Mimosa is clearly associated with the spring holiday, International Women's Day. Nowadays, giving a sprig of mimosa on March 8 is no longer so relevant. But once upon a time this plant was brought to all major cities in unimaginable quantities. In general, mimosa is one of the varieties of acacia. In total there are about 1200 species. They mainly grow in Africa, South America and Australia. African varieties have thorns. This is where their name Akis (Greek) comes from - meaning “edge”. By the way, in France at the end of February every year there is a festival in honor of mimosa. It was introduced in the 19th century and has since been found throughout the south of this country. Many people believe that silver acacia is a shrub. It is not always so.
Sometimes the acacia reaches 25 meters in height. Its bark is smooth and dark gray in color. The tree is spreading and evergreen. Covered with bright yellow fluffy balls, and under them there are small silver-green leaves. One of the accessible ways to admire a fluffy tree is to depict it on paper. We will talk about how to draw a mimosa. Let's look at several ways that will allow every person (both the baby and his parents) to feel like a real artist.
How to make mimosa from paper with children: step-by-step description
Step 1. Cut out leaves from paper.
Cut a strip of green paper 2 - 2.5 cm wide along the entire length of a sheet of colored paper, bend it in half along its length. Cut the bent strip into pieces of different lengths (6 -8 cm. Cut out leaves of any shape from green paper.
Step 2. Decorate the mimosa leaves.
- Using a simple pencil, from the fold of the leaf, mark a line up to which the cuts will be made on the mimosa leaves.
— Make small oblique cuts along the entire length, retreating from one another by 1 - 2 mm, starting work from the top of the leaf (at this point you need to be especially careful to make cuts only to the line and not cut the leaf).
- Unfold the leaves.
This is what you can do!
Step 3. Making a mimosa branch.
On a blank postcard made of white cardboard, preliminary lay out the leaves that form a mimosa branch. Lubricate the middle of the leaves on the back side with PVA glue. Glue paper mimosa leaves onto the card blank.
Step 4. Make mimosa flowers from yellow corrugated paper.
Cut yellow crepe paper into small pieces approximately 2.5 - 3 cm in size (they can be of different sizes, just like flowers in nature). Crumple the cut pieces of paper into lumps. Even the youngest children can do this themselves, helping their older brothers and sisters make a card. This exercise is very useful for developing children's fine motor skills.
Step 5. Glue the mimosa flowers onto the card.
Glue the randomly obtained lumps between the green leaves. This way we get a sprig of blooming mimosa.
The postcard is ready! It can be issued in two versions:
- A) You can leave it in the same form as we did in step 5.
- B) Or you can make the leaves more disorderly - as if the wind is blowing on a mimosa branch. To do this, the cuts along the edges of the leaves need to be raised or crushed.
How would you depict a mimosa using paper? Think and make your own card. Success in creative work! Happy coming spring to you!
And in conclusion of this article - another idea on how to make mimosa from paper with children using a different technique. You will not get an applique, but a voluminous sprig of mimosa that can be placed in a vase.
You will find more master classes on making spring crafts with children and flower bouquets from paper in the articles:
Let's try to find out how to draw a mimosa step by step. This is a strange plant that looks like a dandelion crossed with a chamomile. In fact, this is a flower from the legume family, which is usually given as a gift on March 8th to girls, grandmothers, mothers and aunts. Mimosa grows everywhere, so you can walk through the park and pick up a lot of bouquets for your beloved ladies. And those who are afraid to waste money past the cash register can purchase ready-made bouquets. There is no difference, but it can make a man feel rich and cool. I'm not sure whether girls will appreciate such gestures. As for me, they don’t care where the bouquet came from, the main thing is attention.
Mimosa in watercolor
Mimosa flowers are very small and resemble fluffy flowers. They are collected in chic tassels, and the branches look bright and delicate. It is customary to give such bouquets in the spring for International Women's Day; you can also make all kinds of applications, crafts or create drawings. This tutorial shows you how to paint a Mimosa design in watercolor. We must try to convey the color of this unusual plant. It has oblong leaves reminiscent of pine needles, dense bunches of inflorescences consisting of bright yellow lumps. Mature mimosa flowers are darker, and those that have barely bloomed are greenish. It is necessary to use watercolor paints from green to brown to show bouquets of different saturations. Now about how to draw flowers.
