Keychains made of light plasticine

Light (airy) plasticine is a soft mass that has the ability to harden in air. Thanks to these properties, crafts made from this material, after drying, do not change their shape, become strong and lightweight. This article will discuss what crafts you can create from it and how to make a variety of key rings step by step.

It is a pleasure to create crafts from light plasticine. It does not need to be kneaded, it is elastic, stretches well, easy to shape. The surface of the mass is smooth, velvety to the touch.

This material has its own characteristics, consisting in the ability of the mass to quickly harden in the open air. After hardening, it can no longer be used for its intended purpose.

When working with air clay, you must adhere to a number of tips.

• Hands should be clean and dry. It is not allowed to get water on the product during and after work.
• Too soft plasticine can withstand air for some time - until excess moisture disappears.
• To prevent the mass from hardening, all actions must be performed quickly. You should not create separate blanks, planning to finalize and assemble them over time, otherwise the parts may dry out. If, nevertheless, this happened, the joints must be moistened.
• To make the figures stronger, it is recommended to connect individual parts using matches or toothpicks.
• When decorating the finished product, it is more convenient to apply patterns by squeezing the liquid mass directly from the bag onto the solidified surface.You can also prepare a template with the desired pattern, pour the mass into it, let it harden, and then fix it in the right place.
• Dry the crafts carefully, trying not to wrinkle them. Small items dry out within a day, large ones - within a day.

There are many options for creating key fobs. Products in the form of animals made of soft plasticine will look very interesting and original.

To make a panda-shaped keychain, you need the following materials:

• a set of light plasticine;
• set of accessories;
• chain and ring for a keyring;
• beads and pebbles to decorate the product;
• toothpicks or matches;
• stack, plastic knife, sculpting board.

An original gift will be a handmade keychain in the shape of a flower, such as a bright rose. The color of the flower can be very diverse, even unusual. You can make a blue bud.

To create it, you need to prepare:

• bags of light plasticine of the selected shade;
• stack, knife, modeling board;
• a loop with a chain and a ring on which the keys are hung.

To dazzle a keychain in the form of a volumetric flower, perform the following steps in stages:

• work begins with the manufacture of petals, for which 6 small balls are rolled out of blue plasticine, one of them is rolled into a flat ribbon, and the rest are flattened, turning into petals;
• the middle of the rose is made from the ribbon, for this it is carefully twisted with a spiral;
• quickly and glue the remaining petals to the resulting bud.

A loop with a long tail is inserted into the resulting flower, on which there are a chain and a ring.

After drying, the pendant is ready. Exactly according to the same scheme, you can blind pansies, an orchid or a peony.

Modeling of complex products is designed for older children. But kids can do a simple craft with their own hands. For example, a pendant in the shape of a golden heart.

For work you will need:

• light yellow plasticine;
• loop with a ring.

The algorithm of actions is as follows:

• you need to take a piece of yellow mass and roll a ball out of it;
• the bottom of the ball should be sharpened and pulled down;
• in the upper part of the figure, you need to push in a recess.

The resulting blank is shaped into a heart. A loop is inserted into the recess.

A more sophisticated heart can be created from multi-colored plasticine.

They do it like this:

• small pieces of a mass of purple, blue, white flowers are rolled into thin long flagella, they are folded together along their length and twisted;
• the resulting multicolor sausage is laid out in the shape of a heart.

The resulting keychain will be a graceful heart shape, hollow in the middle.

How to make keychains from light plasticine with your own hands, see the video below.