Crafts from colored rice - rangoli, applications, voluminous figures

We have already introduced you to the rice coloring technology for children's creativity. If anyone found free time and prepared colored rice, then now is the time for you to replenish your creative baggage and find out how many different activities you can do with your inquisitive children, having such wonderful material in your hands. Environmentally friendly, safe, inexpensive.

In distant India, drawing with colored rice or rice flour has grown into a separate art form - rangoli (dry painting). And one can only wonder how seemingly very simple Indian women create real masterpieces near their homes.

We will consider only the simplest possibilities for using colored rice to develop children's imagination.

For little fidgets, colored rice is an opportunity to get acquainted with the color scheme; with the help of such a light and bright material, you can create any picture. To do this, you need to prepare some kind of drawing on a sheet of paper or cardboard. The drawing should be with large elements so that a small artist can easily work with a sketch.

After applying a thin layer of glue (PVA or ordinary clerical glue) to the elements of the picture, sprinkle each element with the chosen color of rice. Let dry and shake off excess grains. In this way, you can create both landscape drawings and ornaments.

You can simply draw on a pallet with low edges that protect the rice from spilling out, a child can create any work with his small hands, you just need to help him understand what the artist has done. Together come up with a name and try to capture it in a photo, so that later there is something to show to grown children.

In addition to drawing with colored rice, kids can also be carried away by three-dimensional construction from this material.

To make, for example, apples, you need to prepare a base in the form of a ball. It can be a foam blank, a papier-mâché ball or polyurethane foam. Then, according to the already mastered method, covering the base with glue, sprinkle the product with colored rice of the selected color. The final moment will be attaching a piece of twig in place of the stalk and a green leaf from a suitable material.

For boys, colored rice will be more useful as a building material. Having built a “sandbox” from a cardboard or plastic box, you can fill it with colorful rice and let the child fill the containers, pour the rice, look for small toys in the poured rice.

Working with rice allows you to develop fine motor skills of babies, which surprisingly affects the overall development of the child, his abilities.

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