Beautiful appliques of shapes help develop good thinking in young children. They have a positive effect on children's subconscious, thereby forming ideas about the outside world.
Before starting developmental activities, it is necessary to explain what geometric shapes are. They are the basis of an interesting activity. After some time, the child will learn to cut out paper elements on his own.
Our material provides detailed instructions and drawings for educational applications. Ready-made sketches help make the task easier. Based on their structure, the necessary elements are selected to create an unusual picture.
Classes should be selected based on the age category of your baby. For young children, it is best to choose applications consisting of 4-5 geometric shapes. The difference in color palette promotes good memorization and memory training.
Geometric applique "Transport"
How to make a geometric applique? It's actually quite simple. When choosing a task, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with your child’s preferences. For example, girls prefer flowers, birds, and animals. Boys most often choose cars, robots, etc.
As for the color combination, it is best for children with an impulsive character to choose light or pastel shades. They form maximum concentration and perseverance. In addition, such measures have a positive effect on the emotional state.
We present to your attention an application in the form of transport. It consists of simple geometric shapes. This activity will appeal to children aged 3 to 4.5 years. It creates hard work, perseverance and accuracy.
Before starting the work process, you need to prepare the following tools and materials:
- simple pencil;
- ruler;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- colored paper;
- car image;
- brush.
The process of creating an application takes place in several simple steps:
- We begin to cut out the shapes that make up our “geometric” vehicle: a rectangle for the main part of the car body, circles for the wheels, a square for the roof. Before you start cutting out objects, you need to decide on their color scheme.
- Next, on a white sheet of paper, draw a road along which the transport will move. After that, glue a rectangle in the center. We glue a roof over it. Lubricate each element with a small amount of adhesive. When the roof and body are dry, you can move on to the wheels.
The application is almost ready. Here you can give free rein to your children's imagination. Let the child draw the doors and windows of his car himself.
Applications from geometric shapes “Animals”
This developmental technique is aimed at ages 5 to 6 years. At this time, the child already has a good idea of what shapes the body of a particular animal consists of. How to make a geometric applique for a child? Today we will glue the dog.
The paper structure contains: a head in the form of a circle, a body in the shape of an oval, paws made of small rectangles and ovals, and a neck in the form of a cylinder. To decorate the neck area, we will make a small bow from two triangles.
Before starting classes, you need to prepare the following tools:
- scissors;
- ruler;
- brush.
From the materials we will need:
- colored paper or cardboard;
- white sheet of paper in A4 format;
- glue in the form of a pencil.
The master class for do-it-yourself geometric applications takes place in several stages:
Carefully cut out the geometric components of our craft. Next, we fix each element in its place. Experienced teachers recommend numbering each detail. This will allow the child to master counting and visual representation.
Lubricate the reverse side with adhesive. First we glue the head, then the rest of the animal’s body. The final step will be a beautiful bow in a bright color.
The photo of geometric applications shows drawings and sketches. Here you can choose an educational activity for your child based on his age and preferences.
Photos of geometric applications
Many novice educators are thinking about how to make an applique from geometric shapes and why it is needed. During such lessons and activities, children receive a lot of useful information about the types of geometric shapes and learn to understand the basic shapes of objects. After working with small parts, the child will have well-developed fine motor skills and will also be perfectly prepared for mathematics.
Applique of various figures is an incredibly interesting activity with which you can help your child develop the following abilities:
- good thinking;
- creativity and imagination;
- artistic taste;
- eye gauge;
- correct color perception.
Classes dedicated to selecting elements by color can teach your child how to combine colors. In addition to developing many abilities, every child enjoys this activity.
You can start such interesting activities when your child has already started going to kindergarten.
Gallery: applique of geometric shapes (25 photos)
Applications for little ones
In the younger group, kids learn the skills of carefully gluing parts of a future composition: applying glue correctly and evenly, arrange parts of a certain color and shapes in the required order, remove excess glue using napkins.
