Plasticine molding for babies

Sculpting is a useful form of creativity that helps develop fine motor skills and children's imagination. Kids can work with plasticine at a very early age. To captivate the child with this type of creativity, it is worth choosing the most interesting ideas for classes.

Working with plasticine brings many benefits to the youngest children. She helps the child develop:

• fine motor skills;
• tactile sensitivity;
• attentiveness;
• perseverance;
• creative thinking.

When starting to work with plasticine, parents should teach the child the following manipulations:

• knead this soft material with your hands;
• roll balls with palms;
• form sausages from them;
• make recesses on the surface of the figures;
• flatten plasticine blanks;
• smear plasticine on cardboard, forming applications.

Having mastered these simple skills, you can start creating full-fledged figures.

It is very important to choose the most suitable type of plasticine for the job. It must be of high quality. Such material does not stick to hands and does not stain them. As a rule, for sculpting figures with children, parents choose one of the following types of plasticine.

• Classical. This material looks bright enough to create beautiful, durable crafts. It is elastic and soft. Different colors mix easily with each other. Moreover, such plasticine is quite hard.Therefore, it can be difficult for babies to work with.

• Ball. This embossed plasticine is especially popular with young children. It consists of colored balls connected with special glue. Ball plasticine massages hands during work. It is very easy to sculpt crafts from it.

• Plant-based plasticine. This material is also great for toddlers. He does not harm them in any way. It is very soft and elastic. Even a small child will be pleased to work with him. Beautiful volumetric figures and appliques are made from this material. It is mainly produced by foreign manufacturers.

• Wax. This material is also suitable for the smallest. It is bright and very soft. It is pleasant and convenient to work with him. Individual parts made of wax plasticine are perfectly connected to each other. A child can sculpt even complex figures out of it.

• Floating. This unusual type of plasticine is great for creating various toys that you can play with in the water. They are lightweight and hold their shape well. As a rule, ducks, boats or boats are sculpted from such plasticine. It is easy to work with him for children of any age.

To captivate a small child with this type of creativity, you can sculpt various animals, as well as cartoon or fairy-tale characters with him.

If the child has already learned how to handle plasticine, together with him you can mold a neat figure of a cat. The process of its creation consists of the following stages.

1. First, you need to separate two large pieces from a piece of blue plasticine. The same balls are formed from them.
2. One ball should be made slightly elongated. It is used as the torso of an animal.
3. The head is attached to this part of the body.
4. From five smaller balls, you need to roll short sausages.
5. The legs and tail are attached to the body of the cat. The joints are gently smoothed out by hand.
6. The head of the animal is decorated with small ears.
7. From white plasticine, you need to form a small round ball, which is attached to the cat's chest. The edges of this material should be gently smoothed out with your fingertips.
8. The same white plasticine is used to decorate the cat's face.

With great pleasure, children make figures of dogs with their own hands. To create such a simple craft, the child will need orange and dark brown plasticine.

1. The base of the figurine is made in the form of a neat elongated cone.
2. A large ball is attached to it. If desired, the head and body can be additionally fastened with a toothpick or a match.
3. The dog's paws are made in the form of four balls of the same size. They need to be attached to the base of the shape.
4. Two sausages of the same size must be rolled out of the same material, after which they are slightly flattened and attached to the head of the animal. The ears made in this way must be carefully bent.
5. A large nose and a collar for a dog should be fashioned from brown plasticine.

A child can make such a craft as early as 1-2 years old. It is made from ordinary colored balls. They need to be rolled out of plasticine in advance. After that, the individual parts are attached to each other. The caterpillar should be large and voluminous.It can be bent at will. Small black and white eyes will decorate such a craft.

To create a beautiful bird's nest, you can use soft brown plasticine. The process of sculpting this figurine consists of the following stages.

1. To begin with, one large piece must be separated from the block of plasticine. Cut it into three identical pieces.
2. Two of them need to be rolled into long flagella. The third is to knead and make an even circle out of it.
3. After that, two flagella should be intertwined with each other - this braided part is attached to the round base of the nest.
4. The joints should be gently smoothed out with your fingers.

This is another simple figure that any child can make. To create it, you need to take plasticine of two colors. The snail is very simple to mold.

1. Roll out a sausage pointed at the end of the blue material. This part must be rolled into a tight spiral.
2. The snail's body is made of pink plasticine.
3. The main part of the figure is gently pressed down with your fingers. It is in this place that the shell is later attached.
4. From the same pink plasticine, you need to make a round snail head. It must be decorated with short horns and eyes.

