A plasticine crow or a sculpted animal from plasticine

Many first-graders have problems when learning to write. The reason - in the poor development of fine motor skills of children's fingers. In addition, there is a relationship between petty motor skills and speech and thinking. Therefore, modeling is an ideal means of child development.

So, we begin by choosing the material for modeling. Plasticine, clay, wax - which is better?

Wax is a comfortable material. It is pleasant tactile, odorless, but children over three years old can work with it, since it quickly hardens, solidifying. The kid just does not have time to make something out of him.

Clay is easy to clean after finishing modeling. However, she often repels the child with her unaesthetic.

Plasticine is difficult to clean, but it is colorful, which attracts the attention of the young sculptor.

With special pleasure, the kid will take up the job if he hears: "Today we mold animals from plasticine from your favorite fairy tale".

Buying clay for the main job, we choose an average softness, since it is difficult to sculpt from a solid, and from a soft figure is short-lived.

Colors should be bright: red, yellow, blue, green, white, black.

Blanks for different figures can be monophonic, but when molded from plasticine animals, the colors are mixed. For example, combining yellow and red, we get an orange, used for modeling squirrels or foxes. And if you need a mouse made of plasticine, then mix a piece of white and black flowers.

Getting to work, plasticine warm in the palms, and then crumple. Next we create various preparations of figures, and only then we mold from plasticine of animals.

The workpiece is made as follows: we separate a piece of plasticine and roll out a sausage or a ball from it. The flattened sausage is a strip, and by rolling the ball with a palm or a rolling pin, we get a flat cake (pancake). If you pinch one tip on the ball and pull it, a droplet is formed. And you can get a pretty cube if you crush the side ball from four sides. To get a pyramid from a ball, we make a cone (pulling the ball from one side), and we already cone and compact the cone from three sides.

Having taught the child the basic types of blanks, we pass to the main thing: we mold from plasticine of animals. As a simple example, we will create a heroine of the fairy tale "Repka" - a mouse-norushku.

Plasticine mouse

We pluck two identical pieces from the white and black blocks of plasticine. We connect them in one, and carefully crush-knead until we get a plasticine lump of gray color. This lump is divided into three parts: a large one and two small ones. From the big we roll a ball - the trunk of a mouse. Then, like a droplet, "stretch" her nose. We take one of the two remaining parts and make from it a long and thin sausage - a mouse tail. The remaining part is divided into two balls, which are rolled into ears-lozhechechki. We attach the tail to the back of the mouse, and the ears to the head. From tiny black pieces of plasticine we make eyes. Using a needle at the bottom of the mouse face, we cut the mouth, and the recumbent tail is bent. Mouse is ready!

A more complex figure is a giraffe made of plasticine.

To make it, you need yellow, black and brown colors. If there is no brown color, then mix black and red. The yellow block of plasticine is divided into a large part (trunk) and a smaller one, from which we will sculpt the legs, ears, tail and horns. The body is made of a thick sausage, which should be thinned to the other end. Then double bend it, almost at a right angle, visually separating the neck and head. The length of the piece after the second bend should be small. From the rest we make four identical long and thin sausages-legs, two small - horns, one sausage - a tail, and oblong ears-flat cakes. We attach all the parts to their places. From the brown bar we make small pancakes, which we put on the trunk and neck of the giraffe. To make the giraffe complete on horns and legs, stick to small black balls (the tops of horns and hoofs). Do not forget about the eyes and mouth. That's all.