Lyubov Fedotova
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Pancake week- this is an ancient Slavic holiday (pagan, which is popular in our time. It is seeing off winter and meeting spring, waiting for warmth, light, comfort in nature. Festive festivities last a week. An indispensable attribute of Maslenitsa are pancakes Sun- a symbol of that very comfort and warmth, and, of course, fun.
Previously, it was believed that if a person did not celebrate Maslenitsa well, then the year for him would be unsuccessful.
As I said earlier, fun goes hand in hand with light and warmth, that is, with the sun.
The sun is round as a pancake
Smiling shines.
We are glad to meet him warmly
Adults and children.
I bring to your attention master - class "Sun"
which the kids and I did yesterday. And what is most surprising, when we started making the craft, it was cloudy, and when the children made the sun, they noticed that it was sunny outside too.
So, let's begin.
This craft is easy to make, done quickly and all children work out! There is also no great preparation for a teacher.
For work you will need:
Colored cardboard (yellow);
Colored paper (yellow, blue, red, black, white);
Scissors;
Glue stick;
Simple pencil;
Black felt-tip pen;
A saucer or small plate.
Work description:
1. Circle the plate on the back of the yellow cardboard, add rays (I did it myself)
Cut out the sun.
2. Circle the plate again on a piece of yellow paper, cut and cut in half. Take one half and cut with scissors, then twist with scissors - this is the hair. Glue them to the sun at the base of the rays.
3. Cut eyes out of white paper. Pupils are made of blue paper. From black paper - cilia (cut and twist the squares like hair)
Cut the mouth out of red paper, folding it in half to make it more evenly
4. Draw cheeks and a nose in the sun itself with a black felt-tip pen.
5. Glue eyes with cilia on the cheeks
Glue the mouth. Draw freckles with a felt-tip pen.
6. Cut out of blue paper and glue a bow on the hair.
Our sun is ready!
And we have how many of them!
Two identical suns do not work - each is individual, but each turns out to be very kind. The children were greatly delighted by the drawing of the cheeks and nose with a felt-tip pen (it is surprising that they all turned out very similarly). The parents were also delighted - all the works were taken home! (Often children try to do their craft, but the work remains on the locker, and the sun was taken away - "to improve the weather in the house," one dad said).
A mischievous, cheerful holiday
Rebirth of the sun
Good luck to you, a sea of happiness,
Our congratulations!
This is Shrovetide - a fairy
I went around houses and yards.
So let's hurry
Accept her gifts!
And she gives you happiness.
Many victories in life
Delivering from bad weather,
And letting luck follow!
The Shrovetide holiday is associated with the wires of winter and prepares people to meet the spring. Earlier, crafts for Shrovetide to school were not as common as for other holidays. If your child was asked to bring a craft to school for the holiday, but there are no ideas, look for them in our article.
Sun from the palms
Materials:
- Paper
- Scissors
- Paints
- Brush
Trace your palm on the paper. Make several copies and cut along the outline. Color the handprints with paints. Cut a circle out of paper and paint with yellow paint. Glue your palms in a circle in the form of sun rays.
Postcard made of paper
We will need:
- Colored paper
- Scissors
- Markers
- Make the sun out of colored paper. To do this, cut a circle out of yellow paper and glue the rays.
- Make two accordions out of any color of colored paper. Glue the top of one together to form a doll skirt.
- Bend the second accordion in half and glue it to the top of the first, it turned out to be hands.
- Cut out a circle for the head from paper, draw a face with a felt-tip pen.
- Decorate the doll with a piece of cloth. Glue the resulting doll to the sun.
- A postcard with several dolls will look more spectacular.
Spikelets sun
Materials:
- Cardboard
- Ears of wheat
- Scissors
- Hot glue
Cut out the base from the cardboard. Stick ears of wheat on it, imitating the rays of the sun. Decorate with natural material.
Corn scarecrow
You will need:
- Corn cob
- Corrugated paper
- Dried or artificial flowers
- Hot glue
- Threads
Attach a corrugated paper skirt to the corncob with threads. Decorate with flowers. We complete the image of the stuffed animal by attaching the eyes and mouth.
There is nothing difficult in making crafts. The main thing is the availability of the necessary materials at hand, skillful hands and a little imagination. And if you have problems with imagination, our article is at your service.
The bright Shrovetide that came to us from antiquity brings not only the "birth" of the sun, Yaril, but also warmth, spring, fun and laughter, the willingness to start field work again for the joy of ourselves and our entire family!
Children are always very sensitive to everything that brings light, joy, sincerity, and from the Maslenitsa holiday they expect not only blush-cheeked pancakes and a fire show, but also any pleasant surprises!
