Application in the middle group “Boats float on the river”: how to use the lesson in an interesting way

The marine theme is simple and concise. This is a popular trend in paper arts and crafts. A boat applique, made together with children, can become the central figure for decorating a photo zone or the decoration of a themed birthday party. Applique is considered the easiest way to create crafts. Creative activities with children, in addition to a pleasant pastime, contain educational and developmental tasks.

• How ship appliques are made
• Required materials and tools
• Types of boats with instructions on what can be made
• Application for children “Sailboat”
• Volumetric applique submarine
• Applique boat on a stand
• Video master class
• Templates for printing and cutting
• Assembling geometric shapes with children
• Tips for working on applications with preschoolers

Preparation for the application “Boats float on the river”

The success of an application lesson largely depends on its preparation. And here the leading role, of course, belongs to the teacher. After all, in the middle group, the guys still cannot prepare parts on their own.

Suitable materials

First of all, to create a composition you will need a base - a sheet of white A5 paper. The teacher also prepares colored paper for each child:

• long narrow stripes of blue, dark blue or gray (to create the image of a river) or ovals of the same colors (lake);
• paper rectangles of different colors (base for boats) of different sizes (approximate size 7X3 cm);
• scraps of colored paper for decorating boats (flags, portholes, etc.).

You can play with the base in a more interesting way - use blue or light blue cardboard, and give the traditional rectangle wavy edges. This will give the impression that the boat is actually rocking on the waves.

You can play with the base in an interesting way - give a traditional rectangle wavy edges

Of course, to work, preschoolers need scissors, glue, brushes, oilcloths and napkins.

Techniques and techniques used

Students in the middle group begin to work with scissors - they learn to cut parts in a straight line, as well as round corners. To create the look of a boat, you need to cut the corners on one side so that the rectangle turns into a trapezoid.

The preschooler's task is to cut off the corners of a rectangle so that it turns into a trapezoid

If the boat is supposed to have a sail, it can be designed in the form of a triangle or semicircle. In the first case, the child cuts a square diagonally, in the second option, the resulting part needs to round the corner, turning it into a semicircle.

To create a sail, the child will need to cut a triangle from a square, and then transform this figure into a semicircle

A semi-oval can also be obtained by cutting off the corners of a rectangle.

You can make a sail from a rectangle, turning it into a semi-oval

First, the teacher clarifies the shape of each part and demonstrates a sample. Children move their hand along the imaginary outline of an object in the air.

The finished boat can be decorated with a flag (triangle).

The finished compositions in the traditional version look something like this

When all the details are cut out, the teacher pays attention to the composition, discusses with the children how to beautifully arrange the boat on the base, depending on their number - one, two or three. After this, the skills of careful gluing are practiced: you need to apply the glue with a brush carefully, in a small amount, with the part being positioned with the colored side down.

Video: boat made of geometric shapes (process of application)

Unconventional applique

You can depict boats floating on the river not only using traditional techniques. Preschoolers can successfully use cut-out appliqué by creating an image from small pieces of randomly sized paper that are torn off by hand.

You can depict a boat using the broken applicative technique

Alternatively, this method can only depict a river or lake.

In the breaking technique you can only depict water

An interesting idea is to make a boat using the origami technique. You need to take the simplest option, when the image is obtained by folding a square and bending its edge. And the work will be complemented by waves from a satin ribbon (the child can easily glue it on, following the teacher’s instructions).

A sailboat can be made very easily using the origami technique, and waves made from satin ribbon will make the composition even more original

Unusual waves can be created from pieces of crumpled napkins. To do this, it is torn into small pieces, and lumps stick together. Another option is to crumple the napkin with your hands to form a flagellum, and then unfold it a little and glue it.

Interesting waves can be made from a crumpled napkin

A similar method is good for depicting clouds in the sky (cotton wool is also suitable for this).

Video: a boat with voluminous sails, sea foam made of cotton wool (the parts are prepared by an adult, and the child glues them on)

What can be added to the application?

Additional visual techniques will help you create an original composition of boats. So, the waves that rock the boat can be painted with watercolors or brighter gouache.

Waves can be painted with watercolors or gouache

Plasticineography also goes well with applique. Thus, plasticine can be used to represent the mast and portholes of a boat, as well as sea waves and a bright yellow sun in the sky.

Applique and plasticineography complement each other perfectly

Individualization of tasks

In fine arts classes, it is imperative to use an individual approach. So, for children who are not yet very good at handling scissors, you can offer to make only boats (hulls), and for those who are already good at cutting out parts - boats with a sail.

During the applique class, the teacher should actively encourage the manifestation of children's activity and creativity. Some children cope with any work quickly, so they definitely need to complicate the task even more - offer to supplement the composition with details: for example, cut out the sun and clouds from paper or decorate their boat with details. You can also give paints so that the child can depict rain or fish looking out of the water.

