Children's ball plasticine: crafts and applications

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

From the first months of life, the baby is eager to learn. He is interested in absolutely everything around and his curiosity knows no bounds. Emotions and feeling are his first tools to help him explore a new world for him. Speech is not yet developed, but, according to scientists, the baby's hands serve as an auxiliary speech apparatus for the baby. After all, even primitive people at first expressed themselves only with gestures and sounds. Babies first develop hand movements, then articulation of syllables, and the perfection of speech depends on the training of finger movements.

In the toddler period, the baby tries to touch everything with tactile and taste buds, first touching everything with his hands. The development of hands, especially fine movements, is closely related to the development of speech and thinking of the child. That is why it is very important to sculpt from ball plasticine as early as possible, helping the baby and guiding him in the preparatory work with other materials and in mastering different tools.

Benefits of exercise

Ball clay in its structure has a valuable property of ductility, necessary for worksmall hands of babies, especially for children with weak arm muscles, which are very useful for clay modeling classes.

Classes with plasticine, in addition to strengthening muscles, develop imagination, form fantasy, intelligence. Psychologists point to a direct relationship between the degree of development of a child's fantasy and his emerging intellectual abilities. By stimulating the development of the child's imagination with the help of plasticine crafts, his ability to imagine images of objects that are not really in front of his eyes at the moment, parents lay the foundation for the highly developed intellect of their baby. The ability to fantasize forms the child's ability to operate with abstract concepts, on which the entire education system rests.

When and how to start sculpting

Unanimously, early childhood education teachers say that it is important to start clay classes as early as possible. From the age of 9 months, it is recommended to introduce the baby to the viscous material, teaching him to perform basic actions with ball plasticine:

• the ability to knead plasticine - press the plasticine with your hands and fingers;
• the ability to pinch off - tearing off small pieces of plasticine with your fingers;
• spanking - patting on plasticine with the whole palm with straightened fingers;
• compressing plasticine to flatten it.

This is not all the possibilities.

UsefulFeatures

Ball or granular plasticine is a foam balls of different sizes, interconnected with elastic acrylic adhesive. The balls don't crumble. Balls are small - for preschool children, large - for the smallest creators.

The granular structure of fine-grained ball clay in the process of an exciting educational and creative process massages the active zones of the baby's hands, improving speech and intelligence. Over time, the child's fingers become dexterous and sensitive. By developing fine motor skills of hands, we help the development of speech, memory, attention, thinking, auditory and visual perception of babies. A greater effect in children develops through regular classes, which will be even more interesting if parents call on their imagination to help in a variety of plasticine crafts. After all, ball plasticine is a very interesting and diverse material for children's creativity. Not only children, but also adults like to work with him.

Types of plasticine

Grainy plasticine is produced in different colors, in convenient jars or blister packs. Colors can be mixed. They produce fast-hardening ball plasticine (within 24 hours) and non-hardening. For preschool children, non-drying plasticine is more suitable, since the skills to make durable crafts have not yet been developed. At this age, the child is only in the process of getting acquainted with the material, trying to realize his creative ideas, not yet planningfinished works, admiring their bright improvisations. Playdough colors come in classic, neon, and glittery colors, making it fun for little ones to work with ball play dough.

Let's consider further crafts and applications with this material.

Drawings and applications with ball plasticine

Non-drying granular plasticine is fragile enough not to last long-lasting toys, so it is ideal for colorful appliqués that can then be framed and given as a birthday present to a friend. Similar contour drawings are already attached to the set of plasticine. It is only necessary to apply a granular material in different colors. Bright festive applique is ready.

You can make a bright drawing yourself. To do this, on colored paper, you need to draw the outline of a large drawing, for example, a mushroom or a butterfly and “paint” it with granular plasticine - you get a magnificent contour volumetric drawing.

Crafts from ball plasticine

What can be done? Bright surprises from ball plasticine are within the power of older children - from 4 years old, since the figures are obtained without clear streamlined shapes and more effort needs to be applied to seal. Made crafts - flowers, snails, smurfs are ideal as souvenir gifts for relatives or friends of kids. You can decorate photo frames with granular plasticine, make bright colored stained-glass windows, decorate decorative vases by covering the surface with granular plasticine in the form of various patterns, or roll out the mass with a rolling pin and wrap it around the base, then cut off the excess. Sofigurines are made in the same way, for example, capsules from kinder eggs, pencil holders, jars of mashed potatoes are taken as a basis.

And any child can make a butterfly made of bright ball plasticine. To do this, you just need to cut out a template from thick cardboard. Each fragment of the butterfly is attached to it: the body, wings, antennae. This is followed by laying out a pattern with ball plasticine, which can be arranged in several layers to give more volume to the craft.

Colorful magical cities, marvelous gardens, bright seas with ships - everything is subject to this flexible plasticine with magic balls, along with an inexhaustible children's imagination.