How to make an apple from plasticine?

Plasticine modeling is a fun and useful activity for children. With babies, it is better to sculpt objects that they already know well. You will find interesting and simple ideas on how to make an apple from plasticine step by step with toddlers and older children in this article.

Making your favorite plasticine fruit with your own hands will not be difficult for children aged 1.5 years and older and will bring them great pleasure. The main task of children is to learn the basic techniques of modeling. The simpler the scheme of work, the faster the child will see the result of his work and will love this occupation.

For sculpting you will need:

• red, green and brown plasticine;
• modeling board or oilcloth;
• stack.

Take the plasticine out of the box. If it's too hard, put the box in a warm place for a few minutes. Cut off the required amount of plasticine from each color. Show your child how to soften the pieces: knead them with your fingers and roll them between your palms. As soon as the mass becomes pliable, you can make an apple. From the red piece, form a ball with your fingers and continue to roll it alternately with each hand on the table. Teach your child to do this with a firm, firm palm. Once the oval is round, the apple is ready. Now let's make a twig for the apple. Let's form a small ball and, lightly pressing it on the board with the palm of your hand, make a small "sausage". This will be the twig.

We blind a leaf from a green piece. We roll up the green ball, put it on the palm, and press another tightly on top and flatten it, turning it into a pancake. With thumb and forefinger, squeeze one edge of our pancake, pinching it. This will be the narrow tip of the leaf.Now let's draw thin stripes-streaks on it with a stack. We connect the edge of the twig with the leaf. In the apple we make a small hole with a stack and insert our stalk there. Gently bend the leaf to the side so that it is clearly visible face up. Our first bull's-eye is ready.

With older children, you can safely sculpt a more realistic apple, adding naturalness to it with the help of small details. You can add a new element to the composition - a funny caterpillar. Consider the step-by-step progress of work. Take a couple of brightly colored plasticine, such as yellow and red. Form a ball out of them so that the colors are evenly distributed throughout the shape.

Gently pressing your fingers on the bottom of the apple, give it a slightly oblong shape and make light dents on the bottom of the apple with your fingertips. Flatten the top of the fruit slightly. To make the apple just like a real one, we will make a handle and stamens from brown plasticine for it.

To form a twig, roll a small "sausage" in several places. This will give the craft a natural look. Make a hole in the top of the apple and secure the stalk inside. Create stamens from a flat brown strip. We make neat small cuts with a stack from one edge along the length of the entire strip, but do not cut it to the very end. We fold the strip into a tube, directing the stamens inward. Press the hole at the bottom of the apple and insert the stamens there.

We blind two oblong leaves from green plasticine. We will make veins in them with a stack. Let's roll 5 balls from the same plasticine: 1 will be large, the other 4 - a little smaller. Stick 2 small black cakes to a large ball on both sides. These are the eyes. We connect all 5 blanks one by one. The caterpillar is ready. Place the apple on the barrel and attach the caterpillar on top. The apple with the caterpillar is ready.

They resemble images painted in watercolors. To create a still life with an apple in this way, you will need:

• a suitable picture drawn with a marker or printed from the Internet;
• markers: for leaves - green, for fruits and flowers - red, yellow, orange, pink;
• plasticine;
• frame with glass;
• stack, stationery clips;
• cotton wool and alcohol;
• cardboard for the background.

The work plan is as follows.

• Detach the glass from the frame. Place the sketch of the still life under the glass and secure with clamps.
• With markers on the glass, trace the outline of the drawing, observing the desired colors.
• Mash the clay thoroughly and start sculpting on glass.
• Start working with small details: small leaves, highlights on an apple, color and tint spots, shadows. Try not to go beyond the outline of the drawing.
• After you paint over the drawing with plasticine, carefully wipe the outer surface of the glass with alcohol.
• Carefully attach the background paper to the work with the front side and fix it in the frame along with the glass.
• A wonderful still life is ready.

You can put apples in a plasticine basket. It is not difficult to make it.

You will need:

• a low jar of cream or yogurt;
• brown plasticine;
• stack.

First of all, we make the elements with which we will braid the walls of the basket. To do this, we divide the plasticine into several equal pieces and roll thin flagella from them. We twist them together in two, and then stick them in a circle on the jar, closing the ends of the twigs into a ring. Then we make a handle: we weave another pigtail of two twigs and attach it to the jar. The basket is ready. You can collect apples that we have already fashioned into it and go on a visit to your favorite toys.

A still life basket with bright autumn apples using the plasticine technique can be made as a gift to mom, grandmother, beloved teacher. To create a bas-relief you will need:

• a lacquered piece of plywood;
• plasticine.
• stack.

Now let's see how the work looks like. Knead the burgundy plasticine to such an extent that it is easy to spread it with a stack over the surface of the board. To obtain the desired shade, mix equal parts brown and red plasticine. Apply the mixture to the plywood and shape it to the desired shape. Carefully cut off the excess plasticine with a stack and remove. To create a handle, roll up a voluminous long rope and stick it over the basket.

Use your thumb and forefinger to make light pintuckles along the entire length of the handle. Stack the basket with a diagonal notch pattern (in two directions). The basket is ready.

We make cakes from yellow plasticine. It's apples. To make the fruits voluminous, we make glare on them with plasticine of a lighter shade, for example, we mix yellow and white. We stick light highlights in the shape of a crescent on one side of the apple, on each fruit the same way.

With thin strokes we make the apples red sides. We attach the brown sticks-legs. We form the leaves by cutting out the jagged edges in a stack. Make the patterned edge of the pink tablecloth at the bottom of the plywood to represent the table.

For information on how to mold a realistic apple from plasticine, see the next video.