Phased modeling for children. Crafts of plasticine: sculpt food, animals, toys

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

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Work with plasticine favorably affects the development of the child. These classes improve memory, attention, have a good effect on thinking, develop fine motor skills of hands, which in turn contributes to the development of speech, form imagination, reveal creative abilities, and make you show fantasy. You will learn more about the benefits of classes with plasticine and other materials in the article We sculpt with children from plasticine. Plasticine

Do you need plasticine for children up to a year?

It is recommended to model children with children from 1 year old, up to a year, the child will most likely not show other interest in plasticine, except to try it on the tooth. But the children are all different, so you can try to work out with a child with a molding earlier. Show the baby the plasticine of the same color, tear off a piece from him, roll the ball, let him hold it in the handles. If the child is not interested, set aside and try it again after time.

For small children, it is best to use soft plasticine, for example, Play DOH or better prepare the salty dough yourself. Read about salty dough and crafts from it in the article DIY CARA crafts. Crafts for the holidays

Plasticine modeling for children 2 and 3 years

At the age of 2 to 3 years, the child still does not cope with ordinary plasticine, so it is worth choosing a special soft plasticine for small children.

Children are just learning to control their pens and it is difficult for them to be modeling. Choose the child not difficult tasks so that he can handle them, this will inspire him, give himself self -confidence and he will want to continue to engage in this useful type of creativity.

By the age of three, the child can already:

tie pieces from plasticine
balls
flatten them
put the plasticine to the paper and spread it
rub the balls with your palms
make sausages
twist them in rings
connect all components in one craft.

The task of parents to teach the child this.

Show the child

how to cut a sausage and get rings
how can I cut figures from a flat tortilla
how to cut the dough into squares, triangles and other forms
how to stick on plasticine spread on a cardboard various objects, for example, seeds, beads, cereals, pasta

The duration of modeling 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 plasticine only the primary colors, so as not to overload the child with great variety and not distract from the activity of the modeling. In addition, if desired, you can mix and get new shades.

Modeling plasticine for children 4 and 5 years old

At the age of 4-5 years, the child is already skillfully treated with a sculpting knife, his handles have already become stronger 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 more complex and interesting crafts themselves.

Invite the child to make a mushroom clearing or a forest lawn with bushes and trees around. Maybe the child wants to blind something of his own, do not bother him in this. This is the other way around and educates independence.

Mom can also sculpt one detail of the composition, and the child is another, then connect everything into one 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 begin to master the technique of plasticine with your child, make simple plasticine paintings and panels. Invite the baby to add natural and catchy material to such paintings.

The working hours with plasticine are 10-20 minutes, if the child is very passionate, you can extend a little, depends on the persistence of the child.

Plasticine modeling for children 6 and 7 years old

Plasticine can be used ordinary or buy different sets, for example, for modeling confectionery products of Play DOH. There are also sets with mass mass, they harden in the air well and persist in the future.

In primary school age, children already know how to independently fantasize and implement their ideas. They sculpt more complex figures, following step -by -step instructions.

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

The time for modeling at this age can not be limited, let the child deal with how much he wants and how much he has enough imagination and perseverance.

How to sculpt from plasticine food for dolls?

Soft plasticine is well suited for creating toy food. After all, the baby will be bored to make just balls, and if they are decorating a toy cake, it will be more interesting. You can make various cakes, pasta, sandwiches, cakes and much more with your child, which is enough for fantasy. You can not throw out boxes from confessions, but make your toy sweets for them. Be sure to try on your food for dolls to the dish from which they will eat it.

For older children, you can combine a lesson with mathematics, divide the pie into equal parts and study fractions, feed guests and count how much cakes need to be prepared for them.

Below we give you several phased instructions on how to make some food for plasticine dolls.

Cabbage of broccoli from plasticine

Take the plasticine of three different shades of green color. From the lightest, make a sausage-cut for cabbage, divide it with a stack into several small branches. Take three pieces of plasticine of different shade and solder through the kitchen strain, and you received broccoli inflorescences. Combine these parts with each other.

Modeling sausages from plasticine

Prepare sausage plasticine. Make a cake out of it, apply white strips on top. Turn the cake, roll it like a sausage between your palms and put it in the refrigerator for a while. Cut the sausage with sawing movements, and not pushing.

We sculpt ice cream from plasticine

Take a piece of sandy plasticine, print the cells on it, like on waffles. Now make a cone and one or three balls, such a color as you want to make ice cream, you can take different colors. We fit the balls on the cone to its base, and wrap our wuffle tortilla. You can add jam on top by smearing two or three sausages Cross Cross on Balls, stick small multi -colored pieces - sprinkle with crumbs.

