Plasticine crafts for children: the best ideas

Each parent wants his child to become a versatile and creative person. To this end, it is necessary to invest in the development of the baby from the earliest childhood. It is best to give time to the development of fine motor skills of the 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 so on. But the most popular are plasticine crafts.

Choose clay

Today, the market of children's goods is full of variety of plasticine of various forms, colors, sizes and manufacturers. The main characteristics of good and quality plasticine is its elasticity and compliance, as well as the ability to quickly restore these properties after hardening. Plasticine should not leave hard-to-remove stains. Oily traces of clay should be easily removed by ordinary water.

For the youngest, the soft and not very sticky plasticine of bright colorful hues is best. Such material will attract their attention more and make it easy to create the first plasticine crafts.

More adult children, who have already mastered the technique of modeling, will be delighted with the freezing sculptural plasticine, because with its help their creations can be preserved intact.

Additional materials

Plasticine - this is not all that the child needs for creativity in the form of modeling. The kid will need some more materials that do not have to be bought, they can easily be found in any home. Namely:

• Plastic stand;
• Stacks;
• Decor elements (beads, beads, sequins and others);
• Toothpicks, matches, tubes.

What can be done from plasticine

Plasticine due to its elasticity and compliance provides a material for creating a variety of paintings and gizmos.

Especially popular among children is the modeling of such plasticine crafts, as:

• Animals.
• Flowers.
• Toys.
• Characters of fairy tales and cartoons.
• Vegetables and fruits.

And such plasticine crafts for children can have different shapes and sizes. It can be three-dimensional figures from which you can recreate a scene from a fairy tale (cartoon), or pictures that can also be performed in a three-dimensional technique or be flat.

How to make a picture of plasticine

Draw, or rather, to sculpt a picture of plasticine quite 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, a coloring), and he, gradually spreading clay in different colors on the surface, fills all sections of the picture.

Pictures and crafts made of plasticine flagella look very neat and unusual. Flagellar can decorate an already prepared picture or from them to sculpt figures. The main thing is to teach the child to make flagella.

The technique of the mosaic is simple and straightforward, but if you put a little patience and perseverance, then you can create a real masterpiece. To create a mosaic, the child simply needs to sculpt the balls and attach them to the surface of the picture. Crafts made of plasticine balls look more neat, if made of small balls.

How to make flagella

As already mentioned above, flagella is a rather original way to create plasticine hand-made articles. You can create shapes of different shapes and sizes from them. And this is very important, because in this way the children will be able to learn how to analyze the shapes and sizes, they will be able to find similarities and differences of objects, to correctly compare the details.

Flagellum can be prepared manually. For this, the child will need to pinch a small piece of plasticine and roll it into a thin long sausage. Or use a normal medical syringe, with which to squeeze out long thin plasticine flagella. Crafts made in this way look more neat and diversify the process of modeling.

Plasticine flowers

Plasticine crafts in the form of flowers - this is the best way to please your mother, grandmother or sister, because all 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:

1. We take plasticine of the same color, we make a flagellum and a drop. From the flagellum, make a flat cake, which we wrap around the droplet. The beginning of our rose is laid. Then roll one more flagellum, knead it and again wrap the middle of the flower. The more flagella there is, the rosier and more beautiful the rose.
2. Roll about 5-6 balls of the same size (you can more). Each ball is given a flat shape and laid out in a row so that each element overlaps the previous one. And then carefully roll them into a single element. We spread the petals, and the rose is ready.

It is not necessary to use clay in one color. You can make a decorative beauty-rose with petals of all colors of the rainbow.

Plasticine dandelion. We make a long yellow sausage. Flatten it, giving it a shape close to the rectangle, the edges should be as flat as possible. They are best trimmed or trimmed with stacks. From the long edge on one side we make fringe. You can cut it with scissors. We turn our flower together and get a magnificent and beautiful symbol of spring.

Chamomile. We take white clay, roll the sausage, divide it into equal parts. Of them roll balls. Then we give each kind of a petal, flattening the ball from one side and tearing it from the other. Petals spread in a circle, in the middle we place a ball of orange color, it is slightly flattened and a toothpick is made by stamens. Camomile is ready.

Crafts in the form of animals

Hen. To create it the child will need plasticine of three colors (yellow, red, green), eye beads, stack, cardboard stand.

Let's consider the step-by-step scheme for modeling the chicken:

• From yellow plasticine we make a small ball (this will be the head) and an oblong volumetric oval, which will become the trunk of our bird;
• Connect them;
• We mold neat figured wings from green plasticine and attach them from two sides to the body;
• From plasticine of red color we make a beak and a scallop, which is fastened to the head;
• From the beads or beads do the eyes;
• That the hen should be more stable, it should be planted on any support.

Fish. Aquarium fish are diverse, colorful and endlessly 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 can we do it? The scheme is very simple:

• A plasticine ball is rolled out, shaping the future fish;
• We mold fins and tail;
• We put these parts together;
• Beads (beads) will serve as fish eyes;
• The trunk of a fish can be decorated with various elements.

Example of a plasticine pattern

Consider how you can make a picture or applique from plasticine, using the example of a cosmic landscape. This theme is very beloved by children, because the flight of fantasy is not limited by any limits.

Let's get to work:

• Planets: we take balls of different colors (blue - Earth, red - Mars, brown - Saturn, etc.). We make of them flat circles.
• The sun is made from a ball of yellow color, the rays can serve as matches, toothpicks or plasticine flagella.
• The alien ship. Make a flat disc of a plasticine ball, attach a hemisphere of bright color to it, then attach the legs of the ship (from plasticine or improvised materials). From the beads make the portholes or signal lights of the ship.
• All these elements are attached to the board (or stand).

In this composition, you can think of anything: mysterious animals, aliens, Earth-cosmonauts and many, many others.

Children's imagination is boundless and multifaceted, therefore, in order for a child to grow and develop fully, parents are simply obliged to provide him with everything necessary. A plasticine - this is one of the most accessible and most important materials for self-expression of the baby.