There are many options here. The main thing is to captivate the child so that his interest in creativity only becomes stronger.

Some children quickly and efficiently cope with basic work; they definitely need to be given additional tasks in order to maintain interest in creativity

Cardboard ship: how to make it yourself

Children and parents are often asked to bring joint crafts to school on a given topic. It’s not difficult to come up with a cardboard craft on a marine theme. The ship can be made in one evening, taking an old equipment box.

Materials:

• Thick cardboard - old box
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Glue
• Scotch
• Colored paper
• Decor

Print or draw a template. Transfer it to cardboard

Cutting out parts from cardboard

Assembling the ship using glue and tape

Dilute the PVA glue with water, tear the paper into pieces and soak it in the glue. Glue the pieces to the ship blank

You can paint the ship and cover it with colored paper.

Also make a mast from a plastic tube or wooden skewer. Don't forget that every ship must have a flag. Make sails out of cardboard.

And if you recently bought a refrigerator or other large household appliance, then you can make a large ship out of cardboard to the delight of any boy.

Ship made of cardboard and paper

Cardboard is a very convenient material for crafts, and colored paper will help make the craft bright and attractive. In order for the work to turn out beautiful and neat, use good scissors that will not tear the cardboard, but will make a beautiful and even cut. If it is too early for a child to use sharp scissors, then parents can do it for them.

Toilet paper rolls are also actively used in crafts due to their shape.

Composition options based on theme

According to the visual arts program for the middle group, an application on the theme “Boats float on the river” is offered to preschoolers in October. The composition options are designated as “Fishing boats went to sea” and “Yachts on the lake”.

However, this lesson can be carried out in the spring, connecting the theme with spring streams, along which it is so fun to float paper boats (“A paper boat floats along a stream”).

You can make such an applique for Defender of the Fatherland Day - let it be a warship sailing on the waves, which the children will present as a gift to dad.

The lesson can also be associated with reading V. Suteev’s fairy tale “The Boat”, designating the topic as “A Boat for Animals”. This will be a more fabulous option, and instead of a sail, the teacher can offer each child a fresh or dried leaf of a tree.

The application can be timed to coincide with the reading of the fairy tale “The Ship” by V. Suteev and create the same image

Video: cartoon “Boat” (1956)

How to make a ship out of wood with your own hands

A wooden boat is every boy's dream. Together with your dad or grandfather, you can carve the simplest version of a boat.

To preserve the wood longer, you can paint the top or varnish it.

Motivating start to class

In order for a child to do work with joy, he must be motivated. This can be done in different ways, for example, using a game character who comes to the children for class and asks for help.

This could be Leopold the cat. The hero reports that he was invited to visit the little mice, but they live far away. To reach them, you need to cross a wide river. And for this you need a boat. Of course, the kids will enthusiastically get to work to help the cat.

Some famous character, for example, Leopold the cat, comes to the guys and asks for help - they need to make him a boat

Another option is a telegram from Doctor Aibolit. Sick animals are waiting for him in Africa. But to go there, you need a ship with sails (after all, it’s a long way to sail).

You can start the lesson with a riddle to intrigue the children. For example, this option:

• A cap is floating along the river From a huge soldier The guys are waving their oars It’s not a cap, it’s... (a boat)

What follows is a discussion of what geometric shape the boat most resembles (a rectangle because it is long). As a result, the teacher invites the children to make their own boats.

Another way is for the teacher to invite the kids to use their imagination and draw a picture based on the poem. The poem “Ship” sounds:

• The boat sailed on the waves, the sail was rushing towards the clouds. The waves rose towards the side and crashed against the ship. Svetlana Sirena (Kotlyar)

Then a conversation is held on the poem, after which the children begin the creative process - creating an image of a paper boat.

You can start a conversation about spring, about how fun it is to launch boats along streams when the sun warms everything around with its warm rays.

To maintain the interest of preschoolers in the topic of application, the teacher must conduct appropriate finger gymnastics or physical education.

Table: finger gymnastics “The wind walks across the sea...”

Table: physical education (based on a poem by A. Barto)

Summary of an open lesson on artistic and aesthetic development “Boat”

Summary of an open lesson on artistic and aesthetic development

Application on the theme “Boat”

.Integration of educational areas:

cognitive development, speech development, artistic and aesthetic development, social and communicative development. Program content: Activate and diversify the technique of working with paper: learn to tear paper (napkin) and crumple it (with a lump and a flagellum), stick an image according to the plan. Introduce children to an excerpt from the poem “Boat.” Arouse interest in creating an image. Develop imagination, sense of composition, fine motor skills. Cultivate interest in visual arts and accuracy when performing work.

