Gradual modeling for children. Crafts from plasticine: we make food, animals, toys

In this article you will find many ideas for molding from plasticine with step-by-step instructions and photos, as well as what crafts can be done with a child at different ages.

Work with plasticine favorably affects the development of the child. These classes improve memory, attention, well affect thinking, develop fine motor skills, which in turn promotes speech development, shapes imagination, reveals creativity, makes you fantasize. More details about the benefits of classes with plasticine and other materials you will learn in the article Lepim with children from plasticine.Пластилинография

Do I need clay for children under one year?

It is recommended that children be engaged in modeling from 1 year, up to a year the child most likely will not show any other interest in plasticine, except how to try it on the tooth. But children are all different, so you can try to work out the child modeling before. Show the baby plasticine of one color, tear off a piece from it, roll the ball, let it hold it in the handles. If the child is not interested, postpone and after a while try again.

For small children, it is best to use soft plasticine, for example, the firm "Play Dоh" or better prepare the salt dough by yourself. About salted dough and crafts from it read in the article Crafts from salty dough with their own hands. Crafts for holidays

3"> Molding of plasticine for children 2 and 3 years old

At the age of 2 to 3 years the child is still struggling with ordinary plasticine, so you should choose a special soft plasticine for small children.

Children are just learning to operate their pens and it's hard for them to practice modeling. Choose a child is not difficult tasks, so that he can deal with them, it will inspire him, give confidence and he will want to continue to engage in this useful form of creativity. By three years the child can already:

• tear off pieces from plasticine
• make them balls
• flatten them
• cling plasticine to paper and smear it
• crush balls with palms
• make sausages
• twist them into rings
• join all the components in one craft.

The task of parents is to teach the child this.

Show the child

• how to cut the sausage and get the
• rings How can you cut out the figures from the flat cake
• how to cut the dough into squares, triangles and other forms of the
• like sticking on various items, such as seeds, beads, cereals, pasta

, spread on cardboard claymolding at the age of 1-3 years is 5-15 minutes and depends on the mood and desire of the child to work with plasticine.

For this age, it is recommended to use clay only the primary colors, so as not to overload the child with a great variety and not distract from the occupation of modeling. In addition, if desired, colors can be mixed and received new shades.

Modeling of plasticine for children of 4 and 5 years old

At the age of 4-5 years the child already skillfully handles the modeling knife, his handles are already strong and he can work with ordinary plasticine.

Children of this age are able to roll balls, sausages and now it will be more interesting for them to make themselves more complex and interesting crafts.

Ask the child to make a mushroom glade or a forest lawn with bushes and trees around. Maybe a child will want to make something of his own, do not bother him in this. It's the opposite, it's good and brings up independence.

Also mum can sculpt one detail of the composition, and the child another, then put everything together in the same craft. So the child will feel responsible for his part of the work.

A child at this age can sculpt simple figures of animals, plants, birds, food for dolls.

You can start to master with the child the technique of plasticine, to make simple plasticine pictures and panels. Invite the child to add natural and junk material to such pictures.

Working time with plasticine 10-20 minutes, if the child is deeply involved, you can extend a little, depends on the assiduity of the child.

Plasticine molding for children 6 and 7 years old

Plasticine can be used as usual or buy different sets, for example, for molding pastry products of "Play Dоh" company. There are also kits with a mass for modeling, they harden well in the air and remain in the future.

At the younger school age children already know how to fantasize and realize their ideas. They sculpt more complex figures, following step-by-step instructions.

Help the child to make a picture of plasticine, he can already make more intricate drawings with a lot of small details, the transition of colors and different textures.

Time for practicing modeling at this age can not be limited, let the child do as much as he wants and how much he has enough imagination and perseverance.

How to mold plasticine food for dolls?