Modeling cheese from plasticine

We make cheese from yellow plasticine with a small addition of orange. Make a cake, cut the triangle and squeeze holes in it, it is convenient to make large holes with the back of the rod from the handle, and small ones with a written tip or pencil.

We sculpt a plasticine cake

Make several balls of plasticine in different colors, it is better to take two brown, for chocolate layers of biscuit, two different berry colors and one you want, for the glaze.

We make chocolate and berry cakes very simply, we flatten the ball a bit and roll out by barrels to align them.

We connect all the cakes in one cake and roll it sideways again to level all the layers.

We take our glazing ball and roll it as thin as possible, wrap our cake into it entirely, cut off the extra edges and align.

Now we make the cream: roll out 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 a toothpick or toothbrush, give porosity to our chocolate layers of the biscuit. Each piece can still be decorated with fruit beads and poured with glaze.

Bread can be sculpted with sandy plasticine. To make a loaf, add to the dental fingerprints diagonally.

How to make a watermelon from plasticine?

We take black plasticine and roll several thin sausages. Remote red plasticine not a very thin 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. At the end we give a round shape.

We wrap our watermelon into a white cake, and then into green, thus making a peel.

Add light green stripes lighter in color.

And cut. Look how ripe we got a watermelon!

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We sculpt animals from plasticine

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

We sculpt giraffe from plasticine

For a giraffe figure, take yellow, black, orange, white plasticine and toothpick
From yellow plasticine, you need to make a voluminous oval, it will be a giraffe torso
Add 4 cones to him that will be his legs
Roll up a long sausage, it will be the neck of the giraffe, but so that it holds its shape well, pierce it in the middle along a toothpick
Make your head and ears

Connect everything in one figure, burn the compounds.
Add the giraffe a tail also from yellow plasticine, make an orange brush on the tip.
Make a giraffe orange spots, for this, use small plasticine balls.
Add your eyes, orange horns and pierce your nostrils with a toothpick.

The giraffe is ready!

You can blind such a funny cow from plasticine.

A simple idea how to blind a frog from plasticine.

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

We sculpt God's cow of plasticine

Prepare plasticine red, black and white, you will also need thin wire, black beads and toothpick
If you want to put God's cow on a leaf, make it from green plasticine, pour veins on it with a toothpick, and cut off the excess
Make the body from red plasticine in the form of an oval, crush it a little on one side, where there will be a head

For the head, roll a black plasticine ball
Add black spots from flattened balls
Make eyes from white plasticine and beads
Sitter the wings section with a toothpick
From pieces of wire make paws and antennae

How to sculpt mixariks from plasticine?

Let's blind the children of the cartoon "Smeshariki" together.

Owl from plasticine

Take purple plasticine, make a ball out of it - this will be the basis of our figure
Blind the triangular ears and stick them to the ball
Spat two small white balls for the eyes, make the eyelids over them with a “visor”. Pupils can be made from small pieces of black plasticine, from black beads or pepper with peas
Now take an orange or red piece of plasticine and blind a cone from it - it will be a beak. Press it as shown in the picture so that the beak is ajar and fix it under the eyes
From black sausages, make the paws and stick them to the figure
Blind the wings for owls, sell stripes on them, imitating the plumage
Finish the image by making a hat with a bubo from crushed red and orange cakes

Barash from plasticine

Take pink plasticine and roll from it the ball-to-blue ball of our figure
To simulate the wool, make several pink small balls and stick in the body
Make ears, legs and pens for lamb from pink sausages
Blind your eyes as well as for owls
Use brown plasticine to blind horns, add it to the paws of our figure and do not forget about the edge
Make a mouth from thin strips of red

Hedgehog from plasticine

From red plasticine, rummage the base for the figure
Pull the half of the ball with black, slightly flattened, plasticine cones that will be needles
Blind eyes and add black glasses to them, attach them to the base
Add legs and ears from red sausages of different sizes
Do not forget about the nose and mouth

Losyash from plasticine

Roll up a yellow-armed ball
Add him eyes and eyelids like owls
Blind a large nose from a flattened cone and eyebrows of thin brown sausages
Make the paws as shown in the picture
It remains to add horns that are easy to make from brown plasticine sausages

Kroshi from plasticine

The basis will be a plasticine ball of blue, if you find or mix your own plasticine turquoise color, it will be just wonderful
Blind his eyes like other characters, and add a nose from a red ball right under them
From plasticine the main color, make large ears and legs for crumbs
Now we make a smile: you need to make an incision in the place where it has a mouth and spread the plasticine, add a red sausage, and put two white teeth on top of it with a stack or knife for plasticine.

