What can children mold from plasticine?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

For preschoolers, there are a great many entertaining and interesting things, a separate place among which belongs to modeling from such a great material as plasticine. Using this type of creativity, parents successfully instill in their beloved children the desire to create, develop children's imagination, and stimulate the imagination. In addition, manual fine motor skills are wonderfully worked out.

It is important that a kid busy making plasticine figures quietly learns to work and occupy himself, that is, he takes important steps towards independence.

What can we mold?

Before the start of the "session" of modeling, any mother thinks - what can be molded from plasticine that is light, beautiful, original and does not require much time? To answer it, it is enough to turn on the fantasy and imagine yourself in the place of the baby. Remember what interests your son or daughter the most? Do not forget about that additional material, the presencewhich may imply plasticine crafts. We are talking about leaves, flowers, cones, acorns, chestnuts, seeds, etc.

Let's think together - what can be molded from plasticine with a child? Anything!

1. Figurines of birds and animals. The greatest delight in kids is caused by funny little animals in the form of turtles, bunnies, hedgehogs, etc. They are molded easily and simply, and they bring a lot of joy!
2. What else can be molded from plasticine? Figurines on different topics! For example, on New Year's Eve. After all, this holiday is a special and always long-awaited event in the life of a baby. On the eve of the desired date, you can do modeling plasticine crafts in the form of a Christmas tree, a snowman and a variety of toys. It will cheer up both adults and children.
3. Flowers and compositions from them, created together with a child, are a great field for creativity. With the smallest you can sculpt flowers with a minimum number of details, with older children - complex, voluminous and very beautiful compositions.
4. Lepim trees. Such a craft is already one of the more difficult ones, and at first the baby will most likely not be able to mold a plasticine tree on his own. But if you start the process and show you how to complete it, the end result could be an amazing plasticine tree!

And what else can be molded from plasticine? Food, all sorts of goodies. It is possible to create sweets, any fruits and vegetables. Such a task is within the power of even the smallest sculptors. Mom's role is to choose the material of the required color and throw a couple of creativeideas.

So, let's get down to this exciting activity. We prepare the place (we cover the desktop with a newspaper or polyethylene to keep it clean), we arm ourselves with cardboard, a stack and, if necessary, with additional improvised materials. Below are a few ideas for modeling plasticine of any tones of a wide variety of products.

Sculpting a hedgehog

Our forest animal - something that can be molded from plasticine - will have real thorns. And how to achieve this - read on. Even the smallest artist will make such a funny rodent.

The basis will be brown plasticine. We form a large ball from it, then slightly stretch the workpiece, giving it a teardrop shape. From tiny pieces of plasticine, together with the children, we sculpt eyes, a nose and attach it to the body.

Now the most important thing - the needles for the hedgehog. We get them from seeds, deepening into the surface of the plasticine figurine upwards with a pointed part. As soon as all the empty places on the hedgehog's body are filled with neat rows of vertically protruding seeds, we carefully plant the figure on a cardboard circle. Our mini sculpture is ready!

Sculpting a turtle

And what else can be molded from plasticine? An excellent specimen for your collection of plasticine crafts is a funny turtle. How does she mold? First, you should prepare a number of circles of different sizes, the base for which should be green and brown. From a large brown circle we form a turtle"shell", small circles of the same tone are flattened into small cakes and fastened on top to the shell, depicting a characteristic tortoiseshell color.

Equip the prepared body with paws and a head molded from a green bar, giving them the characteristic shape of turtle flippers. On a rounded muzzle, make a recess for the eye, and also scratch the mouth and nose-holes with a toothpick. Eyes are made from small pieces of white plasticine placed in pre-prepared recesses. Above - a black lozenge-pupil.

Sculpt birds "Angry Birds"

Modern kids will be happy to make plasticine characters in the form of heroes of popular cartoons. Who does not know the "evil" birds? Such a craft is molded quite easily.

The base here should be blue. We roll three large circles and six small circles from it. Small circles go to the formation of "tufts" placed on the body. Similarly to the previous case, round eyes with convex dark pupils are formed from white pieces of plasticine. To convey different emotions of plasticine birds, the eyes can be given a different shape, the pupils can be shifted, etc.

Red plasticine noses with a characteristic "beak expression" are molded separately and attached below the eye. Behind the birds - small black tails. Such figures look very realistic and can cause a storm of delight in kids.

Beautiful rowan tree

This tree is molded very easily. It does not require a lot of time or complex efforts. It will be possible to recognize it by its characteristic fruits among the green lush "foliage".

The trunk and crown are made from the base of brown and green colors. A large green ball imitating the crown of a tree is carefully placed on a vertical trunk. Having pinched off a tiny piece of plasticine many times, we roll up a large number of red small balls and oblong green "leaves". Then we carefully form rowan clusters with which we decorate our crown from above.

