How to mold a plasticine cucumber?

Modeling from plasticine is an exciting and useful activity for kids, it is not by chance that it is included in the program of preschool institutions and elementary school classes. Kids are happy to create copies of the heroes of children's literary works and cartoons. Such classes can be timed to coincide with different seasons. So, with the arrival of autumn, the modeling of the gifts of nature becomes relevant. This article will discuss how to gradually mold a cucumber from plasticine.

Plasticine is a very convenient and very diverse material. Its modern types are distinguished by extraordinary tenderness, softness, and bright colors. They do not stain hands and furniture, so it is easy for babies to work with them. Plasticine sculpting has a number of features. It develops the child's visual perception, memory, imaginative thinking, forms a number of necessary skills and abilities. This is an ideal activity for developing fine motor skills.

A child from 1.5 years old can independently create cylindrical figures from plasticine, so it will not be difficult for him to mold a cucumber from the mass. To make a figurine, you need to take a piece of green plasticine and roll it out in your palms, moving back and forth. The figurine can be shaped in a variety of ways by making it a long or short sausage. The cucumber can be shaped straight or slightly curved, thick or thin.

Having blinded the model of a cucumber, it should be rounded; for this, fingers are drawn over the soft mass, smoothing out irregularities. The vegetable may have a slightly rounded shape, therefore, by pulling one edge, the cucumber is given the desired shape.

One of the favorite activities for little ones while sculpting is to pinch off small pieces. By gluing small pieces to the main figure, you can make a cucumber with flowers. When working with plasticine, you must have a sculpting knife and a stack. Thanks to these tools, you can model the craft, giving it a finished look.

Modeling a cucumber will be an interesting task for children. It is much easier to do this by looking at the real fruit or by studying the instructions. There are many master classes describing how to properly mold a cucumber from plasticine.

To do this work you will need:

• green and yellow plasticine;
• modeling board;
• stack and plastic knife;
• real cucumber.

To create a craft, you need to follow these steps in stages:

• select and knead a piece of green from the set;
• roll a thick "sausage" out of it, making one end thinner and the other thicker;
• slightly bend the resulting cucumber blank with an arc;
• pinch off a piece of yellow and use it to create a flower by gluing it to the tip of the vegetable;
• using a stack, make green pimples along the entire length of the cucumber.

Having made such a simple craft, you can start creating a more complex version and, acting step by step, mold a figure in a hat that looks like your favorite character from the cartoon "Cheerful Gherkin". Crafting this character will require the following materials:

• a set of plasticine with different colors;
• boards;
• tools - knife and stacks;
• pictures of the hero.

The cartoon character looks more like a man, so he requires additional design. Taking as a basis a simple option for creating a cucumber, you can begin to improve it. For this, the legs are glued to the cucumber, making them from twisted flagella. The body of the cucumber, with its thin end, is placed vertically on the legs so that the craft stands.

It remains to make a plasticine hat for the hero. For the craft, blue and lilac colors will be used. To mold a hat, you need to follow a series of simple steps.

• Take 2 pieces of blue. Roll a ball from one (smaller) part and flatten it into a cake. And the second piece needs to be rolled up, flattened on the sides.
• Then you need to fasten these parts.
• Roll a thin strip from a piece of lilac mass and wrap it around the brim of the hat.
• Attach a bow for decoration.

The finished headdress is placed on the upper part of the character, sliding it slightly to the side. It is also necessary to make the eyes, nose and mouth of the protagonist. To complete the image of a cheerful hero, two thin rollers are made of green plasticine, they will become his hands. The ends of the rollers are flattened in the form of palms, and fingers are drawn in a stack.

For information on how to mold this plasticine hat, see the next video.