Nyusha from plasticine

Nyusha will have a pink color, blind a pink ball for her.
Make her eyes in the usual way
From a red flattened ball, make a nose, sell two holes on it
Blind the eyebrows and cilia for nyusha from thin sausages, as shown in the figure

At the back to the base, stick two red cakes, on them in the middle are four slightly flattened balls, it will be a pigtail. Make a tail to her as shown in the figure and attach it to the pigtail
Decorate the tail with a white plasticine flower
Make the paws from pink sausages and add red hoofs to their tips

PIN from plasticine

The basis of this figure will be of black plasticine. Blind the ball
Make a stomach of white plasticine tortilla
Add eyes from white and black plasticine
Immediately under the eyes, stick the beak, make it from a red cone, you need to add it slightly and squeeze it with a knife, opening the beak
From a piece of brown plasticine, blind a pin hat, add blue balls to it, imitating glasses of glasses
Blind red legs and black wings for our figure

Modeling poultry

Let's blind the parrot. Follow the step -by -step instructions below, and you will get a beautiful and talkative bird.

Take red, yellow, blue, white and black plasticine
Make an oval body for a parrot made of yellow plasticine
Add a less red circle - it 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 breast a parrot
Blind the yellow beak, stick your eyes and make a crest out of cones

Let's add another tail and with a stack we will sell the grooves on the chest of birds and wings that resemble plumage
It remains to stick the legs and the parrot is ready

Here is such a cockerel can be made of plasticine.

Here is such a penguin from plasticine.

How to sculpt dinosaurs from plasticine?

Take plasticine of any color, because a dinosaur can be done what you want
Divide a piece of plasticine into three parts, one will go on our heads, we will sculpt the body from the second, and we will divide the third into all other details
Divide one piece into three more parts, and one of them is also into three
Of the two largest pieces, we make the body and head, for this we roll them into sausages and stretch them, connect with each other and align the junction. What you should do is shown on the scheme at number 3

From two medium pieces, roll the cylinders and pull them slightly, flatten from below and above, leaving a thin “waist” - form the legs, as shown in Scheme 4
From small pieces, blind sausages - front paws
Now collect the figure from what is already ready and burn all the joints
From the remaining piece of plasticine, roll up a lot of small balls and press from pressing on the sides to the ridge of the dinosaur
Make him eyes and do not forget about the eyelids
Cut the dinosaur mouth with a knife for plasticine and open it. Pull the nostrils with a toothpick, cut a little paws
From white plasticine make teeth and claws for our figure

You can blind more such a dinosaur from the cone.

And here is another dinosaur - Stegosaurus, one of the most popular in children.

If a child wants to blind a dinosaur-blade, invite him to make a dimetrodon.

How to sculpt from plasticine ponies?

Having looked at the cartoon My Little Pony, your daughter will probably want to blind the same ponies. Let us help her with this in this.

Take plasticine of the desired color, perfect both pink, purple, red, and blue shades
Skat a sausage of the selected color - it will be a pony torso

Stretch one side of the sausage to the cone - it will be a neck

Roll up the ball and pull it a little, forming a muzzle of a small horse
From two small pieces, make droplets and stick to the muzzle from above - these will be ears
Pull the nostrils and mouth ponies with a toothpick

Roll out of the main color of the main color four cones, cut a little plasticine from a narrow side from its narrow side with a special knife, in this place there will be a fastening of the legs to the body
Shut up with a wide part of the cones on the bottom, so you will make the hooves of the horse

Collect your figure. Gry the joints
To make a mane and tail, roll several thin multi -colored sausages, connect them together and cut, stick them to our ponies, bend a little, imitating bends
Do not forget about the eyes, make them not round, but elongated, in the shape of a leaf

Our pony is ready!

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

You can blind the ponies in another way, see step -by -step photos below.

Crafts from plasticine

Show imagination and combine natural material and plasticine in one craft. It will be unusual for the child and interesting.

We make a boat of plasticine and walnut shell

Prepare a nutty shell, plasticine, leaves from trees, small sticks
Stick the ball of plasticine in the purified shell, put the mast on it - a small stick

Put on the mast of the leaf, click on the top of the other ball of plasticine
Start your boats into the water

We make a caterpillar from plasticine and chestnuts

Prepare several chestnuts
Roll up several colorful plasticine balls
Combine chestnuts, alternating them with plasticine, crush them so that they are tightly glued
From white and black plasticine make eyes
Add a red nose from a ball and a mouth from a sausage
Do not forget about horns, they can be made from pieces of matches, connecting with chestnut plasticine