По всей видимости, искусство мозаики начало accompany a person from ancient times, long before the heyday of civilization. Elements of the first creations in this technique were small bones of animals, colored stones. His material for the production of mosaics, accessible and convenient in work, was searched and found in Sumer and Egypt, Greece and Rome, in Europe and in the East.
Being a monumental art, mosaic findsreflected in children's creativity. At first, the application becomes accessible to children, the mosaic is more complex, and perseverance and patience are needed to create it. Can you use the same source material? paper, which worked with the creation of applications. But excellent crafts can also be created from tree seeds, sunflower seeds, flower petals, sawdust, tinted in different colors.
It should be noted that for preschoolers and studentsPrimary classes a mosaic of paper should be simple, with a minimum amount of detail. In kindergarten, it is better for babies to immediately prepare sets of already cut pieces in advance. Indeed, during this period, the technique of working with glue is only mastered by the child, and he wants to see the finished result of his work as soon as possible.
The first lessons on the study of mosaic technology shouldbe the simplest: for example, to collect from four small squares one big. From simple geometric shapes - a square, a rectangle, a triangle, a rhombus - a mosaic of paper can move on to an ornament. Moreover, many examples of folk art is based on the use of stylized forms. First, a combination of white and red colors is applied, black, green, blue, yellow are gradually added to them. Increasing the palette, developing imagination, you need to show your child how interesting and colorful a mosaic of colored paper can be.
Finally, you can go to the more complexmulticolor mosaic, representing a pattern composed of fine material. This work will be very close to the products of a large, monumental mosaic.
Like the world famous murals and murals, childrena mosaic of paper needs an initial sketch. Many ready-made contour sketches exist on the Internet. They are available for printing. Of course, you can draw a sketch yourself: in outline thin lines on heavy paper or cardboard. Use for the background either white or the tone that should be in the finished picture.
Material is being prepared for work: multicolored paper is cut into either small squares or arbitrary pieces. For convenience, it is better to sort by color.
Клей нужно наносить не на сами кусочки, а на фон, where they will be laid out, and only on a small area, so that he during the work did not have time to dry. After applying the glue, you need to gently take a piece of paper with tweezers and attach it to the background in accordance with the sketch. Continue to work until the entire image is glued to pieces.
To make a mosaic of paper stuck, you need toput the load and dry. Now you can once again circle the contour with a black felt-tip pen, stick it on a thick cardboard, insert it into the frame and hang it on the wall as a usual picture.
