Plasticine sculpting is a great way not only to keep your child entertained, but also to develop his fine motor skills, imagination and intelligence. In the process of making crafts from plasticine, the child more easily learns color combinations, studies geometric shapes, and develops spatial thinking. You can start modeling lessons from 1, 5-2 years.
Preparation for sculpting
Ordinary store plasticine, made of clay or paraffin, is suitable only for older children, because it is quite tough and it is difficult for a baby to knead it into a plastic mass. For the smallest art lovers, it is necessary to purchase special masses of increased softness or ball plasticine.
A great option for children of all ages - homemade mass for creativity from flour, salt and water. Take a glass of each ingredient, knead the dough, wrap it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, homemade clay will become softer and more comfortable to work with.
In addition, for modeling, you will need a special plastic board or a piece of linoleum, stacks - sticks for working with plasticine, decorative elements, cardboard, paints and brushes for painting finished products from homemade mass.
DIY plasticine crafts
With a toddler who is just trying to sculpt from plasticine, start with the simplest flat crafts. For example, try sculpting "Flower meadow". To work you need cardboard, colored plasticine and pencils. If you sculpt from homemade mass - after drying, the craft will need to be painted.
On a cardboard with a pencil, draw a sketch of the future craft - leaves and flowers. Then, together with your child, start filling the space for the leaves with green plasticine, and yellow or pink for the petals. The middle of the flowers can be marked with contrasting plasticine, and the veins of the leaves can be drawn with a stack.
Teach your child to gently knead the plasticine, smear it on the cardboard, trying not to go beyond the drawn lines. Show your baby how to roll thin rolls and balls, how to use them to make stems or flower centers. Introduce your child to the ways to get new colors: for orange, for example, you need to mix yellow and red, for purple - blue and red.
Modeling voluminous crafts is a huge scope for creativity. You can use not only plasticine, but also natural material, beads, beads, cereals, jars, etc. For example, try making animals for a puppet show.
To work, you need plastic eggs from Kinder Surprises. Stick a red scallop, beak and two wings to the yellow egg - you get a chicken. Having imagined, make other figures in the same way to help the child - use images of animals. Pierce the eggs from below with long skewers and in the evening you can play out a scene from your favorite fairy tale for the household.
By teaching a child to work with plasticine, you will open up an endless world of creativity for him. And it may happen that he will surprise you with his imagination and invention.