Lepim sweets

This is really a simple and very exciting activity! Lollipops, which can be molded from plasticine without much effort, will look like no one can tell from the real ones! How to do it: we form a lot of balls of various colors, roll the selected ones into a sausage (for example, orange and white), then pull thin threads from the sausages and twist them into pigtails. The resulting two-color design is folded into a spiral. This will be one of the blanks.

From plasticine of other colors (for example, green and light blue), we twist another spiral in the same way and make a flat blank of a round "candy". Cylindrical spiral "caramel" is made from two rolled rollers intertwined with each other. We put each of the three resulting bases on a match.

Plasticine bouquet

What can be molded from plasticine beautiful? Bouquet of roseswill be a touching gift for mom from a baby, for example, by the day of March 8. It glides on easily and simply. You will need a base of only three colors - red, green and pink. Green plasticine is rolled into a sausage and cut into 7 pieces, which are pulled out by stems. A sausage is molded from a pink blank in the same way, divided into several parts and rolled into small graceful spirals. These will be our roses, the number is according to the number of green stems to which pink spiral buds are neatly attached.

From red plasticine, rolling it into a thin ribbon, we have to fashion a bow that will decorate our wonderful bouquet. The ends of the "ribbons" can be curled into spirals.

Crafts for the New Year

Their making is the most suitable activity for the winter holidays. Blinded mini-sculptures are recommended to be placed on cardboard stands. If the crafts turned out to be successful, they will wonderfully decorate the interior of the baby's room.

How to make a New Year's snowman? The base is made of white and blue plasticine. An oblong-shaped sausage is molded from an orange piece - a scarf for a snowman. The formed orange flagellum is wound around the ball, a "fringe" is scratched at the ends with a toothpick.

In the same way, small buttons and snowman legs are molded from small orange pieces, as well as bright orange mittens that are attached to plasticine "hands". All parts are attached to the body.

A head with a carrot nose and eyes is molded from white plasticine. Don't forget your hatthe same cheerful orange color! To securely connect the body with the head, we recommend using a match on which both parts are mounted.

How to make a Christmas toy

Even if such toys do not end up on a real Christmas tree, a festive mood for the whole family is guaranteed! What are the stages of sculpting such jewelry? We take the base of 4 any shades and sculpt circles. One of them (for example, blue) is flattened into a large flat cake. We roll out the other circles, forming sausages, twist them into spirals and beautifully place them on the base cake.

The shape and size of spirals can be any. It all depends on the imagination of the creators. "Rope" can be attached to a toy from a black base. This craft can be attached to a piece of cardboard or placed directly on the Christmas tree.

And now we sculpt the Christmas tree itself

Do you know that you can mold plasticine and the main symbol of the holiday - a green tree! How to make a Christmas tree out of plasticine? We will use improvised means - scissors and a bamboo stick.

At the beginning of work, we make a green plasticine cone. For stability, we string it on a bamboo stick or just on a pencil. On the entire surface of the workpiece, carefully make small cuts, placing them in a checkerboard pattern. Each of the resulting "needles" should be slightly bent up so that they puff a little on our plasticine base. Such a "embossed" Christmas tree will look real.tree!

Why do kids love to sculpt so much? Think about it - this is a real miracle! From a scattering of colored balls or bright blocks, believable figures are obtained - animals, birds, favorite characters. The results of children's creativity, as a rule, decorate the shelves in children's rooms for a long time or serve for fun games. That is why parents are encouraged to teach the basics of modeling to kids from an early age.

And what else can be molded from plasticine light and funny? Yes, anything! On reflection, you will quickly realize that you can mold plasticine for dolls food and clothes, indoor flowers in pots, tiny toys. You can supplement the "doll park" with plasticine pets of a suitable size. Experienced mothers know that it is possible to mold a girl in an elegant dress from plasticine, which will indescribably please her daughter. But such crafts are already, perhaps, among the complex ones. And our task is to come up with something that can be molded from plasticine a lung together with a baby.

More ideas

We will now try to make a fun green frog! We only need a green bar and a few lumps of white. And an auxiliary tool - a toothpick. We tear off a half of the bar, roll up a couple of balls, slightly different in size, connect them together. If they stick together badly, we hold the pieces together with a broken match.

We attach a couple more small circles to the top of the head-ball. Eyes are then made from them - by attaching white cakes to the front (black pupils from above). The nostrils and mouth of the frog are marked with a toothpick. The hind legs are formed from thin curved "sausages". Make one side flat in the shape of flippers. Remember the pose of a sitting frog and attach the front legs (shorter than the hind ones) to the body with the fingers scratched with the same toothpick. Even a preschooler will cope with the manufacture of such a figurine.