So let's make fun Shrovetide crafts for our children together with you!
The first craft will be the sun, named Yaril in Old Slavonic!
And this craft-amulet is made from ordinary knitting threads and bright ribbons!
You can make "Yarilo" together with your children - it will be more fun and interesting!
So let's get started!
Prepare the following materials for the craft - the sun:
- Sections of bright satin ribbons of different colors, 0.5 cm wide;
- Bright yellow woolen threads for the sun;
- A circle of cardboard of approximately the same diameter as you intend to make the craft;
- PVA glue;
- Shilo, or gypsy needle;
- Pieces of blue and red, blue and pink colored paper for the eye, mouth and nose, respectively.
We start to create:
1. We take an awl in our hands and make a small hole with it in the very center of the cardboard circle;
2. Now we take and cut the yellow yarn into the same length of thread. To determine how long the threads should be, measure the diameter of the circle and add the length of the ray to it!
3. Lubricate the entire cardboard blank with PVA glue and until the glue has dried, proceed to the next stage - we form a sun from threads;
4. To do this, thread a piece of yellow yarn into the gypsy needle and push it through the hole. Then we leave one half of the thread on one side of the cardboard, and the other on the other. We beautifully put the threads on the cardboard and press down so that the rays "grab" on the glue. We repeat this procedure until our Yarilo is completely covered with bright rays. Let the glue dry completely, and the threads will stick tightly!
5. Ours is ready for the next stage - the formation of volumetric rays from many threads. We need to distribute all the strings into even rays and tie them, just behind the cardboard base with bright satin ribbons! The more colors prevail in the ribbons, the more fun the sun will be!
6. And now we cut out Yarila's eyes, mouth and nose. Look what a pretty sun it turned out! To match Shrovetide:
See what else you can do for your baby and with your baby during a long and fun oil week:
As you noticed, materials for making such toys can be very different: threads, pieces of fabric, straw or hay ...
To please your kid with crafts of dolls made of hay, straw or thread, I propose to consider such a detailed assembly diagram:
Let's make a Shrovetide doll with you - for the fun of the child, for a generous harvest on the farm and peace, and well-being in your home:
As you noticed, having looked at the photo of our Maslenitsa, the pose itself can tell a lot! For example, a special curl of a skirt symbolizes a brace - one of the most ancient symbols of the Sun and life ... hands raised to the top are a symbol of sun worship, an appeal to Yaril! Such a charm, made during the oil week, has tremendous protective properties ...
The arrival of spring is absolutely impossible without the beloved Maslenitsa! Even the ancient Slavs introduced the tradition to celebrate the arrival of spring, farewell to winter from year to year! In those days, large dolls were made, which were called Maslenitsa, and after the festivities, with everyone laughing, Maslenitsa was burned at the stake!
The holiday of the Born Sun was held in songs, jokes, round dances, and its symbol was a pancake associated with the Sun! Therefore, at home all walkers were expected to have ruddy-cheeked pancakes with all kinds of fillings!
We will not bake pancakes, but we will make a talisman like Maslenitsa! And the house is good - protection has appeared, and the child is happy - a new bright toy!
Our do-it-yourself Shrovetide craft will be something like this and can be easily done even at school:
To create such a craft with your own hands for the holiday, prepare:
- Bright red acrylic yarn - 1-1.5 m;
- Bright threads "Iris" of all kinds of shades (for your taste);
- Sharp scissors;
- Cardboard with sides 10 cm.
Master class: fun crafts for Shrovetide
The size of our dolls will closely depend on the width of the cardboard, since we will use it to shape the body of the dolls.
1. We spread the "Iris" threads in front of us and determine the sequence of overlapping layers of threads. We lay out the threads in the desired sequence.
2. We begin to tightly wind the first layer of thread on the cardboard. The threads must fit tightly, one on top of the other, so that our thread doll has the required volume. Having wound the first layer along the entire length, we go to the second, then to the third, and so on ...
3. Now you need to carefully remove all the threads from the cardboard, then tie all the threads well on one side, and cut on the other side with scissors.
4. Before proceeding to the next stage of work, you need to properly align the color layers and trim the sections with scissors:
5. Let's take care of the future hairstyle of our thread young lady! To do this, you need to weave an ordinary pigtail from all the same threads, only one tone! But the length of the braid should be twice the size of the doll. We fix (wrap, tie) the braid on the basis of the doll and form any hairstyle you like.
6. Tie the neck tightly with a thread, the head should be round and small!
7. The next task facing us is to make the doll's hands. To do this, again, we return to our cardboard and wind threads on it, but in any sequence and alternately with each color:
The arms should not be the same thickness as the body, therefore, it will be enough to wind three times less thread.