For the drawing lesson you will need:
- sheet;
- paints;
- brush (necessarily thin at the end);
- black fine liner;
- water;
- simple pencil.
How to draw a mimosa step by step
A pencil is necessary to outline all the details of the drawing. Show the twig, leaves (move aside the fringe-like strokes), outline the circles - inflorescences located close to each other.
Using the thin tip of the brush, begin to draw the leaves. Use light green paint. Draw a Christmas tree and also draw a stem.
Now soak the brush in light yellow paint and highlight all the round mimosa inflorescences.
Apply a darker green shade to the tip of the brush and go over the leaves again, do the same in the flower area, but use a darker yellow paint.
In some places, add brown spots and dots on the inflorescences.
Once the drawing is set, you need to work out the existing details. Go over the leaves a third time, a third time with a darker shade and continue highlighting the flowers, outlining the circles.
Make the drawing more vibrant. Go over all the lines again, don’t forget to fill the gaps between the leaves and inflorescences with twigs and green hairs.
When the drawing dries, highlight the darkest areas again.
A beautiful mimosa branch has already been drawn in watercolor, but you can additionally highlight the lines with a black liner. Draw the bunches of fluffy creatures with wavy chaotic lines and add dots in the darkest places. Go over the leaves, duplicating the strokes made with watercolors, and show the stem, which you have drawn in dark green. The “Mimosa” watercolor drawing is ready.
How to draw a mimosa with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's make a twig and use circles to mark the places where the flowers will be. Step two. Let's make the contours of the branch clearer, this will convey volume. Step three. Now let's add mimosa petals. Step four. We carefully convey the flowers using strokes.
Natalya Solomatina
Unconventional drawing
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Mimosa branch "
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Secondary speech therapy group No. 2
Teacher Solomatina Natalya Nikolaevna
Implemented educational field “Artistic and aesthetic development”
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Integration of educational areas: “Speech development”
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“Cognitive development”
Non-traditional technique: drawing with cotton swabs
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Goal: to introduce children to an unconventional drawing technique - drawing with cotton swabs
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teach how to draw
small flowers using
cotton swabs
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Objectives: teach how to draw with gouache using a cotton swab
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Preliminary work: looking at illustrations of spring flowers, talking about the coming season and the upcoming holiday, memorizing poems, songs, drawing on a free topic
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Vocabulary work: yellow, golden, fragrant, tender, bright
How to draw a mimosa step by step?
Drawing a mimosa on a piece of paper is not difficult at all. But the process requires some patience. How to draw a mimosa with a pencil step by step? To begin, prepare a sheet of paper, colored pencils, an eraser, hard and soft pencils. Designate a place for flowers and leaves. Using a simple hard pencil you need to draw the contours of the stain. It can be of any shape. It all depends on your imagination. Next, the place where the balls will be located needs to be circled with a circle of any shape. In the place where the leaves will be, you should draw straight lines in different directions. Thinner lines should emanate from them. In the areas intended for flowers, you need to draw a lot of circles and use zigzag strokes to give them volume. Drawing leaves is even easier. On the small lines coming from the branch, draw short strokes. Things will go faster if you draw strokes without lifting your hands, in a zigzag manner. This way you need to display all the leaves.
How to make a mimosa flower with your own hands for children from napkins: diagram, description, photo
Napkins are also an excellent material for making mimosa flowers. With their help you can make both applique and artificial flowers. To do this, you need to make leaves and small yellow flowers-balls themselves.
Instructions:
- To do this, you need to take a yellow napkin, fold it like an accordion and tie it in the middle with thread.
- After this, you need to use scissors to cut the resulting accordion into strips, not completely. That is, the place that is connected with thread must not be touched or cut. After this, you just need to straighten the leaves and the resulting small ribbons into rectangles. You will end up with a fluffy ball. This will be the mimosa flower.
- Now there are several options for flower design. The flowers themselves can be glued onto prepared A4 sheets, decorated with green leaves from napkins, or made into full-fledged yellow flowers. But to do this, you need to take a thin wire, wrap it in green napkins coated with glue, and glue yellow flowers, imitating a mimosa sprig.
mimosa flower from napkins
How to make a mimosa flower with your own hands for children from fabric: diagram, description, photo
A sprig of mimosa can be made not only from napkins and corrugated paper, but also from fabric. The simplest option is to use thread or fur. To make a mimosa sprig from fur, choose yellow faux fur.