If you don’t want your child to lose interest in this activity, you need to play with geometric shapes and collages of geometric shapes. For example, colored mugs can be turned into balls, and apples can be turned into a caterpillar. The squares can make a cat or a dog.
Lessons with applique Educators often use a funny moment: Show the kids a large sheet with a picture of some cute animal, for example, a cat or a fox. Then together they figure out how to make it themselves from figurines.
In the second younger group they perform more difficult tasks - glue finished parts, changing shape and color. To increase interest in classes, teachers create new tasks and ask to add something to the finished craft.
Once children have mastered the basic skills of working with scissors, you can assign them more complex tasks, for example fill a big truck with some stuff. In this group, children are often tasked with making a rocket.
In the middle group they are taught to consolidate the skills of cutting strips, slicing and dividing geometric shapes. From the cut out parts they can make: a Christmas tree, a hut, a boat, a rocket, a flower.
Any child has a hard time cutting out round-shaped parts, but without this it is difficult to make a normal animal or bird. Kids like it most make duckling, bunny and chicken. Thanks to proper work with applications of geometric shapes, they can learn to depict various vehicles, for example:
- airplane;
- tank;
- tractor.
In the senior group, everyone practices their acquired skills and learns how to create crafts from geometric shapes with bright images.
At this age children like it more perform collective works and compositions. This promotes the development of communication between children and the ability to get along with each other. Usually a collective composition takes only two days: first a house, a person, and then a car are created. Both preschoolers and children in elementary grades are interested in such activities.
The most difficult work is considered to be the clown applique made from geometric shapes; it has a lot of details and bright colors; it takes a long time to cut out. To make it easier, you can first draw diagrams.
Conclusion
Most often, such work is carried out in kindergarten or in grades 3–4. Crafts from triangles or squares are all quite simple. If you want to prepare your child for many things in the future, you should try applique work with him.
This article is intended for practicing appliqué with children. Geometric applique will unobtrusively introduce the baby to the basic properties of objects: size, color, shape. The drawing is made up of simple geometric shapes. The application is associated with cognitive activity and has a huge impact on the development of the child’s creative and mental abilities. It will be of great benefit and will help develop work skills.
When starting to introduce your child to the app, you need to remember three main rules:
1) the child cannot hold his attention for a long time
2) he should be interested
3) the child needs praise for the work done.
Before starting class, cut out geometric shapes of different colors and sizes. Pay the baby's attention to the figure, its color and size. Help me put the shapes in the right order.
Flower applique.
If the child is still very small, then it is better to perform the application together. Place the flower on paper and ask your child to repeat after you. Show how to use glue and glue a picture.
At first, use 2-3 geometric shapes in the application; for better memorization, pronounce the names and comment on your actions.
The flower is made of circles and squares. The circles are the petals of the flower, and the squares laid out in the shape of a diamond are the stem of the flower.
Caterpillar applique.
The caterpillar is made entirely of circles and only a small triangle is required for the mouth.
Butterfly applique.
The butterfly applique will be more complex, it includes new geometric shapes. The number and size of parts increases.
It’s worth trying to make a general picture of geometric shapes with your child. First, work out each element of the future picture separately (flower, butterfly, caterpillar), and then assemble the overall picture.
While doing appliqué with your child, ask him who he is portraying? Who are caterpillars and what do they turn into? By conducting classes using this method, the child’s horizons develop.
Winter picture.
If it’s winter outside, then you should try to make a simple winter geometric applique.
House applique.
First, we try to lay out the house from the figures, and then glue it onto the base for the applique.
Christmas tree applique.
We assemble the Christmas tree from green triangles, and from small circles we make beads for the Christmas tree.
Snowman applique.
Everything is also simple with the snowman, it consists of circles of different sizes, one trapezoid and two different small triangles.
Application of geometric shapes "Cats and mice".
Applique is an ancient method of developing children of all ages, which includes a huge number of varieties: from geometric shapes, from fabric, from natural materials, object-based, plot, decorative, and so on.