8. Remove the winding from the cardboard and thread bright red acrylic threads on both sides of it and tie it tightly:
9. With the same red thread, drag and select the small cams on the handles:
10. We put the handles between the halves of the body and attach them well there. We tie the waist to the doll:
11. And now, to add the elements of amulets, you need to tie the torso crosswise with red acrylic thread, wrapping it around the neck on one side, and around the waist on the other. You can wrap around the waist several times and impose such a belt with tassels on yourself. Then carefully straighten the skirt of our thread beauty, the first doll is ready:
12. So that the young lady from the thread is not bored, I propose to make a boyfriend for her. The first steps are absolutely identical, but we will do our hair a little differently!
13. To make a guy a hairstyle, we do this:
We make a small bundle of threads of the same color as the “luxurious hair” of a thread guy should be. We tie a knot in the center of the bundle and tie it all to the future head of the doll:
14. The head is formed identically to the first doll, only we lay out the hairstyle in a different way and fix it with a red thread.
15. Body and arms - we repeat everything as for a young lady of thread!
16. The final stage is the legs! We distribute the bundle of threads coming from the body into two equal parts and rewind them tightly at the very bottom, so to speak, separate the feet. If you wish, you can make a shirt for the guy by cutting the first three layers of thread going down from the waist to the desired length. Here's what a "good fellow" we got:
17. We connect both dolls together with a thread, and we get the following pair:
18. If your Shrovetide craft is given to a young couple who wants to have children, then you can add children to this composition to clarify your wishes:
Children should be very young. With a size of 4-5 cm. The manufacturing technology is identical to the "parent" one up to the "swaddling" stage - just twist the little body almost to the very bottom and the thread "baby" is ready!
19. And in order for our children to hold on to their “mothers”, we need to tie them tightly to their mother with a belt for several knots !:
That's all the "difficult" work on making crafts - a talisman for the celebration of the merry Maslenitsa!
Find out what crafts you can make with your child for the Shrovetide holiday from paper, plasticine or salt dough.
Shrovetide is the most joyful and merry winter holiday after the New Year.
It is not for nothing that they call her broad, cheerful, abundant with epithets. It is celebrated in the week that precedes Lent before Easter. In this regard, Maslenitsa is not celebrated on a clearly established day.
Crafts for Maslenitsa with their own hands for children to school, kindergarten from paper
For children to school, kindergarten or just at home, you can make crafts from colored paper.
The easiest way will be to make a paper sun, as a symbol of the end of winter and the expectation of spring.
- A circle is cut out of yellow paper. To make it even, you can put a plate or saucer on the paper and circle it.
- Rays from strips of paper are glued to the sun.
- If you take multi-colored stripes and glue them to the sun, then it will turn out to be brighter and more joyful.
IMPORTANT: And instead of stripes, you can make acute-angled triangles, and nothing if they are not the same - the sun's rays are also not all under the ruler.
For those who want to be creative, you can offer this option:
- child traces his palms on paper
- he cuts out the resulting handprints and glues them to the sun as a kind of rays
It turns out fun and funny.
The palms are rays for the sun. 
The basis for the sun with rays - palms. 
Decoration of crafts for Maslenitsa. 
Crafts for Shrovetide: the sun with palms - pens. The sun can be given volume with the help of a plastic or cardboard plate, it will serve as a solar disk, to which, again, funny rays are attached.
IMPORTANT: The sun disc can be cut from thick, wrinkle-free fabric. Make the rays from threads. Yes, the sun can be revived by sewing on button eyes, a nose and a mouth that spreads into a smile.
In addition to the sun, you can make a doll from threads, from colored paper, depicting either spring or winter. The doll should be bright, cheerful, red-cheeked.
Paper doll for Shrovetide. The sun can also be thought of as a wreath:
- from cardboard you need to cut a circle in the form of a donut
- Wrap the "donut" with bright threads and additionally decorate with braid or lace
For the most assiduous and creative, one more idea about crafts for Maslenitsa. Try to make a three-dimensional painting or panel.
- You need a large, dense sheet of approximately A3 size. It's good if it's cardboard.
- Make a diagram of what and how will be located on the panel. For example, a house or a couple of houses, possibly surrounded by a fence or trees.
- Let snow drifts appear on the panel, if possible, a sleigh.
- It is necessary to make several figures of children having fun and playing in the snow, figures of adults who keep up with children in fun and joy.
- Again, do not forget about the sun, because it is one of the key symbols of Maslenitsa.
- Now you can start cutting out all the listed elements of the panel from paper, or making figures of people from threads, as you like.
- At the last stage, all elements are located on the panel, according to the scheme.
