Plasticine modeling for children: easy-to-sculpt figures (photo)

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

Preschool age is the best time to develop creativity. Kids are very happy to draw pictures, make crafts and applications, while creating something new. Most of the children enjoy playing with plasticine. In kindergarten, much attention is paid to them, because plasticine is a universal material. Absolutely everything can be molded from it, the main thing is to have a developed imagination.

Best toy

In Philadelphia, it was plasticine that was recognized as the ideal toy for children. The large-scale study involved 215 kids from 3 to 5 years old. All of them lagged behind their peers in development. A year later, after daily sculpting, this gap was significantly reduced. Children began to communicate more actively, 30% of them improved their speech. 70% learned the letters, began to make up the first phrases from them.

Playing with plasticine in the garden stimulates the development of kids, prepares them for school. Making plasticine figurines, children:

• improve fine motor skills, which contributes to the development of speech;
• develop imaginative thinking, attention, imagination, memory;
• learn accuracy, perseverance;
• get used to seeing things through to the end;
• form aesthetic taste;
• receive positive emotions.

Choosing the right plasticine

Dozens of packages with sticky mass are presented on store shelves. How to choose the right material for kindergarten classes? Pay attention to the following parameters:

• Composition. Traditionally, plasticine is made from white clay (kaolin) and binders: paraffin, petroleum jelly, wax. Chemical solvents, thickeners, dyes should not be in the composition.
• Smell. Don't buy plasticine that smells like gasoline, alcohol, or rubber. Leave flavored options on the shelf too - they can cause an allergic reaction in children.
• Softness. For babies under 5 years old, purchase special children's plasticine for modeling. It warms up better, stretches perfectly, does not stick to hands and does not leave greasy stains. Older preschoolers can buy classic plasticine with a denser structure.
• Markost. The selected material should not stain the clothes of babies, thereby causing unnecessary problems for parents.

Plasticine food

Classes on modeling from plasticine are held regularly in both older and younger groups. Children 2-3 years old are taught to roll balls and sausages. This process is definitely played out. sausagesturn into sausages for the puppy. If their ends are connected, a bagel will come out. The ball can be a berry, tomato, orange, apple. If you flatten it, you get cookies or a cake for a doll. Pinching off pieces of plasticine, the kids feed chicken grains.

At 3-4 years old, children will cope with the modeling "Vegetables and Fruits". To create it, you need to be able to analyze the shape and color of objects. So, a cucumber is obtained from a thick, short sausage. Tomato and orange are balls. Carrot is an elongated, cone-shaped sausage. Apple, plum - balls of the corresponding color slightly flattened from the sides. Grapes - many small peas stuck together. For the tops you need elongated, oval cakes. Such modeling can be a continuation of the conversation about the autumn harvest, it will consolidate the knowledge gained.

Make insects

Plasticine modeling for children 3 years old involves the creation of simple toys. A funny caterpillar can be made from several balloons by connecting them together. For the eyes, you will need two small white cakes. Glue tiny black balls to them, press them in slightly.

Easy enough to mold a ladybug. A ball rolls from red plasticine, then it is pulled into an oval, a cut is made in a stack along the back - wings. Black spots are molded in random order. For the head, dark-colored plasticine is taken, a smaller ball is rolled out, connected to the body.

The bee's body is a yellow oval. From blackplasticine roll out thin and long sausages, glue them to the body, flatten. The strips are ready. The eyes are two small spots. To make wings, take white plasticine. Roll into small balls, flatten them into droplets. Attach to back. Children love to play with such crafts, inventing their own stories.

Dishes for dolls

Pupils of younger groups can make a plate. It is enough to flatten the ball into a cake and slightly pull the edges. Invite the kids to decorate the saucer with a pattern that is applied with a felt-tip pen cap or a stack.

Plasticine modeling at 4 years old involves the creation of more complex crafts. Make with kids:

• Bowl. To do this, lift the edges of the plate up, glue the sausage rim on them.
• Cup. A depression is made in the middle of the ball with your fingers. A thin sausage is attached to the side, which is shaped like a handle. If you take a larger ball and make two handles, you get a pan.
• Teapot. We roll a bun, attach a nose to it - a sausage, narrowed at the top. The lid is made from a cake on which a small ball is molded. The handle is a thin flagellum, curved in an arc.
• Spoons and forks. We roll sausages, with our fingers we give them the desired shape. We cut the fork teeth with a stack.

Animal world

Favorite crafts of preschoolers - all kinds of animals and birds. Before modeling from plasticine, children are shown a picture of an animal, the shape, color and number of parts that will be needed for work are analyzed.

Birds are molded from two large balls, to which flattened wings, beak and tail are then added. The same scheme can be used to make animals: bunnies, bears, tiger cubs and lion cubs. The torso and head are made from two large balls, and paws are made from four small ones. Then small details are added. And here we have a sitting animal.

Four-legged animals can be made in another way. Roll an elongated roller from the ball, cut it in half from two sides. These ends will become the paws of the animal. They need to be rounded, bent so that the character gets on his feet. The head can be made of a ball (for example, a cat or a dog). If you are making a horse, roll up the sausage, bend its upper part, giving the plasticine the shape of a head. Apply the finished neck to the body, carefully smoothing the joints.

Folk crafts

Sculpting from plasticine at the age of 5 becomes more difficult, as children have already gained practical experience, are familiar with the basic techniques of work. The program involves familiarity with folk toys. Children can make a Dymkovo horse or a cockerel. They will also cope with the manufacture of a lady, if an ordinary plastic bottle is at hand.

Its upper part will serve as the basis for the toy. The blank is painted from the inside in white gouache. A pattern of plasticine flagella, circles is glued on top. It turns out a fluffy skirt. The cork is coated with plasticine, the young lady's hands and a round head are attached to it. Hair is formed from a cake,add details: eyes, mouth, braid. The kokoshnik is cut out of cardboard and coated with plasticine, decorated with patterns. The toy is ready.

Subject modeling from plasticine

In the senior and preparatory groups, the kids are ready to create complex compositions. Such crafts consist of several figures, united by one idea, history. The plot can be taken from everyday life or borrowed from your favorite fairy tales, cartoons. The main task of the educator is to teach children how to make a reliable, dense stand and logically place characters on it.

At the beginning of the year, children create compositions from uniform figures: a cat and kittens, a dog with a puppy. They learn how to correctly convey dimensions. Then more complex plots are offered: "The Bunnies are playing", "The Fox and the Gingerbread Man", "The boy is making a snowman". Children learn to convey the dynamics of movements. Often, on their own initiative, they sculpt additional details: trees, stumps, benches.

In the preparatory group, children learn to choose their own stories based on fairy tales and personal impressions. Much attention is paid to collective modeling, when the guys coordinate their actions and create one common composition.

Plasticine modeling is a useful and unusually interesting activity, often flowing into a story game. It often becomes a favorite among babies and contributes to their comprehensive development.