To sculpt a bright ladybug, the baby will need plasticine of three colors and a stack. The step-by-step process for creating a cute character consists of the following steps.

1. To begin with, you need to mold a large ball from red plasticine. It must be flattened on top.
2. The same smaller piece is made of dark brown material.
3. Both circles are neatly connected to each other.
4. From white and brown plasticine, you need to make two eyes, which are located in the center of the muzzle.
5. The remains of brown plasticine are used to decorate the back of a ladybug. A strip is molded from it, which divides the body into two wings, as well as small dots of the same size.

Children's plasticine crafts are also simpler. Kids can sculpt fruits, sweets and flowers from materials of different colors.

The child can use such simple crafts during the game.

• Pie. Material of two colors is used to create an original craft. Two large circles must be rolled out of brown plasticine. One part needs to be shaped into a plate, slightly curving its edges. The second circle is cut into strips of the same width. A large number of grapes are molded from blue plasticine, which are placed in a light brown "plate". Strips are laid on top of the pie with a lattice.

• Ice cream. This is another craft that a 2-3 year old kid can easily cope with. To create it, a piece of plasticine must be gently kneaded in your hands and rolled into a flat circle, then cut into four equal parts with a stack. Each such detail must be twisted into a cone. These figures can be filled with ordinary balls or flagella, twisted into a spiral.

• Donuts. The base of the donuts is molded from plasticine of two colors mixed with each other. For work, material is used in yellow and brown shades. A volumetric ring is formed from this plasticine mass. A flat circle of a suitable size is molded from a pink material. It attaches over the top of the donut. A small circle is cut in the middle of the figure. The edges of this craft are smoothed with your fingertips.

• Lollipops. To sculpt beautiful lollipops, plasticine of two colors must be rolled into long flagella. They need to be connected together and twisted into a spiral or long shape.Bright candies are attached to a toothpick or match. A large number of brightly colored candies can be made using this scheme.

By creating figurines of fruits, the child not only develops fine motor skills, but also gets to know the world around him better.

• Apple. To make a small cute apple, the red plasticine must be rolled into a tight ball. In the middle, you need to make a small notch with your finger. Three leaves must be formed from green plasticine. They are attached to the top of the apple along with a blue shank.

• Banana. A bright banana is molded from white and yellow plasticine. First, roll the white base into a long sausage with pointed edges. Three identical parts need to be formed from yellow plasticine. They are attached to the bottom of the white piece.

• Grape. To sculpt grapes, you need to cut off a large piece from a bar of purple plasticine. It needs to be rolled into a long flagellum and cut into a stack. Each piece must be rolled into a ball. From the remains of plasticine, it is necessary to make a frame of the craft. After that, you need to attach balls prepared in advance to it. You can decorate a bunch of grapes with green leaves. The figurine is beautiful and realistic.

Creating a beautiful craft on the theme of "autumn", a child can mold several bright mushrooms from plasticine. The base of the mushroom is molded from the white material. The long thick sausage is complemented by a flagellum, which is attached to the leg.

A voluminous hat must be fashioned from red plasticine. This piece is attached to the leg and is decorated with small white dots. The figurine can be positioned based on the green color.

A small child will also like to make volumetric applications. Having mastered this simple technique, he will be able to create interesting cards for his loved ones.

• Purple flower. To sculpt a beautiful flower, the baby will need material of three colors, cardboard and a stack. To begin with, four long flagella must be rolled out of plasticine. Three of them are attached to the bottom of the sheet. The fourth plays the role of a stem. Two sheets of the same size are fixed to it. Purple plasticine must be divided into 5 parts. Each of them needs to be rolled into a ball and slightly flattened. All these details are located around the orange core. The craft turns out to be cute and cute.

• Dandelion. You can also decorate such a craft with voluminous dandelions. To decorate the applique, you can use both classic and light plasticine. From it you need to form a long, voluminous sausage. After that, it must be gently smoothed out. Several cuts need to be made on the basis of the strip. This workpiece must be twisted into a tight spiral. The flower petals should be separated. The dandelion turns out to be voluminous and beautiful.

• Rainbow. The kid will also like to create a rainbow from plasticine. To create it, several flagella must be made from pieces of colored material. Each of them bends in the shape of an arch. A new one is attached to the previous layer.

For information on how to sculpt from plasticine, see the next video.