Equipment:

Sheets of blue colored paper, white and blue napkins, a boat, a sail, a sun cut out of colored paper (according to the number of children). Equipment for application.

Progress of the lesson:

Educator: Hello, children. How beautiful and elegant you are today. Look, we have guests today. Say hello to them. Everyone look at them. We looked. Well done! Now listen to me carefully.

Guys, today we will try to create a picture. Yes, not simple. The poem will tell us what will be depicted in the picture. Listen to it and try to imagine everything you hear about.

Reading the poem "Boat"

Today I came to the river, Ship

in my hand. Let him sail to Wonderland, say hello to his friends, He will see many countries, He will go far across the ocean To meet the icebergs and the sun, But he will definitely return!

Tell me what you imagined when you listened to the poem? So, what should be depicted in our picture? After all, in the dark we would not be able to see either the boat, or the sail, or the sea, or the clouds.

And before we start working with paper and glue, let's practice our fingers. Let's play a finger game.

A physical education session is held:

Seagulls are circling over the waves, Let's fly after them together, Splashes of foam, the sound of the surf, And above the sea - you and I! (children wave their hands).

We are now sailing on the sea. And we frolic in the open space. Have fun rowing and catching up with the boat (children row with their hands).

There are sheets of paper in front of you. What color are they? Blue like the sky. This is where we will place the sun in the sky. Find the “sun” among other elements of our picture. How did you guess that this was it? That's right, it's round and yellow. Attach it to the top of the sheet. Now stick it on.

Guys, take a piece of blue napkin in your hands and crumple it with both hands like this (demonstration) to make a flagellum. Now expand the flagellum a little. We got sea waves. Now you need to smear glue on the bottom of the sheet (located vertically) and apply waves of crumpled blue napkin to the glue.

What words did the poem begin with? "The boat sailed on the waves." We have waves, now we need to make a boat. Place the boat on the blue napkin so that it is clear that the boat is floating on the wave. Happened? Then glue the boat. I remind you that the boat needs to be placed on oilcloth with the colored side down and coated with glue. Then we carefully take it, place it on top of the waves and carefully press it with a napkin.

Now all that remains is to glue the sail. Yes, our boat is not simple, but with a sail. This type of boat is called a “sailboat”. Remember: a sailboat is a ship with sails. Repeat this word and remember it. What needs to be done to make the boat we pasted become a sailboat? Glue on the sail. And we'll do it like this. The teacher shows exactly how to position the triangle - the sail - with an acute angle upward.

And what is missing in our picture is clouds. Let's make two clouds. Take a white napkin in your hands and tear it into two parts. Crumple each piece, but not too much, so that you get clouds. In which part of our picture will we glue the clouds? Up there, where the sky is.

So our picture is ready. Let's remember once again the poem that helped us create such a wonderful picture. Those who remember the words of this poem can recite them with me. Today I came to the river, Ship

in my hand. Let him sail to Wonderland, say hello to his friends, He will see many countries, He will go far across the ocean To meet the icebergs and the sun, But he will definitely return!

Now, while the glue on our work dries, let's dance.

Dynamic pause music about a sailing boat

After the lesson, you can learn the poem “Boat” with the children and arrange an exhibition of children’s works.

Photo gallery of finished works - ideas for teachers

The application is combined with gouache painting and plasticineography

The applique is combined with drawing with wax crayons. A combination of applique (boats made using origami) and drawing (the sky and reeds)

Original waves are made from strips using the breaking technique

Simple origami, which is complemented by drawing

Application in the form of a postcard for dad with original waves (the teacher prepares them)

A broken applique with filling in a drawn template. Children fill in the drawn outline with pieces of paper; sails made from bright fragments look colorful

Applique classes should practice and improve the visual skills of preschoolers, as well as expand their horizons and knowledge about the shape of surrounding objects. Thus, the theme of a boat or a boat sailing along a river can be played out in a very interesting way, using the right motivation and using unusual materials.

How to make a ship out of shells with your own hands

Did you bring a lot of shells from the sea? They can be used and beautifully decorated by making a boat out of shells. Resorts sell ready-made souvenirs in the form of ships made of shells, but it is much nicer to put on a shelf a craft made by your child.

Materials:

• Big shell
• Small shells
• Super glue
• Braid

Come up with a diagram of your ship.

Place several shells in a row with a toothpick. It will look more beautiful if you arrange the shells according to size - wider at the bottom and smaller at the top.

Lubricate a toothpick with glue and attach the shells. Let's leave it to dry.

Let's attach these sails to a large shell. The base of the toothpick should be generously coated with glue.

We use a chain or gold braid. We wrap it around the mast. To ensure that the boat stands level, you can glue a large shell onto a piece of wood or a flat stone.