Sculpting a ladybug

For crafts in the form of this cute bug, you will need blocks of plasticine of different colors and small pieces of wire. They can be replaced with carnation bristles from an old metal comb. In addition, beads and a small spatula.

First, we roll up a couple of rounded parts (smaller black and larger red), tightly squeeze each other. Get the head and body. The back is decorated with a row of black cakes. With the help of a spatula, a line is drawn dividing the wings. Beads are inserted into the eyes.

Pieces of wire or small nails are stuck on both sides of the body as paws, three on each side. A couple more of the same metal parts are attached to the front of the insect's head and depict antennae. In conclusion, you can make a cake from green plasticine, give it the shape of a leaf and draw veins with a carnation or spatula. A finished craft is planted on this leaf.

Make plasticine fish

For such a simple craft, plasticine of various colors and beads as eyes are also suitable. From a certain color (for example, red), we sculpt an oval part, and also in advancewe prepare flat small cakes of the same color (for the tail and fins). Having given them the desired shape, we attach to the body from above, below and behind. Decorate with arbitrary notches with a toothpick or carnation.

The back of our fish can be decorated with several colored stripes, for example, yellow on red. Scales are imitated by applying a spatula to plasticine with a wide side and squeezing out small characteristic notches. The front part is slightly incised - we get the mouth. Beads of absolutely any color are suitable for the eyes.

Crafts on the theme of space

This topic, as a rule, is always interesting for children. The idea of molding a plasticine rocket with your own hands most often finds a lively response in the heart of a young sculptor. As usual, stock up on blocks of this versatile material in different colors, as well as a stack and a modeling board, which can be easily replaced with a sheet of oilcloth.

Having chosen the color of the rocket body, warm up the material in the palms (teach the child to do this), then form the ball with light circular motions. From it we get an elongated product, slightly pointed upwards. The nose and base are decorated with thin red stripes, one of the sides is decorated with a row of round portholes made of blue plasticine.

Stand in the form of 3 identical symmetrical triangles is molded separately, then glued to the bottom of the case. A "flame" of a bright orange hue can be glued to the bottom of the rocket. If you put such a craft in the refrigerator, it will harden well and the child will be able to start an exciting game.

Crafts for Easter

This holidaydisposes to all kinds of needlework. Of course, the most familiar attribute of it is Easter eggs. Before starting work, you should stock up on fine-grained hardening plasticine, egg shells and, as always, a stack, stand, and a pencil.

The preparatory work is to get an empty egg. A chicken egg is taken and the contents are carefully removed through a couple of tiny holes made on both sides. The shell is washed and dried thoroughly. The child should be explained that such material as the shell is rather fragile and should be handled with care. It will be good to sketch out sketches of future drawings on a piece of paper in advance.

The surface of the shell is filled with plasticine balls of one of the selected colors. This is how we get the background. The pattern is squeezed out by the stack, the excess plastic mass is removed. "Gaps" in the pattern are filled with splashes of a different color. After that, the egg is rolled out in the palms to obtain a flat surface without bumps or gaps.

Another option is to draw a contour of the picture on the shell with a pencil and fill it with the desired tone. The rest of the space is neatly plastered with the color chosen for the background. Then the surface is exactly the same leveled. Easter plasticine crafts are good to decorate the interior of the house for the holiday.

Making a plasticine house

Such a fabulous house, most likely, will cause genuine delight in your baby and is suitable for a fun game. As materials, prepare plasticine bars of green, red, brown and white, as well astoothpick, plastic stack and ballpoint pen. The basis of the house will be a white bar. We knead it and give it a square shape. The technology is simple - a round blank on each side is pressed against cardboard or oilcloth with the palm of your hand.

The resulting white cube is supplied with a brown roof. The workpiece is molded in the form of a pyramid and decorated on top with a "tile" made of many miniature brown balls flattened into a cake. Each element of the tile is pressed through the stack and acquires the texture of a wooden board.

The roof is connected to the base, then from the same brown mass, cut into thin strips, the corners and contours of the windows are framed. From a small brown block, flattened in the shape of a rectangle or rounded at the top with an oval, is a door to which a tiny handle is attached. The wooden texture of all details is drawn with a toothpick.

The bottom of the house is bordered by a green strip imitating grass. With the help of a ballpoint pen or a stack, an interesting and varied plant texture is attached to it. Exactly the same mini lawn can be stuck at the bottom of the window. The grass around the house is decorated with bright red flowers made from miniature plasticine balls. The architectural ensemble is completed with an arc-shaped visor of the same brown color attached above the door.