Although the Great Patriotic War ended 70 years ago, and there are very few eyewitnesses of those events, crafts for May 9 are part of patriotic education and one of the ways to preserve the significance of this day in people's memory and convey to younger generations. There is not much time left before the anniversary of the Great Victory, of course, schools and kindergartens are preparing for this holiday. Which crafts for May 9 can you prepare?
We associate Victory Day with the St. George ribbon, red carnations, the Eternal Flame, old photos, the dove of peace. Of course, postcards are made for this holiday to congratulate veterans, those who are still alive. But not only them, we all congratulate each other on this day, because it cannot be overestimated and there is nothing to compare with in a series of holidays. Children's crafts for May 9 for kindergarten or the youngest students can be made in the form of panels, postcards, layouts. For voluminous postcards and not only for them, you can use carnations made from paper napkins. Prepare napkins, a stapler, glue and a cardboard circle template of a suitable size. Fold the napkin taken out of the pack in half and in half again, you will get a square the size of a quarter of the original.
Sew it with a stapler in the middle. Then cut out a circle from it, as far as the dimensions of the square allow. Next, we collect the napkin in layers, making a kind of half of a pompom out of it. The collected napkin is slightly straightened until a double flower is obtained. If you have scissors with a serrated edge, then the flower will turn out even more realistic. You can also make cuts from the edge to the center of the flower so that there are separate petals. If the flower is used for applique and is located sideways, then you can take fewer layers, say half, so that it is not so voluminous.
In addition to carnations, you can use origami tulips. The corolla of the flower is made of paper, and as a stem, you can use a cocktail tube or a bamboo stick for sushi wrapped in floral tape, smeared with green plasticine or simply painted green with any paint that is at hand - watercolor, gouache or acrylic. Of course, this is not the only possible color option. On postcards, apple blossoms, which are associated with May and spring, or quilling flowers are used as appliqués.
Very interesting images are obtained using stencils and colored sand or colored grits. First, select a drawing with a few large details and prepare templates from it. Using templates, a sheet of paper is smeared in parts with glue and sand or grits of the corresponding color are applied to the glue. Paper crafts May 9- these are postcards made in the form of collages, applications, drawings. Images for collages can be found and cut from magazines or newspapers, found on the Internet and printed on a printer. Models of old military equipment, three-dimensional compositions in the form of the Eternal Flame or battle models are made from paper.
On many crafts by May 9, a three-dimensional star is used, whether it be postcards or compositions. It can be made from cardboard or aluminum sheet from a used beer can. And if the child can handle cardboard on his own, then you will have to help with metal, because there is a danger of cutting your hands. First, cut out the template from thick cardboard, then transfer the template design to the material. Cut out the star. Take a pen with an empty rod and draw along the fold lines with force. Bend the star along the marked lines. If you are working with metal, then correct the product with pliers. Then the aluminum sprocket needs to be sanded, especially the cut lines are sanded, then degreased. After that, put the stars in a box and paint with spray paint in the desired color.
For application, you can use plasticine or pasta painted with paint. For example, flower petals are very well obtained from pasta - shells. Paper crafts May 9 postcards can be made in the form of a soldier's letter - a triangle. The congratulation can be printed on a piece of paper, then folded into a triangle, and decorated with an appliqué on the outside.
Very often, crafts on the theme of May 9 are models of military equipment: aircraft, tanks, ships or submarines, Katyusha rocket launchers. A variety of techniques and materials can be used. For example, cardboard and a cardboard cylinder from toilet paper are suitable for making an airplane. The finished model can be painted with paints.
An interesting option is an airplane made of clothespins and ice cream sticks. To make it, you will need a clothespin, a few popsicle sticks, a button, and glue or a hot glue gun. Glue is better to take quickly hardening. Instead of ice cream sticks, you can use thin thick cardboard. The aircraft rear parts can be made from a single stick by cutting it in half and rounding off the cut edge. The propeller can be made from a stick or cardboard according to a prepared template. All parts are glued, guided by the photo, and then painted with acrylic paints.
The plane can be made from a beer can and cardboard, or entirely from aluminum from beer cans. In this case, you will need bolts and nuts to connect the parts. We will need: templates for aircraft elements made of cardboard or paper, tin sheets from beer cans, scissors, a tablespoon for aligning and bending tin sheets, double-sided tape, a ruler, bolts with nuts for connecting aircraft elements to each other, pliers.
