Autumn is a fertile time of the year that gives people delicious fruits. In addition to obtaining benefits for the body and saturating it with vitamins, they bring aesthetic pleasure. After all, in the autumn there is an opportunity to dream up and show creativity in the manufacture of crafts for the fair to school.
Every year, elementary schools organize exhibitions of works made from natural materials. Applied fruits, vegetables, natural material. Children receive a charge of emotions, the joy of creativity. Showing imagination, the guys learn to process vegetables, carefully act with a knife, cut out the necessary details.
Parent help
Many parents believe that the child completed the school task well, you need to help him, and some even do everything for their children. I would like to say to such "caring" mothers that they are raising a non-initiative member of society, which will be very regretted later. But it will be too late.
How can parents help right? Let's give a couple of tips. Of course, the first time a teacher receives such a task, the child may be confused. After all, he had never done crafts at the school fair. It is necessary to reassure him, to say that it is absolutely easy, to offer a lot of different options for crafts from fruits, leaves, twigs and other natural material.
When a child considers crafts photos for an autumn fair at a school, pay attention to details, the sequence of work. Say that this is not difficult at all, let the baby feel that he will be able to do it on his own, as he is already a schoolboy. You also need to talk about the rules for handling a knife.
Preliminary work
The help of parents also consists in purchasing the necessary materials. After the child has chosen the theme of crafts at the school fair, he decided on what the work will be done from, you need to go to the market for vegetables. In addition to them, we still need materials that will hold the parts together. To do this, you can buy a set of toothpicks made of wood, skewers for barbecue are useful. They are denser and longer than toothpicks. You can use dry, even twigs.
Before starting work, you can advise the child to practice for the first time by first making such a figure home. Children like to fantasize, so it’s possible to make some changes to the chosen option, or maybe even come up with something unique.
Cabbage Smesharik
A very simple version of crafts at the school fair, which is also cute and loved by children, is Smesharik. It can be made from a whole head of cabbage, two potatoes, onions and olives.
You need to take cabbage, tear off all the leaves that are puffing, leaving a smooth ball. From the torn leaves at the end, it will be possible to attach ears on the crown for a bunny. Further, by deeply piercing a head of cabbage, two potato legs on skewers are attached from below.
Before you start working with potatoes, you need to wash and dry them well. Next, you need to peel a small onion and cut it in half. Visually choosing places for future eyes, we chop the onion halves on the toothpicks so that the sharp edges stick out from the onion. Then they put on chopped pitted olives in half. Instead of olives for these purposes, you can take some dark berries. If there is still black currant on sale, then it fits perfectly. Or use grapes for the eyes and nose. You can draw a mouth with ketchup or cut out a strip of carrots and pin it on two sides with toothpicks. Ears - a cabbage leaf divided in half. To ears sticking up, you can substitute under the middle of the sticks, as in the photo.
Potato Man
For such crafts at the autumn fair, you need to buy one salad pepper of any color, radish, large and small potatoes, lemon. A large detail is the head, which is placed with toothpicks on small potatoes cut in half. Then you need to clean the pepper. It is better to buy round rather than long vegetables, then the shape of the ears and eyebrows will be suitable. They are also attached with chopsticks from a set of toothpicks. The hair on the head is made of several branches of parsley, which are inserted into a cut-out recess in the center of the apex.
The eyes are made from a shallow, oblong radish, cut in half, and the mouth - from a large, cut into thin strips. With a knife you need to cut a smile. The mouth can also be made from tomato, only cut out the core so that the juice does not leak. The nose is made from the skin of a lemon (as in the photo). Or you can come up with your own version, for example, from carrots or parsley root.
Lamb
As a craft for a charity fair at school, you can make a large sheep from dense cauliflower. Additionally, you need to buy champignons and seeds of flax for the eyes. Ears can be made from parsley or celery root.
Cauliflower should be placed with the stalk down, trimming it evenly, so that there is an impression that these are the legs of a lamb. If this does not work out, then the legs can be made from other vegetables, for example, carrots or pumpkins. They will be brighter. For the head in the photo, champignon mushroom inserted inside the cabbage was used. In order for the mushroom to take this position, you need to carefully cut one inflorescence of cabbage with a knife. And in the formed recess, insert the mushroom with the back side, so that the leg looks out. The nose-leg is recommended to sharpen a little, giving shape.
It remains only to attach grains-eyes and ears. They can simply be deeply pressed. If they do not hold, then replace with any other material, for example, cut strips of carrots and stick them into the body of the fungus so that they look out on the end part.
As many small crafts for the school fair, you can make a whole flock of sheep from cauliflower. To do this, you need to divide the inflorescence into small parts and from each make this a cute animal. Only instead of mushrooms use, for example, black olives for the head and cut sticks from the root of parsley for the feet.
Vegetable flowers
For the autumn fair at the school, vegetable crafts may be flowers lying on a paper or plastic plate. You will need tomato, carrots, corn, cucumber, olives, spinach leaves and sprigs of celery.