Instructions:
- Cut small circles from yellow fur
- Walk a thin needle around the perimeter of the circle and tighten it with thread
- You will get cute yellow balls.
- Now they can be attached to the branch
mimosa flower from fabric
Mimosa from fabric can be made by felting. For this you will need felt and special needles. The fact is that this technique requires some experience and certain skills. You can see how to do this in the video.
Another great option for making mimosa for children is to use wool or acrylic threads. In order to make a flower ball, you need to take ordinary scissors and wind a bunch of threads around them. After this, take a needle and thread and pull it through a loop of thread. It is necessary to tie the thread that was pulled through the loop. After this, a bundle made of acrylic or woolen threads is cut with scissors. You will end up with cute yellow balls. The technique is similar to making a pompom for a hat.
How to make a mimosa flower with your own hands for children from foam rubber: diagram, description, photo
A good option for crafting a mimosa sprig for children is to use foam rubber. This option is suitable for the youngest children who go to a junior or nursery group in the garden.
Instructions:
- To make a twig you will need foam rubber, which is painted with yellow watercolor. You can initially take yellow foam rubber for work.
- Using regular office scissors, cut the colored foam into small cubes.
- All you have to do is glue the resulting cubes to an A4 sheet, having previously glued the leaves and stems to it.
foam mimosa flower
Craft for March 8: cotton wool mimosa
You can make a sprig of mimosa using regular non-sterile cotton wool or cotton pads.
Instructions:
- To do this, take cotton wool and tear it into small pieces of approximately the same size. Rub between your palms and roll the cotton into balls.
- To color the balls yellow, use watercolor paint or gouache. You don't have to take a brush for this.
- You can simply make a concentrated dye solution and dip cotton balls into it.
- Place the balls on clean paper and let them dry. After this, you need to glue the balls with PVA glue to the prepared layout.
- Pre-glue the stem and green leaves made from corrugated paper.
March 8
How to draw a mimosa on a postcard? Everything is very simple here. A sprig of mimosa can be made in the shape of the number “8”. To do this, you need to draw a three-dimensional figure eight on the top side of the postcard with a simple pencil. Further from the number you need to draw branches on both sides. They will look better if you make them asymmetrical. On the drawn figure eight, you need to depict mimosa balls using yellow gouache. Next, take light brown paint and fill the space between the balls with it. Then color the branches green. The postcard is ready. All that remains is to write a congratulatory verse.
Mimosa sprig - DIY craft for kindergarten: best ideas, photo for a gift for mom
Often before International Women's Day, kindergartens organize methodological classes, during which the teacher, together with the children, makes cute appliqués to congratulate mothers with mimosa branches. A great option to develop fine motor skills in children.
To do this, you can use toilet paper, cotton wool or corrugated paper. The most affordable option is to use toilet paper. Despite the fact that this material is common and inexpensive, it can be used to make cute appliques. For this, it is better to choose white paper or paper towels.
In order to make cute flower balls, you need to tear the paper into pieces and roll small balls between your palms. After this, the balls are painted with yellow paint. For this, gouache or watercolor is used. After the balls have dried, they are glued to previously prepared blanks.
Below are the cutest and simplest options for making a mimosa sprig for preschool children.
Making a sprig of mimosa is quite simple. You need to be patient and use the simplest items.
Gouache
If we talk about how to paint a mimosa with paints, then everything is simple here too. Prepare jars of gouache, cotton swabs, brushes of different sizes, a sheet of paper and a cloth to wipe your tools and hands. Take a wide brush and wet the sheet with water. Next, with the same brush you need to make several strokes with green and blue colors of different shades. There should be a lot of paint. Then paint over the entire sheet with the paint already applied. No need to wait for it to dry. Take a skewer or brush and, with the back of the cutting, mark mimosa branches from which small stems will emanate at an angle of 45°. If you don’t like something, you can simply paint over everything and start over. Next, you can take a little dark yellow or light brown paint on your little finger and apply circles to the branches. Then, using a cotton swab with orange paint on it, you must also apply circles. Change the stick and apply yellow balls in the same way. If desired, you can add just a few white dots. The drawing is ready. You can draw such a mimosa either independently or with your child. He'll really like it.
