Everyone knows what plasticine is and do not neglect the usefulness of modeling. Firstly, this is an excellent joint activity of the child and parents. Secondly, plasticine crafts with each new lesson will become better and better, and your childβs imagination will develop with the creations of the baby. Thirdly, the developed motor skills of fingers in young children is directly developed with colloquial speech and memory. And most importantly - your child will be busy with creativity for a long time!
Plasticine can be offered to a child starting from 3 years. For such babies, there is a special plasticine that is suitable for eating, because when you make a delicious carrot, you want to try it. However, this does not mean that you need to feed a child with such plasticine. The plasticine's melting point for babies is slightly higher than that of a normal one, but this will in no way hinder making this or that figure. Because he is very warm in his hands. But it does not spoil the form by touching special stacks and knives.
At the first stages, the child will not be able to make crafts from plasticine, using devices for modeling, as working with them requires some skill. First, you need to offer the baby to stretch the clay and try how it comes off, how it mixes and what patterns remain if you click on the piece with your finger or hand. Next, you need to show the child how to do it: a ball, an oval, roll into a tube, crush a tube or ball, etc. Of course, such creativity is a little like a masterpiece, but these are only the first steps!
The melting point of plasticine for young children will not allow you to greatly stain your hands or the surface of the table, but itβs better to substitute a special proof and immediately accustom the child to accuracy. True, if you expect that he will not smear everything around, then this is a misconception. Naturally, you will have a question: "How to wash plasticine?". Conventional folk methods come to the rescue: sunflower oil does an excellent job with plasticine. You can also use heated sunflower oil, baby wipes, a cloth can be placed in the refrigerator and remove frozen residues, or you can iron it with a napkin or blotter, and grease a greasy stain with soap or dishwashing detergent.
But still, in order not to look for how to wash the plasticine, it is better to prevent trouble and explain to the baby why it is impossible to smear or stick plasticine around objects. Believe me, children understand everything even at 3 years old. But back to the crafts. After elementary figures, you can offer to make a child of plasticine what he wants and see: what comes of it. Do not forget that the game is important for the child, and not clear instructions for action.
The most ordinary and simple figures can be transformed into crafts from plasticine, which you and your child will be proud of! If you show your child what can be done and help in sculpting the first figures, then the following crafts from plasticine can already be done independently and with great enthusiasm. It is also important to explain and tell your child every step you take. It is unobtrusive to correct his actions with words, but there can be no special laws in modeling - this is creativity!
For example, suggest rolling up a few different-sized balls from plasticine of different colors. It will be nice if you help the child choose the right color and size of the ball. You will need a large ball and several different sizes, but smaller than the main one and from the same color. A large ball is the body, other balls of the same color are legs and arms. Another ball needs a little flattening - this is a hat. You can make a pompom for her. Eyes can be made of 2 small balls of white and 2 smaller black ones. A nose can also be made from a ball, and a smile from a small bent tube. And so it can happen Kapitoshka! The main thing is to provide the child with the opportunity to help you and do practically the main work!
Sculpt together with the children and enjoy joint successes, because the day will come when your child will be completely independent, and you will remember how you sculpted crafts that stand in the most honorable place of your home.