Soft plasticine is well suited for creating a toy meal. The baby will be bored to do just balls, and if they are a decoration of a toy cake, it will be more interesting. You can do with the child various cakes, pastas, sandwiches, cakes and much more, which is enough fantasy. You can not throw out boxes from candy, and make their own toy sweets for them. Be sure to try on your food for the dolls to the crockery, from which they will eat it.

For older children, you can combine the occupation with mathematics, divide the cake into equal parts and study the fractions, feed the guests and count how much you need to cook cakes for them.

Below are some step-by-step instructions on how to make some food for dolls from plasticine.

Cabbage broccoli from plasticine

Take clay in three different shades of green. From the lightest, make sausage-leg for cabbage, divide it into several small branches. Take three pieces of plasticine of different shades and press through a strainer and you get broccoli inflorescences. Connect these parts together.

Molding sausages from plasticine

Prepare a sausage-colored plasticine. Make a cake from it, from above put white strips. Fold the cake, roll it like a sausage between the palms and for a while put in the fridge. Cut the sausage with sawing movements, not pushing.

We make ice cream from plasticine

Take a piece of plasticine sand colored, print on it cells, like on waffles. Now make a cone and one or three balls, the color you want to make ice cream, you can take different colors. We glue the balls on the cone to its base, and wrap it with our flat cake. On top, you can add jam, smearing two or three sausages cross crosswise on the balls, nalepit small multi-colored pieces - sprinkle with crumbs.

Molding of cheese from plasticine

Cheese is made from plasticine yellow with a slight addition of orange. Make a cake, cut a triangle and sell holes in it, large holes are conveniently made by the back side of the rod from the handle, and small ones by a writing tip or pencil.

We make a plasticine cake

Make a few balls of plasticine of different colors, it's better to take two brown ones for chocolate layers of biscuit, two different berry flowers and one whatever you want for glaze.

Chocolate and berry crusts are made very simply, the ball is flattened and rolled out by barrels in order to align them.

We connect all the cakes to one cake and roll it one by one to align all the layers.

Take our glaze ball and roll it as thinly as possible, turn our cake into it entirely, remove excess edges and align.

Now we make the cream: roll the plasticine into a thin and long sausage, fold it in half and twist it. We spread it around the perimeter of our cake.

Cut the cake into pieces and with a toothpick or toothbrush, give porosity to our chocolate layers of biscuit. Each piece can still be decorated with beads, fruits and pour glaze.

Bread can be sculpted in plasticine sand color. To make a loaf, add on it diagonally the prints of the toothpick.

How to make a watermelon from plasticine?

Take the black plasticine and roll a few thin sausages. Red plasticine is rolled out with a not very thin flat cake in the shape of an oval. In the middle we put one sausage and fold the cake in half. Add a couple more sausages and fold again and repeat it several times. In the end, we give a round shape.

We wrap our watermelon in a white cake, and then in green, making, thus, the skin.

Add more light-colored green stripes.

And cut. Look at how ripe we got a watermelon!

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We make animals from plasticine

Having step-by-step instructions, sculpting animals and insects from plasticine is very easy.

For the figurine of a giraffe, take a yellow, black, orange, white clay and a toothpick.

. From the yellow plasticine, you need to make a solid oval, this will be the body of the giraffe

Add to it 4 cones that will be its legs

Roll up the long sausage, thisthere will be a neck of the giraffe, but to keep it well, pierce it in the middle along the toothpick

. Make the head and ears.

• . Combine everything into one figure, smooth the joints.
• Add the giraffe's tail also from the yellow plasticine, at the tip make an orange tassel.
• Make giraffe orange spots, for this use small balls of plasticine.
• Add eyes, orange horns and pierce the nostrils with a toothpick.

The giraffe is ready!

You can dazzle a cheerful cow from plasticine.

A simple idea how to dazzle a frog from plasticine.

Here is an interesting dog from plasticine with step-by-step photos.

