Plasticine crafts for children 7 years old
Plasticine modeling is a favorite pastime for many children. Even schoolchildren like to create beautiful figurines and paintings from this material. In the article, we will look at interesting examples for modeling that are suitable for children at the age of 7.
Modeling of volumetric paintings
Crafts for children of 7 years old can be made in the form of volumetric paintings. Soft plasticine can be smeared on cardboard or Whatman paper, because this material can be drawn like with finger paints.
Crafts can be created on various topics, it is convenient to print the finished drawing, preferably with large details, and stick it on thick cardboard for further work.
Consider several step-by-step options for children's paintings from plasticine.
Chanterelle
Most often, children are happy to mold the heroes of fairy tales, the chanterelle will certainly interest the children, especially in such an interesting performance.
- First, you need to tackle the background, for which you need blue and cyan shades. Cut strips from a piece of plasticine and roll them into thin sausages.
- Twist the ends in opposite directions and arrange them on the cardboard in any order, partially overlapping the strips. Blue should prevail.
- Next up is the fox. Roll a piece of orange plasticine into a thin layer and cut out the outline of a fox with a pointed muzzle and small ears.
- From a smaller piece, make a tail by sculpting a white tip. Make notches along the entire figurine in a stack.
- It remains only to mark the nose and eyes with a black tint.
- Add the chanterelle to the background.
Bunny
This picture is drawn using the technique of stretching the plasticine mass over an already finished drawing. Any picture will do, in this case a hare. Take a small ball of plasticine, place it on the selected area and stretch it with your finger, applying slight pressure.
When the hare is ready, you can make a background, for example, in the form of trees or a meadow, using green plasticine.
Vase with Flowers
This craft will be a wonderful gift for mom on March 8th. The work is done according to the standard technique of rolling plasticine. First, the outline of the drawing is built, and then it is filled with plasticine strips.
For convenience, it is recommended to first draw the vase and flowers on the cardboard, and then only fill the drawing with a mass.
You can choose the color scheme yourself.
- First of all, you need to make the outline of the vase using long sausages.
- Next, fill the inside of the vase with diagonal stripes. In this case, you can dream up and use several different colors.
- Then we mark the green stems and the outline of the flowers. We fill the petals in an arched manner, gradually reducing the internal space. Use bright shades of blue, red, orange, or purple. The brighter the drawing, the more beautiful it looks.
- It remains to sculpt the table. It is recommended to choose a neutral shade: gray, brown, marsh, or use each color in turn. Roll out the sausages and arrange them horizontally on either side of the vase.
Figurine ideas
Seven-year-olds can already be allowed to sculpt more complex figures.
Hedgehog from "Smeshariki"
To sculpt a cartoon character, you need raspberry, purple and white shades.
- Roll a large ball of pink material for the torso.
- Next, make four teardrop-shaped pieces that will act as arms and legs.
- Blind twelve cones from the purple mass and distribute them over the entire head of the hedgehog.
- Roll out a small slice of raspberry plasticine and cut out a rectangle. Stick it in the middle of the face and smooth the edges to create a convex muzzle.
- Make two short sausages from lilac plasticine, these will be the eyebrows. From two small balls of a crimson hue, you will get ears, and a nose from a red triangle.
- To make the eyes, take two round white layers and add a black ball each. The resulting eyes need to be circled with thin sausages and glasses are formed.
Giraffe
You will need yellow and orange colors here, as well as a toothpick for stability.
- Roll up a large oval and four small cones to be used as legs.
- Place the oval torso on your legs and lock tightly.
- Roll out the sausage to form the neck, and insert the toothpick inside so that the ends of the toothpick stick out on both sides.
- Insert the neck with one end into the torso and start making the muzzle.
- Roll a neat oval, on one side you need to slightly flatten the end, forming a nose. Make the ears from leaf-shaped layers of yellow mass, and the eyes from white balls.
- Put everything together and place the resulting head on your neck.
- Roll small balls out of orange plasticine and dot them all over the body and neck of the giraffe. The figurine is ready.
What can be molded from light plasticine?
Light plasticine differs from the standard one in a more pliable texture, from which you can mold figures of any complexity. After drying, the mass hardens and becomes solid.
The main feature of such crafts is that they do not collect dust, so they can be used as decoration.
Elephant
You will need blue, pink, white and black shades.
- First, roll out one large and four small balls of blue mass.
- A large ball will be used as a torso and head, four small ones will be legs. Roll up small cylinders and press lightly, then place them tightly to each other and secure the torso on top.
- Additionally roll out a long sausage with a slightly tapered end and set it as a trunk.
- Roll out two ovals, complement them with pink layers and set them on the sides of the head. Attach a tail at the back. Use small white balls to make eyes by making black pupils.
Octopus
Even a preschooler can handle such a craft. Use purple, yellow, pink, white and blue tones. Roll one large oval for the body and eight sausages from the purple mass, from which you will get tentacles. Connect the sausages together, and set the torso on top. Make the whites of the eyes from white plasticine, from blue pupils.
Use the pink material for the mouth. Roll the yellow mass into circles and decorate the resulting octopus with them.
Caterpillar
Roll out nine colored balls and fasten them together to form a torso. Roll the black plasticine into a very thin sausage and cut it into short pieces in a stack. Use them as legs. Decorate your head with eyes, a nose and a smile from black plasticine.
Tiger cub
This figure requires only two shades of plasticine mass: orange and black.
- Roll a circle and an oval of orange material and stick them on top of each other, you get a head and torso, on which you need to mark the navel with the tip of the stack.
- Next, roll four sausages with a tapered end on one side, and make cuts on the wider part to form legs.
- Our tiger cub is sitting, so the hind legs need to be attached perpendicular to the body, and the front legs along it.
- Make pointed ears from small pieces of plasticine, mark the parts of the muzzle in black.
- Roll up a long, thin sausage and cut it in a stack into short pieces, stick on the body. It turns out a striped tiger cub.
For information on how to sculpt from plasticine, see the next video.