How to mold Baba Yaga from plasticine?

Baba Yaga is the central negative character in most old and modern Russian fairy tales. It can be molded from plasticine. Such a figurine will be an excellent toy for preschool and primary school children. In the process of work, you will need plasticine, as well as additional devices.

To sculpt Baba Yaga in the classic version, you will need a set of colored plasticine, a sculpting board, a plastic knife, and a special stack with a round tip. Matches are required to connect body parts together. Making plasticine Baba Yaga with your own hands is not at all difficult. The step-by-step sculpting process is as follows. It is necessary to take a block of beige plasticine and separate a small part from it. The working material needs to be kneaded very well in the hands and a ball is formed from it - this will be a kind of blank for the head. Next, the ball needs to be pulled out a little so that a thin face of an old woman is obtained.

It is necessary to form a nose from plasticine of the same color. As a rule, in Baba Yaga, it is large in size, sharp and elongated or bent downward. Here you can show your imagination and make the nose you want. Next, you need to take quite a bit of white plasticine into work, divide it into two equal parts. From each you need to first form balls, and then turn them into cakes. You need to glue black balls on them - these will be the eyes.

The next step is to arm yourself with a round tip stack. With its help, you need to form eye sockets on the face of Baba Yaga. In place of the dents, you must place the eyes made earlier. Now you need to take blue plasticine (the color may differ depending on availability and imagination).We sculpt a scarf from it, tied up. Then you need to take gray or white plasticine into work. From a small amount, you first need to form two short sausages - these will be the eyebrows. They need to be fixed above the eyes. Several sausages of the same color need to be rolled up and glued around the perimeter of the head - this is gray hair.

At the final stage of the design of the front part, you need to take a little brown plasticine and make 2-3 small balls out of it - these are warts. They need to be stuck on the front part - the nose, near the eye (different options). With the help of a stack, you need to make a mouth.

This completes the face design (the most difficult part in this work). In the lower part (where the neck is usually located), you need to stick a match in the head so that it goes about 1/3. This part can be put aside for now, since it is necessary to move on to the formation of the torso. To do this, you need to take red plasticine and form an oval out of it. In this case, the figure should not be perfectly flat - a hump must be made on the back. You need to make hands from the material of the same color - two identical sausages. They must be attached to the sides of the body, and then the entire workpiece must be connected to the head. The fixture in this case will be the same match.

Now you need to make a skirt. To do this, you need to take green plasticine, first form a rectangle, and then roll it into a layer. On one elongated side, cuts must be made with a plastic knife. Then the layer must be rolled into a tube (but not particularly narrow) and attached to the overall figure. In this case, the notched edges should be at the bottom. They need to be stretched a little to the outside - a kind of stand is obtained from the skirt.

In principle, Baba Yaga is ready. But, if you wish, you can add an invariable attribute to it - a broom. You can make an accessory from a cotton swab and black plasticine. The process is as follows:

• using scissors, one soft roller must be cut off from the stick;
• fluff the other a little, glue over with black plasticine;
• cut the edges with a plastic knife.

Baba Yaga is ready from plasticine. The broom can be attached to the arm.

You can mold plasticine Baba Yaga using additional natural materials. In this case, you will need:

• a set of plasticine;
• an oblong bump;
• toothpick;
• acorn hat.

From tools: a modeling board, a stack with a round tip, a plastic knife.

The process of sculpting the face is no different from the previous version: the oval of the face, eyes, nose and mouth remain the same. Further, the stage-by-stage creation of a fairy-tale character is as follows.

• You need to place an acorn hat on your head.
• The head is glued to the bump.
• Form hands from green plasticine and glue them on the sides.
• Next, you need to take a large piece of brown plasticine into work, form a cylinder out of it. Make a depression on one side of the figure - this will be a stupa.
• Place the body of Baba Yaga in a mortar.

In order for the stupa to look natural, you need to apply a cross-section with a toothpick. As a result, the visual effect should be created that the stupa is made of planks. There is another design option for a stupa. This requires ice cream sticks of the same size (available for purchase). They need to stick around a plasticine mortar in a circle. Then form two flat ribbons from brown plasticine - these will be screeds. One must be glued in a circle to the top of the stupa, and the other to the bottom.

In order for a cobbled figure to turn out beautiful and of high quality, it is necessary to follow some recommendations. They are as follows.

• For work, it is better to choose classic plasticine. The modern lightweight version is not suitable, since it has insufficient adhesiveness.
• Before using natural materials, they must be cleaned of dirt, carefully washed and dried well.
• Before playing with the figure, you can put it in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes to make it harder.
• If in the prepared set there was no beige color for sculpting the face, then you can do it yourself. To do this, add a little brown or red to the white plasticine and mix well until a uniform shade is obtained.

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