- It is imperative to depict snow. To do this, you can use a special spray that simulates snow, cotton wool, just white paper.
Panels for Shrovetide with their own hands. VIDEO: The sun is a carnival craft
Do-it-yourself Shrovetide card: crafts with children
A Shrovetide card can be drawn or made in the form of an applique. What to depict on it? Of course, first of all, the wide, smiling sun. On the postcard, there may be dancing girls in multi-colored wide skirts. Skirts can be specially folded from colored paper.
Do-it-yourself Shrovetide card. VIDEO: Doll Shrovetide Souvenir
Crafts with children from salt dough for Shrovetide
A great option to tinker with a child and create a DIY decoration for Shrovetide is crafts made from salted dough.
Recall that salty dough is good at work, keeps its shape well, affordable and environmentally friendly material for creativity, which is based only on flour, water and salt. In addition, ingredients such as starch, gelatin, PVA glue, paints and dyes, vegetable oil can be used, which will give the craft strength and durability.
How to make salty dough:
- Flour, salt (not stone, but fine, extra) are mixed in a ratio of 1: 1, water is added to the mixture in a ratio of 0.5, for example, 0.5 shares of water are needed for one share of flour and salt.
- The water is pre-diluted with a dye, if necessary.
- The dough is kneaded until it does not stick to your hands. The mass, ready for sculpting, should not spread if rolled out, but immediately return to its shape if you press on it.
- If it was decided to add starch to the dough, then it is added based on the proportion of 0.5 share of flour and 0.5 share of starch. The starch will make the dough more elastic and the craft more durable.
- The prepared salted dough can be used more than once, the main thing is that it must be well packed in polyethylene so that it does not dry out, and stored in the refrigerator.
Despite the many advantages of salt dough as a material for crafts, it also has possible drawbacks, it will take several hours to dry the product from it in the oven, which means that the child may get tired of waiting. Children love immediate results.
Craft for Shrovetide from salted dough: the sun. Salted dough for Shrovetide can be used to make:
- Sun
- toy pancakes
- snowflake stars
- wreath rings
- chrysalis - image of spring or winter
- scarecrow of winter
- gingerbread horses and stuff
Crafts from plasticine for Shrovetide
Plasticine is a material for crafts that children have loved for a long time. All Shrovetide symbols can be sculpted with it.
Products sculpted from plasticine are best represented as:
- panel
- free standing figures
- compositions
Plasticine panel for Shrovetide. And, if a child makes a simple figure quickly, then, in the case of a composition, he will have to connect creative thinking.
For example, you can mold a table, place a samovar on it and a pile of pancakes on a platter. Place figures of both people and animals around the table, so that the child can blind. After all, they still love to feast on!
Do-it-yourself sun on Shrovetide: crafts with children
The sun for Shrovetide can be made:
- cutting out a circle of yellow paper and adding rays and a cheerful face to it
- molding it from plasticine or salt dough
- cutting a ring out of thick paper and wrapping it with threads
- cutting out a circle of foam rubber and sewing or gluing rays and parts of the face to it
A very interesting and simple sun is obtained from a computer disk and colored paper:
- colored paper of yellow and orange colors is cut into thin strips
- form loops from them - rays
- glue the eyelets to the disc in two rows
- a circle of colored paper is glued to the center of the disk - this will be a face
Paper beams. 
The first row of rays. 
The second row of rays. 
The sun from a disk and colored paper. You can also make a cone out of paper, which will be a kind of sundress, and glue the sun to it, which will be a kind of head. Such a figurine will be fun, voluminous and stable.
VIDEO: Making a craft "Sun" for the Maslenitsa holiday
Crafts with children from pancakes for Maslenitsa
When you bake pancakes for Shrovetide, put your child next to him and try to put together interesting faces and figures from pancakes, for example, bears or Mickey Mouse.
Also give the child jam for the eyes, mouth and nose of the pancake animal, sour cream for the cheeks, and the like.
Scarecrow for Shrovetide with their own hands
On Maslenitsa in the old days, it was customary to make a large effigy of winter and burn it as the culmination of the celebration. This interesting and wonderful tradition has been revived now: in many cities and towns festivities are held on Maslenitsa, an indispensable attribute of which is a scarecrow. However, your little scarecrow can also be made at home from scrap materials:
- dry stalks of grass or hay (if any)
- paper
- thread
- old unnecessary doll, dressing it in a sundress and painting it under a scarecrow
- pieces of cloth by attaching a figurine, for example, to a stick or a wooden skewer
Do-it-yourself Shrovetide charms
You can read about how to make a doll - a charm for Shrovetide with your own hands in.
VIDEO: DIY craft ideas for the Maslenitsa holiday