We cut out tin sheets from beer cans, level them with a tablespoon. We cut out the components of the aircraft according to the template from tin sheets. We glue parts of the fuselage with each other, collect the nose. We assemble the wings of the airplane with the help of bolts and nuts. We attach the stabilizer, landing gear and steering wheel to the fuselage. For the manufacture of the chassis, metal bottle caps were used. We fasten the wings to the body with bolts, attach the bow, and the airplane is ready.
TO May 9 DIY crafts tank models are made of paper, corrugated cardboard, plasticine, matchboxes, in general, from a variety of materials. For example, the procedure for manufacturing a tank from two boxes is given. To make it, you will need black and green colored paper, black corrugated cardboard, two boxes of a suitable size, glue, a plastic stick from lollipop caramel or ear cleaning, a suitable button or plastic bottle cap, glue and scissors. It is not difficult to find a matchbox, and if suddenly you do not have a second box of a suitable size, it is easy to cut and glue it yourself from cardboard. We wrap the boxes with green paper and glue the wrapper. Then we glue the small box onto the large one. We have a tank hull. We cut out strips of corrugated cardboard for caterpillars and stick them on both sides of the body. On black paper, using a suitable template or a ruler with holes, draw circles and cut them out. We glue the circles on the sides of the body - the caterpillars are ready. To make a tank barrel, we wrap a plastic stick several times with green paper and glue it along the cut. We glue the edge of the trunk with a strip of black corrugated cardboard. We insert the barrel into the hole made with an awl or knitting needle, the hole should be of such size that it fits tightly. We glue a button or a cap from a plastic bottle on top of the case - this is a hatch. It remains to glue the asterisk. It can be made from red paper or white and painted. You can also simply draw it with a red felt-tip pen or paint using a template. If you're building a larger tank, an interesting hatch solution is a shampoo bottle cap that flips off the top.
By the same principle, you can make a rocket launcher "Katyusha". The car body is made of two boxes. The wheels are cut out of cardboard, you can also adapt plastic bottle caps. The rockets themselves can be made from paper wrapped several times around a pencil, or you can take sharpened pencil pieces painted with a suitable paint, mounted obliquely using a cardboard stand in the rear of the body.
Another cheap material that is always at hand is used. It is from them that the model of the submarine is made. For the body, two different bottles are used, the size is chosen in such a way that one cut-off top with a neck fits snugly into the other. It is possible to duplicate the connection with glue for reliability. The propeller is cut out of plastic from a bottle, put on the neck and secured with a twisted cork. For cutting used the top of the bottle from the spray - glass cleaner. It is glued to the body. A plastic cap larger than a regular bottle cap is glued to the top of the cabin. The two parts at the back of the boat are also cut out of bottle plastic with a slight allowance. A slit is made in the body with a dummy knife, the part is inserted into the slit and additionally glued along the slit contour. Glue must be chosen thick and quickly hardening, suitable for gluing plastic. The finished model is painted with spray paint in a suitable color. You can apply inscriptions to the case using a stencil and a sponge. If you don't have the right glue, use construction tape.
Technique, conventional and modular, presents great opportunities for the manufacture of various crafts. Above, we already talked about how to make a tulip. Origami crafts for May 9 made from modules you can also see in the photo. This is a model of the Eternal Flame and a tank. Orders can be made using the same technique.
Crafts for children May 9 orders can also be made in the form of appliqué, made of salt dough and painted. And, finally, voluminous compositions. Most often they are made in the form of a model of the Eternal Flame or another monument dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The base of the layout is made from a ready-made flat box or glued independently from cardboard. Next, a three-dimensional star is placed on the base. How to do it is described above. The flame can be made of white corrugated paper, which is partially dyed with orange and red paint. You can use a colored mesh, shreds of thick silk or other suitable fabric, colored paper. For the layout, you can make a vertical stele with the date 1941 - 1945, decorate the composition with a ready-made or self-made St. George ribbon. The ribbon is drawn on paper on its own or performed using the appliqué technique from strips of black and orange paper. If you want to make wreaths, then voluminous carnations will come in handy, only you need to make them not a quarter of a napkin, but 4 times smaller. You can also use colored threads - make small pom-poms out of them and stick them on paper. Bouquets of paper flowers are placed on the base of the layout.
