What crafts can be molded from plasticine?
At the age of one and a half to three years, you can start modeling with your child. By developing hand motility with the help of plasticine, children develop faster, acquire useful qualities, such as perseverance, patience, creative thinking, imagination. After 4 years, babies already get quite recognizable figures.
How to work with the material correctly?
Plasticine tends to harden, especially in cool environments. To soften, it should be kneaded for a long time in the hands. If the child is too young, the adult will have to help him. You can speed up the process by holding the bar under a stream of warm water.
For kids, it is better to purchase a set of light or airy plasticine. It is a colorful material, soft, flexible, easy to mold and does not leave greasy marks.
In the first lessons, invite your baby to simply tear off the pieces from the bar. Then teach him how to roll balls. Let him connect them the way he likes, he will be able to see the fruits of his labor.
What is necessary?
Before you start creative, you should prepare the material and your workplace. Put a special board or oilcloth on the table, then the table top will remain clean. You will need a plastic knife (stack) for cutting plasticine, prepare a rolling pin or bottle for rolling out cakes.
You can decorate your work with beads, buttons, beans, shells and other suitable elements.
Volumetric paintings and panels
An interesting gift can be a postcard, a picture or a plasticine panel, for example, with a composition of flowers or a still life of vegetables.Heavy material will not hold on to paper, so prepare cardboard for work. We offer a master class on making a panel with a sakura twig.
- Roll out the brown plasticine rope, cut into pieces and lay the branch on the cardboard.
- Dot into lots of small pink cakes and roll up into tiny yellow balls.
- From the prepared elements, make flowers with five petals and a yellow center.
- Decorate the branch with flowers.
- Make two multi-colored braids and make a border for the panel.
Figurines of people
When sculpting little people, the correct proportions should be observed:
- the head from the body is 1 / 7-1 / 8 part;
- the waist is approximately in the middle of the figure;
- drooping hands should not reach the knees.
We will tell you step by step how to mold a figurine.
- For the head, roll a white plasticine ball and lengthen it slightly.
- Shape the nose, draw the lips, blind the eyes from white and black material, outline the eyebrows.
- Sculpt a bar-shaped shirt with 2 short sleeves.
- Prepare the same block for trousers, cut it longitudinally, dividing it into 2 legs.
- Roll up your sausage arms and block feet. Collect the little man from the elements.
Beautiful animals
Children are happy to mold models of a raccoon, horse, zebra and even a whole zoo from ordinary plasticine. We offer to fashion a beautiful baby elephant.
- Roll 2 balls of different sizes from the gray bar.
- Slightly lengthen the large ball (body) and connect to the head.
- Make 4 tapered legs. From the wide end on each leg, glue 3 fingers, rolling them into peas of white plasticine.
- Using fragments of matches, connect the legs to the body.
- Attach a carrot-like ponytail at the back.
- And glue 2 large cakes (ears) to the head.
- Sculpt the trunk and make a depression with a pencil on one side, connect to the head.
- For the muzzle, blind the eyes and 2 white canines. Connect.
How to make birds?
Everyone can fashion their favorite bird, even from cartoons, for example, Angry Birds. And let's blind them.
- Roll 3 large balls and 6 small balls out of blue plasticine.
- The large balls are the bodies of the birds. From small ones, mold oblong parts in the form of forelocks and set them on the tops.
- Use white, black and red plasticine to blind the eyes, as in the picture. Arrange them so that they convey different emotions.
- Form the beaks from the red material, and the tails from the black material.
The birds turned out to be similar to each other, but their emotions are different.
Modeling plants
The diversity of flora gives rise to many ideas. For example, you can sculpt a water lily flower, rowan bunches, gorgeous palm leaves, a magic tree. We propose to make a simple, but everyone's favorite Christmas tree.
- Make a neat cone from green plasticine.
- Take a sharpened stick or pencil as a trunk and place a plasticine blank on it.
- Then use scissors to make triangular cuts on the cone in a checkerboard pattern, starting at the top of the head.
- Fold each cut up slightly. The result is a beautiful and realistic Christmas tree.
What else can you dazzle?
You can mold any crafts with your own hands from plasticine - from toys to the planet Earth. We will tell you step by step how to do this.
Sweets
All children love sweets, they mold them with interest from plasticine. We will tell you step by step how to make toy candy on sticks.
- Form orange, red, yellow and white balls.
- Take the halves of an orange and white ball, roll long thin strings out of them.
