Applications on the theme of the underwater world can be done with preschoolers of different ages. Even in the younger group it will not be difficult to create an excellent craft with your own hands. To do this, there are many master classes and step-by-step video lessons designed for beginners. However, this topic is most popular in the older group. Here, applications with fish in an aquarium are made quite often. There are a lot of ideas and templates, so everyone can choose something suitable for children.
Application “Aquarium with fish”
This application is as simple as possible, so it is suitable for classes in both senior and middle groups. Before making blanks, you should select all the necessary materials.
Here you will need:
- colored double-sided paper;
- glue;
- gouache yellow and blue;
- sponge;
- scissors;
- ready-made eyes (sold in craft stores).
First, prepare the background for your aquarium. For this application, the best option would be yellow sand and blue water. Using a sponge, apply gouache evenly onto a white sheet of paper. In the older group, this process can easily be entrusted to children. But the middle group will not do without the help of adults. Prepare elements for the future application. Of course, you can’t do without colorful fish. They can be printed and cut out using a ready-made template. To create a beautiful composition in the aquarium itself, also make corals from brown paper. An excellent addition to the picture will be algae and sea pebbles of different shades. All that remains is to distribute the finished parts throughout your aquarium. Glue the fish evenly around the entire perimeter to make the design bright. Thanks to this step-by-step tutorial, you can make such an unusual aquarium with your older group. Of course, children should like this sea-themed craft. These colorful fish can decorate a group at any time of the year. They will please the eye and create a creative atmosphere around.
Materials for making fish applique
Before you start doing anything, it is important to find out what materials will be needed for the job.
Most crafts are made from paper, so it will become one of the main materials. You will also need cardboard, plasticine and other things that you want to use in your applications (for example: leaves, seeds or buttons).
In addition, to create interesting figures, you will need:
- Scissors;
- PVA glue;
- Pencils;
- Markers.
Undoubtedly, you should also stock up on patience, good imagination and a cheerful mood.
Volumetric applique “Fish under water”
The next craft is more difficult to make. It is more suitable for classes in a preparatory group. Although older preschoolers will be quite capable of such work. The main thing is to give children detailed instructions. It is she who will help kids cope with complex figures.
The volumetric applique itself will be placed in a cardboard box. Shoe packaging, for example, is quite suitable. It is desirable that it be light blue or dark blue. As a last resort, it can be covered with colored paper of a given shade. Thus, it will resemble an aquarium. The inside of the box also needs to be brought into proper shape. Any technique will do here. The main thing is to make a yellow bottom and a blue background. Thus, you will get an almost real aquarium for application with fish. Then everything depends on your imagination. The bottom itself can be covered with real shells. Children from the older group can be assigned a summer task - to collect them on a trip to the sea, for example. Of course, you can make shells yourself from cardboard or fabric. Cut out algae for the aquarium from green paper. Well, the highlight of the application will be, of course, the fish. You can find templates of ready-made sea creatures and print them in color. They must be double-sided. To do this, each figure needs to be printed twice (once in mirrored form). All that remains is to glue them together and tie them to each thread. The fish can be hung from the “ceiling” of your aquarium. They will rotate beautifully, creating the feeling of a real sea world. Children in the older group will definitely like this craft. They will be happy to complete it, following your detailed description. Use a photo to make the instructions more clear. This voluminous applique can be used to decorate a creative corner in a kindergarten.
Fish applique using templates
It is possible to create amazing fish using templates that can act as a stencil, or as a basis for appliqué. Such blanks can be made by simply drawing a silhouette on a sheet of colored paper, or by printing a ready-made picture found on the Internet.
It's very easy and fun to use templates as a basis. The fish is cut out of a sheet, and then it can be decorated and decorated as you please.
Balls of geometric shapes
In the preparatory group, attention can also be paid to children's teamwork. A geometric applique with aquarium fish is perfect here. This craft can also be done with older preschoolers. Children will have fun and review their knowledge of different shapes.
