Plasticine fruit

Plasticine sculpting can be fun if you know how to work with it and start experimenting. Children love this material, so you can make a vase or plate of fruit with them. It will not take much time, but it will leave pleasant impressions and cheer up. In addition, plasticine is an elastic material from which you can mold almost anything you want.

For the development of children, experts recommend do-it-yourself plasticine modeling. This material lends itself easily to the formation of various figures, moreover, it is offered in a variety of colors, so the child will not refuse such a pleasure. If you are going to sculpt with a baby, it is better to do it from light airy plasticine, which lends itself to small handles.

Get involved in making a vase of exotic fruits to choose from together. In kindergartens, children often sculpt, the process takes all the child's attention, and you can give a master class to teach him how to create interesting things step by step, be it fruits, dishes or clothes for dolls. To work with plasticine you will need:

• free table;
• a litter for materials so as not to stain the surface;
• clerical knife or thread;
• modeling board;
• stack.

By sculpting with your child, you will build your relationship, and the process develops thinking and creative skills, which is useful.

Plasticine crafts can be very different. It can be a flower arrangement, a fruit bowl or something else, it all depends on your own imagination and desire to create with your own hands.Thanks to the soft material, you can make voluminous small products if you follow the scheme in stages. The following ideas can be done with children 5-6 years old, but they are also suitable for toddlers under 4 years old.

Whether it's a boy or a girl, you can suggest making a fruit basket, which will then become a props for games. You can put bananas, apples, oranges, grapes and any other berries you want in such a container. To make a basket, you need brown plasticine, which resembles a vine.

• It is necessary to make an even number of identical pieces in order to blind the side walls and the bottom.

• Knead each detail in your hands and make long strings, then connect them in pairs and roll them into flagella.

• A round cake should be made from one slice. Since the plasticine is quite soft, it is better to use a plastic lid as a base and stick it on the bottom of the future basket. Gradually line the circle with brown pigtails, and use the latter as a handle, bending and attaching to the sides.

The next step is filling the basket, so you need to make various fruits. For example, pineapple will need brown and green material.

• Make one elongated brown ball and squeeze it on one side. While holding your piece, use a spatula or scissors to make diamond-shaped notches like a real pineapple.

• Take green plasticine, flatten the balls on both sides to make leaves, on which draw veins.

• At the final stage, it remains to attach the tail to the pineapple, pressing down on top.

There is one fruit for the basket, you can proceed to the next.

If you have already learned how to make a basket, you can try to mold a vase. White and blue plasticine are suitable for this:

• a piece of material must be rolled into a cylinder about 5 cm high;
• squeeze the top of the part a little and form a flat bowl;
• the edges of the vase must be bent to form the sides.

You can make a wider vase to accommodate more fruit. If you love grapes, you can make it yourself, it will only take a few minutes.

• Prepare purple or green plasticine, pinch off a few pieces to roll small balls out of them.
• Place the grapes directly in the vase next to each other in a trapezoid pattern. To make the craft more voluminous, lay it out in a checkerboard pattern so that the bottom layer looks out on the sides.
• It remains to make an oval from green plasticine, twist the tip and attach a leaf.

There should be an apple in the vase, and it will take a little tinkering with it to make it look natural. To do this, you need plasticine of several different colors.

• Knead up the material and roll into a ball, for example a red ball.
• Stick a little yellow and orange plasticine to it, then spread it so that the surface becomes smooth. To give the apple a uniform texture, start rubbing from a point that will become the top of the fruit.
• Make a depression and attach the stalk. If you wish, you can make a leaf from green plasticine. Don't forget to vein it.

If you want to do something exotic, choose an orange. You will need plasticine in 3 colors: white, orange and light orange.

• Mix the first two to get a light shade, and blind 6 flagella.
• Wrap each of them with a strip of orange plasticine, distributing it evenly. The edge of the flagellum must be pinched to obtain a triangle in cross section.
• Form a flagellum from a white material and attach orange slices so that their sharp edge is inside.
• Roll out the craft, wrap it in white plasticine, roll it out.
• Wrap with orange stripe and roll again.
• Use regular thread to cut into slices.

The plate can be dazzled with a toddler under 4 years old, it is not difficult. Take a soft plasticine, which will harden a little after freezing.

• Make a ball out of half a bar, press down on top with your finger to get a round cake. The kid can press down on the workpiece with his palm to level the surface.

• To shape the bottom, use a bottle cap and press down in the center.

• Then the sides stand out, and the plate is ready. It can be decorated with plasticine of a different color. Make balls by decorating the edges of the container. The white border will also look original.

No special skills are required to create fruits, since almost all of them are round or oblong in shape, which even a child can make. It is only necessary to choose the right colors, if necessary, make notches and leaves.

To do modeling with a child, you must follow certain safety rules and follow the recommendations, then the process of needlework will be simple and fun.

• Choose an elastic and soft clay so that small hands can easily knead it.
• Carefully study the composition of the material so that it does not contain toxic substances. There are great options on the market that don't even leave marks on clothing and surfaces, which is a plus.
• Better to start with something simple, like a plate of apples, plums and bananas, which are very simple to make. Of course, it is important to help the child at every stage, but at the same time allow him to independently find a solution to how to make this or that fruit or berry.
• It is recommended to sculpt the same elements at the same time with the children, so that they see an example and repeat after you. And to make the process more interesting, accompany your actions with stories or conversation.
• After trying to make a fruit basket, you can start making other items.
• Send the craft to the refrigerator to harden the clay a little.

You will find even more master classes on creating fruits from plasticine in the next video.