- Twist them into a flagellum, and then gently roll them in a spiral. The first candy is ready.
- Make yellow and white strings, put them side by side and gently twist them in a spiral. The second candy is ready.
- Make two large sausages from red and orange plasticine, twist them into a thick rope. Put each candy on a match.
Dishes
You can sculpt a variety of plasticine dishes for a dollhouse. We will tell you how easy it is to make a beautiful plate.
- Roll a blue plasticine ball.
- Press down with your palm to release the cake.
- Make a print on the plate with a smaller round object, forming a rim.
- Roll 10-12 white balls, make tiny cakes from them and decorate the side of the plate with them.
- Form a thin rope and line it with edging around the product.
Planet
Anyone interested can make a solar system with all its planets out of plasticine. We will tell you step by step how to sculpt one of them - the Earth.
- Use a rolling pin to roll a block of green plasticine into a large, thin plate. Looking at the globe, cut the continents out of it in a stack, trying to make their contours as accurate as possible. For Antarctica, use white.
- Roll the same plate out of a blue bar and stick it around a plastic ball. Spread the clay over the surface of the ball until it is completely smooth.
Looking at the globe, try to correctly place the continents on the ball.
Insects
Flies, butterflies, bugs and spiders are all insects, from their huge team we have chosen a beautiful dragonfly.
- To make the insect colorful, we will make it from material with beautiful colored stains. To do this, mix red and green plasticine into a single ball. Combine the yellow and orange colors in the same way.
- From the first blank, mold a long sausage - the body of a dragonfly. Make notches from the tail as shown in the figure.
- Form 2 large and 2 small wings in the form of long petals from a yellow-orange ball. Draw longitudinal stripes, making the wings embossed.
- Connect the wings to the torso.
- Sculpt round eyes and place them on the dragonfly's head.
Aquarium
We will make an aquarium using a transparent plastic disk case.
- Cover one half of the case with blue paper.
- Roll thin threads from green plasticine, flatten them and twist them in several places. Glue the sculpted algae onto the blue surface of the aquarium.
- Form pebbles from the gray and brown shades of plasticine and place them on the bottom.
- Now dazzle the colorful fish. Make three droplet bodies. Attach eyes, small fins and tails to them.
- Place the fish in the aquarium.
- Use tiny circles of plasticine to depict the bubbles coming from each fish.
- Close the case cover. The aquarium is ready.
Fairy tale characters
Fairy tales are interesting to many children, they are happy to sculpt a perky Cipollino or a complex figure of a hero. We offer to mold a kolobok, such a craft can be done even by the smallest ones.
- Sculpt a neat ball out of yellow plasticine.
- Make two small white cakes and place tiny black circles on top of them. Glue the finished eyes to the bun.
- Roll up a miniature nose ball and place it in the center of the face.
- Make 10 orange balls, distribute them around the cheeks.
- Draw a smiling mouth in a stack.
Make a forelock from the dark yellow material, and the arms and legs from the orange material as in the picture.
Fruits and berries
Each fruit is beautiful in its own way. But a banana with the peel half open looks especially attractive. Let's try to portray him in plasticine.
- Prepare 2 plasticine balls - yellow and white.
- Roll the yellow ball into a thick sausage.
- Cut it crosswise on one side with a stack.
- Peel the peel back to reveal the fruit.
- Shape a sausage out of white plasticine and bend it slightly.
- Using a match, combine the peel with the fruit.
- Stack cracks in the peel.
- The half-uncovered banana is ready.
Vegetables
From the vegetable garden, we have chosen a fruit of a beautiful purple color - eggplant. It is not difficult to manufacture, it can be sculpted with babies.
- Roll an oval blank with ends of different thicknesses from purple plasticine.
- Curl it slightly to shape the eggplant.
- Make a flat cake out of the green material and cut out a sepal in the shape of a hexagonal star.Blind a small green ponytail.
- Attach the sepal to the narrow side of the fruit and fold the leaves down. Fasten the ponytail on top. It turned out to be an appetizing eggplant.
Cannons
Cannons, tanks, airplanes are the boys' favorite theme. We will tell them how you can mold guns from plasticine.
- Roll a cone-shaped blank from a brown block, it will be the muzzle of a cannon.
- Blind a thin, dark gray flagellum and wrap it around the barrel. Make beautiful notches on the tourniquet.
- Make a piece in the form of a thick sausage, bend one end up and the other down. It turned out to be a stand.