First you need to take care of the background. Cardboard is perfect for it. As in the previous options, make yellow sand and blue water. Complete the aquarium itself with green paper algae. But the fish will be more original. Draw 2 triangles of different sizes adjacent to each other. Cut out figures of the same size from multi-colored paper. Now you can invite the kids of the older group to “launch” the fish into the aquarium. The larger the background itself, the more living creatures you can place on it. It is important that everyone participates in such collective work. You will receive a bright applique of geometric shapes that will appeal to both adults and children. Such useful pastime is always appropriate in older preschool age. And doing these jobs is simple and fun, especially collectively.
Applications from other materials
If desired, you can use any available material. If you take something not quite ordinary, the product will turn out much more interesting. Here are some examples of simple crafts made from a variety of materials.
From leaves
Crafts made from autumn leaves are quite popular and loved. This is because the colorful leaves themselves are beautiful, and when they are folded into a certain composition, they become even more beautiful.
Such products add coziness when they serve as decoration in the home, and also bring a lot of positive emotions and give a good mood. In addition, anyone can handle this craft, as it is not at all difficult to create.
In order to make such an applique, you will need colorful autumn leaves. Before work, you will need to prepare them - rinse them under a weak stream of water, dry them and put them in a thick book so that they dry and straighten.
If you don’t have time to wait for the leaves to dry and straighten out in the book, you can dry them using an iron.
The basis is a piece of cardboard of any color you like, onto which a large orange leaf is attached. This will be the body of the fish. Other leaves, colored red, will become fins and a tail.
After completing the craft, decorate it with various twigs and other natural materials. You need to add algae and other seabed objects to the background.
From seeds, cereals, or pasta
Making fish from seeds is not at all difficult. You just need to follow these steps:
- Select a piece of cardboard of any shade and draw the outline of the future fish on it;
- Take glue and generously coat the entire area inside the outline;
- Now you can stick seeds, cereals, or pasta onto the glue, thereby building the fish itself. It is important to do this carefully so that the product turns out neat and tidy;
- After this, attach an eye made of paper or plasticine. Fins and tail can also be cut out of colored paper of any color.
This application is very interesting and will probably appeal to many children due to its unusual nature.
From buttons
You can make such a figurine yourself using ordinary buttons. You will need a template that is easy to find on the Internet, or you can draw it yourself.
It is painted in any color you like, and then buttons are selected to match it. Then, very evenly and carefully, each of them is glued to the base. This creates a voluminous and wonderful figure. And the remaining buttons are suitable for decoration.
Now that you have learned about so many ways to make your own fish, you can try each of them with your little one. Both he and you will enjoy spending time together doing such an exciting, useful and fun activity.
Fabric goldfish
When talking about appliqués, ideas about various materials always come to mind. Various forms and techniques are used here. This is why older children love this type of needlework so much. They especially like crafts made from fabric. Although preparing for such an application can take a lot of time, it is worth it. Having ready-made stencils, you can get the job done quickly and efficiently.
If you decide to entrust a child of an older group to do this application himself, you need to give him step-by-step instructions and constantly monitor his actions. First you need to cut out the background that will serve as an aquarium for the fish. The deep blue “pocket” shape looks beautiful. Make a contour along the segment along which the child can cut out the aquarium.
Now you can start working on the fish itself. Since it is gold, it is better to make it from fabric in yellow and orange shades. Find a ready-made pattern or create your own stencil according to which your child will cut out the fish. You can also complement the work with sea pebbles of different colors. Glue all the elements to the aquarium.
This is the kind of bright appliqué with a goldfish made of fabric that the kids in the older group will get. It can be used as decoration and even sewn onto some item of clothing or bag, for example.
Accordion-shaped applique
This fish applique from colored paper is also easy to make yourself, and besides, the result will definitely please you. And to achieve it, you need to do the following:
- Take a regular rectangular piece of paper and fold it in half. Then, along the fold line, carefully cut it into a pair of identical parts;
- Fold the resulting part like an accordion, but do not go all the way to the end. Carefully trim off any remaining excess edges;
- Now that the most basic things have been done, you can make the remaining necessary parts from paper of different colors. Therefore, cut out the mouth, eyes, tail, and fins.
