Every parent wants his child to become a versatile and creative person. To do this, it is necessary to invest in the development of the baby from early childhood. It is best to devote time to the development of fine motor skills of hands, imagination and imagination. After all, children like to create something new and unique! You can use any materials for creativity: colored paper, pencils, sets of designers and more. But the most popular are plasticine crafts.
Choose plasticine
Today, the market for children's products is replete with a variety of plasticine of various shapes, colors, sizes and manufacturers. The main characteristics of good and high-quality plasticine are its elasticity and suppleness, as well as the ability to quickly restore these properties after solidification. Plasticine should not leave stubborn stains. Greasy traces of plasticine should be easily cleaned with plain water.
For the smallest, soft and not very sticky plasticine of bright colorful shades is best suited. Such material will attract their attention more and make it easy to create the first plasticine crafts.
Older children who have already mastered the modeling technique well will be happy with the hardening sculptural clay, since with its help their creations can be preserved intact.
Additional materials
Plasticine is not all that a child needs for creativity in the form of modeling. The kid will need some more improvised materials that are not necessary to buy, they can easily be found in any home. Namely:
- plastic stand;
- Stacks
- decoration elements (beads, beads, sequins and more);
- toothpicks, matches, tubules.
What can be made of plasticine
Plasticine due to its elasticity and suppleness serves as a material for creating a variety of paintings and gizmos.
Particularly popular among children is the modeling of plasticine crafts such as:
- Animals.
- Flowers
- Toys
- Characters of fairy tales and cartoons.
- Vegetables and fruits.
Moreover, such plasticine crafts for children can have various shapes and sizes. It can be volumetric figures, from which you can recreate a scene from a fairy tale (cartoon), or paintings, which can also be made in volumetric technique or be flat.
How to make a picture of plasticine
To draw, or rather to make a picture of clay, is a rather unusual, but very exciting creative process.
When creating plasticine paintings, you can use three different techniques:
- smearing;
- flagella;
- mosaic.
Smearing looks pretty simple. The child is given a ready-made drawing (so to speak, coloring), and he, gradually smearing plasticine of different colors on the surface, fills all sections of the drawing.
Pictures and crafts from plasticine flagella look very neat and unusual. Flagella can be used to decorate a finished picture or to make figures of them. The main thing is to teach the child to make flagella.
The mosaic technique is simple and straightforward, but if you put a little patience and perseverance, you can create a real masterpiece. To create a mosaic, the child just needs to sculpt the balls and attach them to the surface of the picture. Crafts from plasticine balls look more neat if made from small balls.
How to make flagella
As mentioned above, flagella are a rather original way to create plasticine crafts. From them you can create shapes of various shapes and sizes. And this is very important, since in this way children can learn how to analyze shapes and sizes, can find similarities and differences of objects, correctly compare details.
Flagella can be prepared manually. To do this, the child will need to pinch off a small piece of plasticine and roll it into a thin long sausage. Or use an ordinary medical syringe with which to squeeze out long thin plasticine flagella. Crafts made in this way look more neat and diversify the molding process itself.
Plasticine flowers
Plasticine crafts in the form of flowers is the best way to please mom, grandmother or sister, because all the girls love these beautiful and vibrant plants.
It is very beautiful and easy to create a plasticine rose. There are two ways to do this:
- We take plasticine of the same color, sculpt a flagellum and a drop. From the flagellum should make a flat cake, which we wrap around a droplet. The beginning of our rose has been laid. Then we roll up another flagellum, knead it and again wrap the middle of the flower. The more flagella there are, the more magnificent and beautiful the rose will be.
- We roll about 5-6 balls of the same size (more can be). It gives each ball a flat shape and put it in a row so that each element overlaps the previous one. And then carefully roll them into a single element. We level the petals, and the rose is ready.
It is not necessary to use plasticine of the same color. You can make a decorative beauty rose with petals of all colors of the rainbow.
Plasticine dandelion. Make a long yellow sausage. Flatten it, giving a shape close to a rectangle, the edges should be as even as possible. They are best trimmed or trimmed with stacks. From a long edge on one side we make a fringe. It can be cut with scissors. We turn our flower together and get a magnificent and beautiful symbol of spring.
Chamomile. We take white plasticine, roll up the sausage, divide it into equal parts. We roll the balls out of them. Then we give each kind of petal, flattening the ball from one edge and pinching from the other. We lay out the petals in a circle, put the orange ball in the middle, flatten it slightly and make stamens with a toothpick. Chamomile is ready.
Crafts in the form of animals
Hen. To create it, the child will need clay of three colors (yellow, red, green), beads for the eyes, a stack, a cardboard stand.
Consider a step-by-step diagram for sculpting a chicken:
- from yellow plasticine we sculpt a small ball (this will be the head) and an oblong volume oval, which will become the body of our bird;
- connect them;
- we sculpt neat curly wings from green plasticine and fasten them on both sides to the body;
- from red plasticine we sculpt a beak and a scallop, which we attach to the head;
- from beads or beads we make eyes;
- to make the chicken more stable, it must be put on some kind of stand.
Fish. Aquarium fish are diverse, colorful and infinitely attractive. And most importantly, to recreate any of them is very easy in the form of plasticine crafts. Photos of such beauties can be seen below.
How to make it? The scheme is very simple:
- we roll out a plasticine ball, giving the shape of a future fish;
- sculpt fins and tail;
- connect these parts together;
- beads (beads) will serve as the eyes of a fish;
- the body of the fish can be decorated with various elements.
An example of a plasticine painting
Consider how you can make a picture or application of plasticine, using the example of a cosmic landscape. This topic is very loved by children, because the flight of imagination here is not limited by any framework.
Getting started:
- Planets: we take balls of different colors (blue - Earth, red - Mars, brown - Saturn, etc.). We make flat circles out of them.
- We make the sun out of a yellow ball; matches, toothpicks or plasticine flagella can serve as rays.
- Alien ship. Make a flat disk from a plasticine ball, attach a bright hemisphere to it, then attach the ship's legs (from plasticine or improvised materials). From beads to make portholes or signal lights of the ship.
- Attach all these elements to the board (or stand).
In this composition you can think of anything: mysterious animals, aliens, earth-astronauts and much, much more.
Children's imagination is limitless and multifaceted, so in order for the child to fully grow and develop, parents are simply obliged to provide him with everything necessary. And plasticine is one of the most accessible and most important materials for the expression of the baby.