Modelling clay for children - templates for work and examples of crafts

Modelling with clay is loved by all children in the world, especially the younger ones. Lesson itself is very interesting, and for immature little fingers and minds, it is also useful: it develops imagination and fine motor skills, prepares kindergarteners for the lessons at school.

But the creation of only three-dimensional figures can get bored, so now in pre-school (school) institutions, as well as at home practiced a different kind of craft with the involvement of soft material - plasticine graphics.

It is nothing less than a tandem of drawing and modeling and consists in applying the material to cardboard or other solid base (glass, plexiglass, plastic).

The benefits of modeling and types of plasticine for children of different ages

Depending on the age of children should be given different tasks. In this case, classes will benefit and cause interest in different-age groups.

For kids

For the very young (3-4 gadikas), who are difficult to perform complex tasks, will approach the usual modeling or the direct method of plasticine when the basis is attached ready-made large elements or whole figures.

For example, one can depict an apple tree with a trunk, branches and leaves on cardboard with pencils or felt-tip pens, and the fruits themselves can be made plasticine and attached to the crown of the tree. Little kids will be able to cope with this task. And the benefits will be as follows:

• familiarity with the material and learning how to work with it;
• learning about colors;
• familiarization with various objects;
• Strengthening the skill of working with small parts with their fingers;
• stress relief, especially for hyperactive children.

For Kindergarteners in the middle group

Older children (4-5 years old) will gladly cope with more complex methods of plasticine drawing - "stained glass" and "mosaic".

The first consists in smearing the material along the contours of the drawing or on ready-made templates.

The second consists in filling the image in the mosaic technique: small balls are attached to the base, gently flattening them.

The result is a beautiful three-dimensional image and undeniable benefit in the following points:

• development of imagination through more complex tasks;
• Continuation of acquaintance with different methods of this kind of needlework;
• Training of assiduity, because the activity requires a lot of time (of course with breaks and according to the hourly time limit for the age);
• preparation of hands for work with a pen and a pencil.

For children in older groups

Older preschool children (5-7 years) can already diversify ways of drawing with clay. In preparatory groups, assignments are more difficult and the time for execution increases. Guys will easily cope with the work on the contour - when you fill the finished complex image should be plasticine cords.

For this, from different colors of material roll out neat identical "worms" and fill the work step by step, not forgetting about the color transition.

To get super-thin and even curls, you can use large syringes, in which plasticine is placed. The plastic syringe is heated together with its contents in hot water, and then squeeze out the sausages directly onto the image. The method requires skill and patience.

They also use a multi-layered technique - plasticine is smeared on cardboard layer by layer. Colors are mixed - unique and original images are created.

In this way you can create a tone of work, and on top place figures of animals, plants, people, made in another way - straight or mosaic. This will be a modular plasticineography, through which entire compositions are created. It is very beautiful.

Classes on plasticine painting in preparatory groups will help:

• prepare their fingers to work with scribbles;
• teach patience and skill in the work;
• develop creative thinking and freedom of imagination;
• inspire interest in interesting crafts.

Needed tools

To work we will need the following tools and materials:

• cardboard, plastic sheet or plexiglass base;
• A board for modeling;
• Stacks, toothpicks and other sticks to create a textured surface and cut off the excess;
• scissors;
• a set of clay (preferably wax clay).

Plasticine drawing for children: templates

On the Internet you can find and print out ready-made template drawings for classes: from simple to complex multi-level.

Printed sheets are glued to cardboard or cut out elements and transferred with a pencil or marker to the base.

The transferred drawing is then filled with plastic material in accordance with the theme and color scheme.

Flowers

Flowers from plasticine are "drawn" by the method of simple application.

Chamomile

To work you need white, yellow and green plasticine, as well as white cardboard, colored pencils and felt-tip pens.