Benefits of applique classes for children of all ages
Application classes will make an extremely positive contribution to the development of the child:
Preparing the workplace and materials
Whether it's a simple application of geometric shapes or gluing a long story, using the data provided, Due attention must, first of all, be paid to organizing the child’s workplace:
- scissors (light, small, comfortable for a child’s hand, always with blunt ends);
- a base that will become the base for the appliqué (for example, a white sheet of paper, cardboard, a wooden block);
- glue (preferably glue - a pencil that will not spread, spill or stain, unlike the usual liquid type);
- working material (what the applique will be made from: colored paper, fabric, cereals, foil, flowers, and so on).
Working with Templates
To properly organize appliqué lessons with children, it is important to work out every little detail, in particular the templates. Applications for the youngest (3-5 years old), for example, from geometric shapes, leave no questions regarding the creation of templates for them. In this case, you need to create a drawing, indicating on it the places where the baby should glue the pre-cut elements. 
In situations with preparing for applications for older children, certain difficulties may arise if the organizer does not have good drawing skills. The described situation is due to the need to create more complex sketches, by tracing and independently cutting out which children will be able to obtain the necessary components of a future craft.
The algorithm for working with templates is identical for each type of application:
- create a sketch in color;
- copy the original drawing;
- cut (for children 3-5 years old) or divide with bright lines (for children over 5 years old) the image copied in color into the constituent parts of the future work;
- glue the elements onto the prepared base.
Figure templates for the younger group of kindergarten
Applications from geometric shapes - the most suitable a way to develop fine motor skills and creative thinking of children in the younger group of kindergarten:
Figure templates for the senior group of kindergarten
Application of geometric shapes, adding to the plot of a picture, “composing” pictures of animals, birds by gluing eyes, paws, wings, etc. main types of applicative activities with children 4-5 years old:
Templates of figures for the preparatory group of kindergarten
As a rule, tasks for children over 5 years old This involves not only cutting and gluing, but also preparing a template for the applique yourself:
Figure templates for 1st grade
An applique of geometric shapes will certainly be suitable for schoolchildren who know how to handle scissors carefully.
Students are given complicated tasks with a large number of templates - circles, polygons, cutting out which will require strength, perseverance, and accuracy.
Applications:
Shape templates for grade 2
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Shape templates for 3rd grade
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Shape templates for 4th grade
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Application on the theme “Summer”
Applications of forest, sun, mushrooms, trees, grass, made from geometric shapes of various materials, will perfectly reveal the theme of summer in a child’s work:
As a result of the work, the child receives an image of a sunny day with all the components of the summer period.
Application on the theme “Autumn”
When working on “autumn” applications, you can, as an option, use natural materials:
As a result of simple manipulations, the child will receive an application illustrating the details of the autumn season.
Application on the theme “Winter”
Work with a winter theme can be made from a variety of materials: cotton wool, paper, fabric and so on. The most useful from the point of view of developing fine motor skills in children is an applique consisting of small pieces of paper. The child should not cut out these components, but tear the paper as small as possible. It is better to use a dark blue sheet of colored cardboard as a base. 
Performance:
- First, children need to prepare templates of houses and trees, consisting of geometric shapes. (rectangles - houses; squares - windows of houses; elongated rectangles - tree trunks; triangles - roofs of houses).
- Having glued the resulting appliqué parts into place, you can begin the process of tearing the paper.
- Small pieces of white paper obtained as a result of the work done are randomly attached to the roof, branches, and ground, depicting snowfall or snowdrifts.
As a result of creativity, an image of a winter city is obtained on a sheet of paper.
Application on the theme “Space”
When working on a “space” application, you can invite your child to “make” constellations:
As a result of creativity, you should get a variety of constellations of the night sky: Ursa Major/Little Bear, Gemini, Canis Major, and so on.