We make a ladybrow of plasticine

• Prepare plasticine of red, black and white colors, you still need thin wire, black beads and toothpick
• . If you want to plant a ladybug on a leaf, make it from green plasticine, press a vein with a toothpick on it, and cut off excess
• . Make the body of red plasticinein the shape of an oval, press it slightly on one side where there will be a head

• For a head roll a ball of black plasticine
• Add black specks from flattened balls
• Make eyes from white plasticine and bASER
• Sell the incision of the wings with a toothpick
• From the pieces of wire, make the legs and the antennae

How to sculpt the plasticine of the Smeshariki?

Let's share the characters of the animated cartoon "Smeshariki", who loved children.

Owl from plasticine

1. Take violet clay, make a ball of it - this will be the basis of our figure
2. Blind triangular ears and stick them to the ball
3. Flatten two small white balls for the eyes, make them a "visor" above them. Pupils can be made from small pieces of black plasticine, from black beads or pepper peas
4. Now take an orange or red piece of plasticine and blend a cone from it - it will be a beak. Press it as shown in the picture so that the beak is ajar and secure it under the eyelets
5. Make the black paws of the sausages and stick them to the figure
6. Blind the wings for the Sowon, squeeze the stripes on them, simulating the plumage
7. Finish the image by making a bubo cap ofcrushed flat cakes of red and orange color

Plasticine cloak

1. Take the pink plastic clay and roll it out of it the bead-base of our figure
2. To simulate the wool, make a few pink little balls andralepite in the body
3. Make the ears, legs and handles for the Barash from the sausages of the pink color
4. Eyes blind as for the Owl
5. Use the brown clay to build the horns, add it also to the paws of our figurine and do not forget about the edges of the
6. Rotik make of thinstripes of red

Hedgehog from plasticine

1. From red plasticine roll down a basis for figurine
2. Half of a ball fill up with black, a little flattened, cones from plasticine which will be needles
3. Blind eyes and an additiveattach them to the black glasses, attach them to the base
4. Add paws and ears from the red sausages of different sizes
5. Do not forget about the spout and mouth

Losiash from the plasticine

1. Roll the bead-base yellow
2. Add to it eyes and eyelids like Owl
3. Blind bignose from the flattened cone and the edge of the thin sausages of brown
4. Make the feet as shown in the picture
5. It remains to add to it the horns that are easy to make from the brown plasticine sausages

The crumb of plasticine

1. Basichowling will be a plasticine ball of blue color, if you find or mix yourself a turquoise-colored clay, it will be just fine
2. Blind his eyes like other characters, and add a spoon from the red ball directly under them.
3. From the base plasticine, make big ears and feet forKroshi
4. Now make a smile: with a stalk or a knife for plasticine, you need to make an incision in the place where it has a mouth, and push the clay, inside add a red sausage, and on top of it, two white teeth

Nylon made of plasticine

1. Nyusha we will be pink, blind for her pink ball.
2. Make eyes to it in the usual way
3. Make a spout out of a red squashed ball, squeeze two holes on it
4. Blend out the thin red sausage cusps and cilia for Nyusha as shown in the picture

1. At the back to the base, stick two red flat cakes, on the middle of them four slightly flattenedball, this will be a pigtail. Make a tail for it as shown in the picture and attach it to the braid
2. Decorate the tail with a flower of white plasticine
3. Paws make of sausages of pink color and add on their tips red claws

Pin from plasticine

1. The base of this figure will be made of black plasticine. Blind the ball
2. Make the belly from the white plasticine cake
3. Add the eyes from the white and black plasticine
4. Just under the eyes, stick the beak, make it out of the red cone, flatten it lightly and press it with the knife, opening the beak
5. From the piece of brown plasticine,, add on it blue balls, simulating glasses glasses
6. Blind red paws and black wings for our figurine

Molding from plasticine birds

Let's blind the parrot. Follow the step-by-step instructions below and you will have a beautiful and talkative birdie.

