What does the handicraft class include?

Handicraft courses cover a wide range of topics, including paper-cutting, clay sculpture, origami, clay sculpture and collage.

1 Paper-cutting, also known as paper engraving, is a kind of hollow art and one of the oldest Han folk arts in China. Visually, it gives people an empty inspiration and artistic enjoyment. The carrier of paper-cutting can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth and leather.

Paper-cut art is a traditional folk craft of Han nationality. It has a long history and is enduring. It is a treasure in China folk art, and also a treasure in the world art treasure house. Simple, vivid and interesting artistic modeling has unique artistic charm.

Its characteristics are mainly manifested in the two-dimensional concept of space, the texture of knife and paper, lines and decoration, freehand brushwork and implication and many other aspects.

2. clay sculpture

Clay sculpture, commonly known as "painted sculpture". Clay sculpture art is an ancient and common folk art in China folk tradition. That is, folk handicrafts that shape clay into various images.

The production method is to mix a little cotton fiber into the clay, tamp it evenly, knead it into mud blanks with various patterns, dry it in the shade, coat it with base powder, and then color it.

It takes soil as raw material, hand-shaped, or plain or colorful, with figures and animals as the main ones. Clay sculpture is commonly known as "painted sculpture" and "clay play" among the people. Clay sculpture originated in Fengxiang County, Baoji City, and is popular in Shaanxi, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Henan and other places.

3. origami by hand

Origami, also known as "craft origami", is an artistic activity of folding paper into various shapes. In most origami competitions, participants need to fold their works with a complete square piece of paper.

The combination of origami and natural science.

Origami has not only become a teaching aid in architectural schools, but also developed into a branch of modern geometry.

Origami has gradually developed into a children's toy, an activity that is beneficial to the body and mind, develops intelligence and thinking, a symbol of peace and commemoration, and an excellent pastime.

4. Clay production

Ultra-light clay is a kind of paper clay, referred to as ultra-light soil. It is easier and more comfortable to pinch, more suitable for modeling, and the works are lovely. Popular in Japan, it is a new type of environmentally friendly, non-toxic and naturally air-dried hand modeling material.

It is mainly made of foaming powder (vacuum microspheres) made of polymer materials, and then physically mixed with polyvinyl alcohol, crosslinking agent, glycerol, pigment and other materials in a certain proportion.

Suitable for making dolls, dolls, brooches, hair ornaments, embossed wall ornaments, photo frames, artificial flowers, etc.

Step 5: collage

Collage refers to the technology of pasting paper, fabric or any natural or man-made material on canvas or drawing board to create image composition in plane space or bas-relief. It also refers to works of art created by this technology. Sometimes the whole work is collage, mixed with oil painting and other techniques.

When a heavy three-dimensional object becomes the main body of composition, this kind of work is usually called assembly, and this term is often used in sculpture rather than painting. Collage is a kind of artistic decoration in the19th century, which is developed from paper cover. The decorative pattern is made of sticky colored paper.

Extended data:

Handicraft course is a common course in junior high school art class, which can stimulate children's interest, cultivate children's hand-brain cooperation ability, tool use ability, unity and cooperation spirit and creative and innovative consciousness.

Handmade can enrich children's childhood life, cultivate children's self-confidence, observation, creativity and practical ability, and make children develop in an all-round way.

For children, this is the best way to train them to do one thing independently. From the initial design creation to the later planning and production, they all do it bit by bit. This is a good training for children's practical ability.

Handmade products consume a lot of time and manpower, so they are extremely expensive. But each finished product is not exactly the same, which embodies the creativity and inspiration of the producers, so it is more and more precious and is loved by people who pursue individuality and advocate nature.

Now the word manual refers to manual diy activities.