All that remains is to glue all the parts together, and then decorate the craft by painting it with felt-tip pens.
Fish stencils for applique
Summary of a lesson on application in the senior group on the topic “Fish in the Aquarium”
Summary of a lesson on application in the senior group on the topic “Fish in the Aquarium.”
Target:
Formation of the ability to convey in applique the image of fish, features of the shape of the body, tail (cutting out in parts).
Tasks:
— Summarize children’s knowledge about the underwater world and fish;
— Develop fine motor skills by using familiar cutting techniques (cutting circles from squares, ovals from rectangles, transforming some geometric shapes into others - a square into several triangles);
— To cultivate perseverance, independence, accuracy, to continue to build self-esteem in students;
Materials:
pictures of fish, a model of an aquarium, blanks of geometric shapes made of cardboard, scissors, glue, threads.
Equipment:
tape recorder, audio recording “The Sound of the Sea”, blackboard.
Progress of the lesson:
- Organizing time.
— Guys, listen to the sounds of nature. (Audio recording “The Sound of the Sea”)
-Where can you hear such sounds? What are these sounds? (These are the sounds of water, sea).
- Who lives in the sea? (Fish, shells, jellyfish, etc.)
- How can you call them in one word? (Marine life)
—What can you call the world in which sea creatures live? (Undersea world)
— Leopold the cat claims that we can admire the underwater world without leaving home, what do you think? (children's answers)
House made of glass, with water,
There is a small garden in It. And shells here and there, Fishes live in the house. What kind of house is this, children?
Who will answer the riddle... (Aquarium)
— Has Leopold the cat prepared a gift for us so that we can admire the underwater world without leaving the group? (There is a model of an aquarium on the table)
— You can go to the aquarium right now and admire the underwater world. (The aquarium is empty, there is no one there).
- What do we do? (Make paper fish yourself).
2. Main part
- Look at the pictures with fish, let's take a look? How are all fish alike? (They have a body, tail, fins)
- Right. What shape is the body? (Oval)
- What shape can the tail be? (Triangular)
- What kind of fins do the fish have? (Triangular, oval, round)
- How many fins do fish have? (Two)
- How are fish different? (Color and shape of tails and fins)
— Today we will make paper fish in order to place them in our aquarium.
— In front of you lie cut out geometric shapes (rectangles, large squares, small squares). What do we need to do with the rectangles to get an oval for the body of the future fish? (The rectangle has rounded corners)
- What will we do with the large square to get a triangle - the tail of the fish? (fold the square diagonally and cut along the fold line)
— How to make a circle of small squares to make an eye for a fish? (Let's cut off the corners of the square)
- Great! We glue the finished figures together and get a fish, thread a thread into each fish and attach it to the aquarium.
— Before we fill the aquarium with fish, let's stretch our fingers.
Finger gymnastics
The fish swims in the water . Two palms together depict swimming movements.
The fish have fun playing. Clap your hands
Fish, fish, mischief, clap their hands
We want to catch you. The palms are clenched into a fist one by one.
The fish arched its back, a smooth movement with each palm.
I took a bread crumb. Grasping movements with a “pinch”.
The fish wagged its tail, Smooth converging and diverging movements with both hands.
She quickly swam away.
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Now our fingers are ready to work. I am sure that with your abilities you will be able to make very colorful and colorful fish, which we will place in our aquarium. Let's get to work.
Practical activities (
The audio recording
“The Sound of the Sea” plays)
(The children begin to cut out. I check whether all the parts are cut out, whether the structure and location of the parts are correctly conveyed. During independent activities, I give the children advice, if necessary, I provide assistance).
3. Summary of the lesson.
- Look what a wonderful sea corner we have created for you! All the fish turned out different, bright, interesting.
— Did you like the lesson?
— What was the most interesting?
— Was it difficult? What was the most difficult?
“I’m pleased with everyone’s work today; everyone did their work with great passion and interest!”