Making patterns from geometric shapes
Making a pattern of geometric shapes helps children master or consolidate knowledge about their names, develops fine motor skills, creative thinking, and imagination. This type of activity consists of gluing the simplest figures in a chaotic order to obtain a pattern or classifying components by size, shape, color, and so on. 
To spark a child’s interest in this type of appliqué, an adult invites him to decorate a napkin.
Having provided the student with the templates, it is necessary to show him a sample, a copy of which should become the result of the work. An alternative to the model can be cooperation with the teacher, where, hearing the name (color, size) of a geometric figure previously cut out according to a template, the child must choose the same one and stick it to the indicated place.
It is important for the organizer of application classes to remember the need to:
- properly equip the “student’s” workplace: remove unnecessary things, prepare what is necessary;
- in classes, resort to playful techniques to keep the child’s interest;
- use a variety of materials for applications in order to best develop children’s tactile sensations;
- choose a topic that suits the interests of a particular age group;
- ask the child to express his personal opinion after the work done for further analysis of errors in organizing the process;
- do not limit the child’s imagination and allow him to refine the appliqué lesson plan as he works.
Applications made in the style of the simplest gluing together of pictures from geometric shapes, along with more complex options, should, first of all, bring joy to children.
Definitely, the “teacher” must interest the children before formulating the task, praise them during the process, and evaluate the merits of the work already completed. By enjoying the activities, the child will not only develop, but also have a pleasant time in the company of peers or parents, which means that appliqué classes will take root in his life for a long time.
Video: application of geometric shapes
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Geometric applique is considered the simplest type. In order to perform this type of applique, you do not need to be able to draw beautifully, think through the contours and silhouettes of details, since the picture is made up of geometric figures cut out of colored paper - triangles, squares, circles. In this way you can make a variety of applications in the form of animals, houses, cars.
The completed application in kindergarten can be in the form of a house, since a house is considered simple to make. To make such an applique, children just need to cut out one square, one triangle, several rectangles from colored paper, glue it to the base, and the work is completed.
Applique of geometric shapes in the shape of a fish
For preschoolers, the teacher can prepare a task - to make a silhouette of a fish from geometric shapes. To work, you will need sheets of colored paper, sheets of white paper, preferably thick, as well as scissors, brushes and glue. First you need to cut out parts of different shapes from colored paper according to a template. The silhouette of a fish can be designated in different ways, so you can give the child the opportunity to choose the model he likes and let him glue the parts onto the base, which is a sheet of white paper, according to the chosen model.
From geometric shapes you can make not only the silhouette of a fish, but also the silhouettes of other animals. A great option is to invite children to make an animal, and then a presentation can be made based on these works.
Applique of geometric shapes in the shape of a Christmas tree
If this is 1st grade, you can invite students to make an applique in the shape of a Christmas tree. To do this, you will need sheets of colored paper in green and brown, as well as a sheet of white cardboard, scissors, a brush and glue. From a sheet of green colored paper you need to cut out four triangles of different shapes, then cut out another triangle from a sheet of brown colored paper. After this, you can glue the triangles to the base one by one.
How to make a rocket shaped applique
If this is grade 2, you can give the children a more complex task, for example, making a rocket out of sheets of colored paper. The task is complicated by the fact that it is necessary to cut out a larger number of parts and monitor the order when gluing the parts to the base.
In the shape of a car
If this is grade 4, the teacher can ask students to make an applique in the shape of a car. To do this you will need sheets of colored paper, a sheet of cardboard for the base, as well as scissors and glue. In order to make an applique, you need to cut out the necessary parts from sheets of colored paper and glue them to the base. The machine can be presented in several versions, it all depends on the child’s imagination.
To complete the plot of the picture, you can invite children to complete the missing details, for example, traffic signs or the sun, forest.
Even kids can make appliqués from geometric shapes, because this type of applique is considered the simplest, and due to the fact that the image consists of multi-colored geometric shapes, little children will learn to distinguish colors and distinguish one geometric shape from another. The video lessons presented below will show how you can teach children to make appliques from geometric shapes and what kind of work can be done.