Often, monuments dedicated to the Great Patriotic War are tanks mounted on a pedestal. We have already told you how to make a tank, and you can make a pedestal yourself or adapt a suitable box and paste over it with paper of the desired color. If you want to make a model of some kind of war event, for example, a tank battle, tank models can be made from plasticine or matchboxes and plasticine. Trees, houses, explosion fountains can be made from cardboard or other suitable materials. The background can be made in the form of a vertically located application.
Another idea for the holiday is a wreath, the manufacturing technique of which can be seen. She is probably familiar to you from the wreaths that were made for the New Year and Christmas. Only as a material, you can take coniferous or spring branches and decorate them with a St. George ribbon.
By the Day of the Great Victory on May 9, there are many options to express your respect and gratitude to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War, your pride in your Motherland, and patriotism. We bring to your attention various techniques for making fakes, which will be a wonderful gift or decoration for May 9th.
On a postcard, a poster in the form of an application, you can depict festive and military attributes (). For decoration, you can use colored paper, sequins (sequins), threads. For the background of the application, a printout or a newspaper clipping with an article about the surrender of Nazi Germany, about the victory of the USSR, military poems or songs with notes may be suitable. Origami crafts always impress with their visual complexity, but in reality everything is simpler than it seems. By May 9, any work can be decorated with stars, as well as whole modules of paper triangles.triangular module
To create an element, fold the sheet in half lengthwise, then in half widthwise. Turn the workpiece over, bend the corners so that you get a triangle (see picture), bend it in half. The element has 2 corners and 2 “pockets”, thanks to which these modules can be assembled into a complex structure. To do this, insert the corners of one part into the “pockets” of the other. For the strength of the fake, the joints are fixed with glue.
Asterisk element
Cut the paper into 1x26 cm strips. Take one strip, loop one end, tighten slightly. Next, with a long “tail”, wrap the workpiece several times so that you get a regular pentagon. Hide the tip under the strip. Now you need to press on each side of the pentagon so as to form the star itself. Of the many such stars, you can lay out any picture with a mosaic, they will greatly decorate the festive fake.
The basis of the isothreading technique is the ability to perform circular and angular filling. Numerous schemes for isothread are presented on the net.
Salt dough crafts
Cross-stitch, satin stitch, beads, and, in principle, in any way, is a great way to congratulate everyone on the Great Victory. Decorations from ribbons using the kanzashi technique () using the St. George ribbon are more relevant than ever on May 9th.
An important date in the history of the Russian people is approaching - 70 years have passed since the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Millions of dead people, pain, suffering - all this had to endure for humanity in the period from 1941 to 1945. Throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union, special events and competitions of crafts, drawings and other works dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the victory will be held. Special classes should be held in schools and kindergartens, in which children will get acquainted with historical data and hear the stories of veterans.
That is why in this article we have collected the best craft ideas for Victory Day. After looking at the photo, you can prepare visual aids, make for veterans or complete work for an exhibition.
Crochet lovers can make beautiful toys and make layouts out of them. Such crafts are a longer and painstaking work, however, they look very beautiful.
1. knitted soldier. This craft idea will help illustrate the features of the uniform of the Red Army soldiers, and will also look original at the competition of works for the 70th anniversary of the victory.
2. knitted plane. A variety of aircraft models will allow you to create an entire airborne fleet.
Crafts for Victory Day should reflect some historical events. You can illustrate actions on the battlefield or make a model of a devastated village where civilians once lived. Every city has an eternal flame, which is considered a symbol of the memory of fallen soldiers. We offer several options for the layout of the eternal flame with your own hands.
A salute was made from a plastic bottle. Carnations in this craft are made of corrugated paper. The pedestal can be made from a small box or cardboard. To make the composition look like a whole, place it in another box or come up with your own design for a homemade monument.
For work, you will need colored napkins, cardboard, glue and St. George's ribbon. All elements can be cut even by small children.
Modular origami allows you to perform crafts of various shapes at no extra cost. The main thing is to prepare a sufficient number of modules and do the work according to the scheme.
When choosing crafts for Victory Day, decide on the goal: a visual aid, a gift, work for a competition or an open lesson. On our website you can also find detailed information for some crafts by May 9th.