• Take the red, yellow, blue, white and black plasticine
• Make the oval trowel for the yellow plasticine parrot
• Add a smaller circle of red color - this will be the head of our bird

• The wings will be blue, for this stick two droplets on the sides of the body
• Add a white breastparrot
• Blind the yellow beak, stick your eyes and make the cone of cones

• Let's add another tail and stack the grooves on the breast of the bird and wings that resemble the plumage
• Ostelk stick legs and parrot ready

That such a cock can be made from clay.

Here is a penguin obtained from plasticine.

How to mold dinosaurs from plasticine?

• Take plasticine of any color, because you can make a dinosaur as you like.
• Divide a piece of plasticine into three parts, one of them will go to your head, the second one will sculpt a trunk, and the third will be divided into all the other parts.
• . Divide one more piece into three parts, andone of them also for three
• . From the two largest pieces we make the trunk and head, for this we roll them into sausages and pull them out, connect them together and align the joint. What you should get is shown in the diagram at number 3

• . From two medium pieces roll the cylinders and pull them out a little, flatten them from below and from above, leaving a thin "waist" - form the feet as shown in diagram 4
• From the small pieces, mix the sausages- front paws
• Now collect the figure from the fact that it is ready and smooth all joints
• From the remaining piece of plasticine, roll a lot of small balls and stick out of pressing down on the sides to the ridge of the dinosaur
• Make him eyes and do not forget about theki
• Cut with a knife for a clay dinosaur mouth and open it. With a toothpick, squeeze the nostrils, cut a little paw
• Make white teeth and claws for our figurine

. You can dazzle a dinosaur from a cone.

And here's another dinosaur - stegosaurus, one of the most popular among children.

If a child wants to dazzle a predator dinosaur, ask him to do dimetrodon.

How to sculpt a plasticine pony?

After watching the cartoon My little pony, your daughter probably wants to dazzle the same pony. Let us help you with this.

• Take plasticine of the desired color, perfectly suited as well as pink, violet, red and blue shades
• Roll the sausage of the chosen color - this will be the pony's body

• Pull one side of the sausage into the cone - this will be the neck

• Roll the ball and pull it out a little,forming the muzzle of a small horse
• From two small pieces make droplets and stick to the muzzle from above - these are the ears
• With a toothpick, press the nostrils and ponies of the pony

• Roll out four main cones from the clay,from its narrow side obliquely cut a bit of plasticine with a special knife, at this point there will be a fixing of the legs to the body
• Knock by the wide part of the cones on the ditch, so you will make the horses' hooves

• Collect your figurine. Smooth the joints of the
• To make the mane and tail, roll a few thin multi-colored sausages, join them together and cut them, stick them to our pony, slightly bend, simulating the bends of the
• . Do not forget about the eyes, make them not round, but elongated, in the form of a leaf

Our pony is ready!

You can make several small horses of different colors and you will have many characters from the cartoon for games.

You can make ponies in a different way, see the step-by-step photos below.

Crafts from plasticine

Show fantasy and combine in one hand-crafted natural material and clay. It will be unusual for the child and interesting.

Make craft of plasticine and nutshell

• Prepare a nutshell, clay, leaves from trees, small sticks
• In a cleaned shell, stick a plasticine ball, put a mast on it - a small stick

• Put on the mast the sails-leaves, from the top, attach another ball of plasticine
• Launch your boats into the water

Make the caterpillar of plasticine and chestnuts

1. Prepare a few chestnuts
2. Roll several colored balls of plasticine
3. Join chestnuts, Turn them with plasticine, press them down so that they firmly adhere
4. Make white eyes and black plasticine
5. Add a red spout from the ball and mouth from the sausage
6. Do not forget about the horns, they can be made from pieces of a match, combining with a chestnut plasticine

You can stillto make here such a hedgehog from a chestnut peel and plasticine.

Here are some funny colorful cochleas made of plasticine and chestnuts.

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