First, spinach leaves of the same shape are selected and laid out in the center of each flower, with the tops of the leaves along the edges, like the sun. These will be the petals of our flowers. The middle is cut from a tomato. A thin slice should be cut. It is desirable that it contains more pulp and less juicy core. The stalk and leaves are made from celery branches. In order to make the flowers extraordinary, in the middle of each of them funny faces are made. Eyes - round slices of cucumbers or zucchini, on which you need to put black olives, cut in half. The mouth is represented by strips of carrots, and the teeth are made from corn kernels. Everything, the masterpiece is ready!
Cucumber machine
As crafts for the autumn fair, you can bring to school not only animal figures, but also perform work in the form of a machine. We use cucumber or zucchini. The product is pretty easy to make, so even a first grader can make it.
From a whole long cucumber make the car body. For a radish driver, you need to cut a round hole in the middle. The wheels are circles of cucumber or zucchini. Attach them to one toothpick, piercing the cucumber through and through. You can add yellow headlights by cutting them out of pepper, and the “feet” in the back from carrots. The driver can be made from any other vegetables, showing imagination.
Racing car
This DIY craftsmanship for a school fair is rather complicated. To do this, you need to strictly adhere to the instructions and consult the image in the photo. This craft can be performed by older children.
It is made from corn, red onions, beets, tomatoes, green beans. Also used are broccoli, mushrooms, cabbage leaves and cucumber.
The hood of the machine - small corn - is installed in front. The front wheels — thick slices of onions — are inserted onto toothpicks that have haricot bean pods on. The rear axle of the car is made in the same way, only a long wooden skewer is used, in the middle of which a beet and cucumber spoiler is attached. So that he does not fall back, but keeps in his place, a broccoli inflorescence is inserted in the middle. Cucumber is attached with a toothpick to it.
The driver's cab is simply located in the middle. It does not need to be fixed, but the work must be placed immediately on a dish or tray so that it does not move. When transported to the place of the fair, the parts can move, so that the middle can be positioned already in place. To do this, prepare chopped tomatoes and put on the bottom of the cab. The sides consist of several layers of bean pods worn on two toothpicks on each side. The mushroom driver is placed on a soft seat made of greenery. Looks like such a difficult job perfectly. Although it’s not easy to do it.
Penguin family
For crafts for the autumn fair in elementary school, a child can make several penguins on his own. Making them easy. It is necessary to cut the zucchini in half and with a knife carefully cut the muzzle on the skin along with the bright part of the abdomen, as in the photo. It remains only to attach a carrot nose and eyes, for which you can use dry peas or allspice. Instead of paws, carved circles of carrots are inserted.
To make the characters different from each other, their figures are supplemented with various small details. One has a carrot hat, the girl has a bow on her head. For a character with a butterfly on his chest, you can make a sled. For the seat, you can use a cabbage stump or a slice of celery root. The last character was given a spear.
Pumpkin cat
To make crafts from vegetables to the school fair, you can use a pumpkin. It is advisable to choose a small and smooth vegetable. A cat's body will be made from pumpkin. Instead of a head, an apple planted for a fortress on several skewers is used. Further work begins on small details. Ears, nose, tail and legs are made from cut pieces of carrots. Round eyes can be cut out of cucumber.
But the mustache in the photo looks a little wretched. You can refresh the work by making a mustache from a denser natural material so that they do not sadly hang down, but stand upright. It is optimal to use green branches without leaves (dill, parsley, basil or celery). To prevent thin living twigs from breaking, it is recommended to use dried or pre-stick stick a hole in the apple, and only then insert them.
Eggplant Zebra
Crafts for the Good Fair at school, made from eggplant, will look beautiful. They turn out bright, contrasting and brilliant. It’s easy to make the zebra presented in the photo, you just need to beautifully cut the stripes. To make it convenient for the child to cut, dad can offer to use a chisel instead of a knife. Bends of patterns on the body of a zebra can be pre-drawn with a marker.
When the most difficult work is done, you need to wipe the strips with lemon juice so that they always remain bright and do not darken with time. The head is represented by a whole eggplant, which must be firmly attached to the body. The body of the animal must reliably rest on the surface of that stand, where the craft will be located. Therefore, the lower body is evenly trimmed with a knife. But for the head it is necessary to make an inclined incision so that it looks down. Two eggplants are fastened together with long wooden skewers.
Then add small details. Olive eyes are attached with toothpicks. But the ears are made of dark basil leaves.
Output
Before choosing what crafts to do at the school fair, you need to look at various options. In addition to those presented in this article, you can come up with many more. You can use the gifts of autumn in full force. After all, there are still squash, yellow zucchini, zucchini, beets, which have a bright saturated color, multi-colored salad peppers, which will add the necessary shades to the product. It is orange, red, green, yellow.
You can, while walking with the child in the market, look at the vegetables sold and fantasize. Maybe among the heap of potatoes scattered in a mess one piece of an interesting shape, for example, with a small ball attached to the side, has grown. There are peppers or carrots, similar to figures with a long nose due to the fact that they have formed a natural process.
Maybe creative ideas will come in the course of the purchase, because interesting thoughts appear suddenly in my head. The main thing is to give the child time to prepare, not to rush him and not to force him to do the craft according to the pattern.
Even if we add our small details to the idea suggested by others, arrange the work in a different way, the individuality of the student will be manifested, it will be seen that he really reacted to the task in good faith, and not just sketched the finished one.
Fantasy, try, surprise classmates with your imagination! The main desire! And the rest is sure to succeed.