- Place the muzzle on it.
- Use the dark gray material to make 2 Round Cakes. Push the pattern in a stack, as shown in the picture. Wheels turned out.
- Install the wheels on both sides of the cannon. The boy's toy is ready.
House
To mold a house from plasticine logs, we need a small frame box and some cardboard for the roof.
- The number of logs depends on the height of the box. Roll out as many pieces as necessary to cover the walls on all sides.
- Attach the logs to the walls of the box.
- Roll out the gray plasticine. Fold the cardboard in half to create a gable roof.
- Glue the rolled plasticine to the cardboard. Draw a tile-like pattern on the surface.
- Place the triangular pieces on top of the logs on both sides, and slide the roof over them.
- Make a square window out of blue plasticine, select the vents, install the shutters from pieces of yellow material.
Glue the round window to the attic. Install the pipe.
Volcano
Let's make a volcano from plasticine at the time of the eruption.
- To do this, mold a squat cone with an uneven surface from a brown block.
- In the upper part, using a pencil or stick, make a hole - the mouth of a volcano.
- Form a white plasticine cake and paste over the top of the cone, depicting a snowy peak.
- Combine red and yellow plasticine, roll up flagella from them.
- Set them up so that you can see how magma erupts from the volcano.
- Draw longitudinal cracks along the cone with a stack.
- Roll green plasticine into a sausage and place it around the base of the volcano. Work on the blank with a toothpick, creating the texture of grass or forest.
- It turned out to be a fire-breathing mountain, it looks like a plasticine volcano.
Heart
We will tell you how to make a red loving heart together with Cupid's arrow.
- To do this, cut a bar of scarlet plasticine in half and roll 2 balls.
- Put them together. Leave the upper part unchanged, and pull out the lower part to make a heart. Level the surface of the product on all sides.
- Roll up two sausages, bend slightly and attach to the heart in the form of handles, highlight the fingers with a stack.
- Make legs, attach them to the bottom of the heart. Roll up the black balls and put them on the legs in the form of boots.
- Make eyes and a nose for the heart, and just draw a smile.
- Take a match, make a tip from plasticine on one side, and a feather on the other. Insert an arrow into the hand of a loving heart. The figurine can be presented to someone who is dear.
The sun
The sun is a simple and cute figurine, you can connect kids to creativity.
- Take two blocks of plasticine. Roll the yellow bar into a ball, the orange one cut longitudinally into narrow strips.
- Form long triangles (rays) from the strips.
- Attach them in a circle to the yellow ball.
- Use a match to push through the two eye sockets and the mouth strip.
- Blind and insert the eyes and mouth. Roll up a tiny ball-nose, set in the center of the muzzle.
A beautiful colorful sun is ready.
Transformer
The Bumblebee robot, or any other that can transform, is very attracted to boys. The craft consists of many details; in terms of complexity, it is more suitable for schoolchildren.
- Roll 2 green plasticine balls. From a small one, make a helmet by inserting a blue plate in the form of glass into it.Form the upper part of the robot's torso from a large ball and connect it to the head.
- Take a blue plasticine, mold a display out of it, attach it to the chest of the transformer. Add the lower part of the torso, making it curly as shown.
- Collect two large legs from six fragments. Attach the finished limbs to the body.
- Move on to making hands. For two limbs, you need 6 rectangles of different sizes. Make arms out of them and attach them to the robot's shoulders.
- Use a stack and a toothpick to make stripes and other patterns on the body of the transformer.
- Decorate the legs and waistband of the robot with yellow and black stripes.
- Use skewers or matches to hold all parts together.
What to sculpt with natural materials?
The most beautiful children's plasticine crafts are obtained in combination with natural material. An acorn, cone or walnut shell can be the basis for any figurine. The work, decorated with shells, groats, bugles, buttons, looks richer and richer. We offer to make a hedgehog from plasticine, using ordinary seeds instead of needles.
- Prepare a handful of large seeds. Roll a brown plasticine ball.
- Stretch it to one side to create a drop-shaped blank.
- Form the hedgehog's face from the narrow part of the body. Make and attach the eyes. Roll up a tiny ball-nose and place it on the tip of the muzzle.
- On the body, at the head of the hedgehog, attach the first row of seeds, narrow end up. Then set the seeds row by row until the entire hedgehog is covered with needles.
- The result is an animal very similar to a natural forest dweller.
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