How to make:

1. On the cardboard base draw grass, sky and sunshine.
2. White plasticine balls knead and form petals with fingers.
3. One yellow ball left for the heart of the flower.
4. Roll out of green plasticine thin sausage - it will be the stem.
5. Make leaves out of green balls, pinching "droplets" on both sides.
6. Attach floral elements to the base, "gluing" stem, leaves, yellow center and white petals to it. Camomile ready! If you attach a few flowers, you get a whole meadow of daisies!

Mosaic Sevenflower

Print a picture of a flower with seven petals. Cut out the pattern and transfer to cardboard. Use clay to make lots and lots of little balls of different colors and lots of green circles.

More convenient to roll out the first long sausage of a certain color, cut it with a knife and already from the pieces to roll balls. Since the seven colors has a green petal, the material for modeling the stem and leaves take another darker (or lighter) shade of green.

Fix the balls, gently pressing them, gradually filling petal by petal, leaf by leaf. The background of cardboard with pencils or felt-tip pens or do too in a mosaic technique with three kinds of green - will be unusual and bright.

Composition of roses

Older children can do with roses. Combining red, pink and blue roses with other small multi-colored flowers, intricate patterns of stems and leaves can be a cool panel to decorate the room.

And if made of air (zephyr) plasticine, which quickly dries in the air and then covered with acrylic varnish, the picture will please the housemates or teachers in the group for a month.

For work you will need:

• cardboard black A3;
• sticks with different tips;
• a set of soft plasticine (two sets are better);
• a board for modeling.

As an option - to apply plasticine not on cardboard, but on glass (or plexiglass) in a baguette, having previously created the desired tone with acrylic or to put black cardboard inside under the glass base.

The process of creating a floral arrangement:

1. Roll out long colorful sausages and cut them into pieces of different sizes. Shape into balls.
2. To assemble a rose, it is necessary to form wide petals and a small seed-bud from the balls. The first step is to attach the bud to the cardboard, and then around it to attach the petals of the queen of flowers - the rose.
3. To make the composition look beautiful, you can take an image of a panel, a picture or a photo with flowers as the basis.
4. Place small multi-colored flowers around the roses.
5. Attach stems-worms and leaves to them. Use stacks to create the desired textural surface, imitating the leaves of roses and other plants in nature.
6. Add snail patterns throughout the composition.
7. Texture can also be created with a textured fabric, such as jeans. To do this, place a flap of denim on the finished leaves for a few seconds.
8. If you like, you can add beads, rhinestones, sequins, or glass beads, as well as glitter on the flower petals. The panel will play with other colors!

The Bird

To mold the bird, you can use a ready-made template, cut out and transferred to the base. And then fill with clay of the desired color, not overstepping the contours of the pattern.

Apply plasticine, smoothing and pressing it with your fingers. Smudge or rub circles of clay on cardboard or plastic to mimic the feathers and tail of a bird. Eyes, beak and other small elements of bird's appearance are better to mold in your hands and then carefully attach them.

The result will depend on how carefully the elements are applied. Children need to teach accuracy, and plastinography can easily help in this.

Butterfly

Transfer the cut out pattern of a butterfly on the base. Prepare a set of clay. Perform the work step by step: the patterns are applied in a direct way and layer by layer.

Carefully smudge the desired colors, and small wing patterns are attached to the top.

The whiskers of the insect are formed into flagella and attached to the head. Also, if desired, you can select the elements of black plasticine, if you go over the drawing on top of thin black lines (squeeze out of a syringe of heated plasticine).

In the younger group of enough drawn grass on cardboard "glue" butterfly body of black plasticine. And to it attach four wings: two larger and two smaller red and yellow. Wings to form in the hands, the body, head and antennae, too.

Goldfish

Fish is good to do with the kids in the middle group, who have already mastered the mosaic technique.

On blue (blue) cardboard to draw a fish or transfer a printed template.

Make balls from orange and yellow pieces of plasticine (for the goldfish) and stick them under each other, imitating fish scales.

The tail and fins are made in the technique of smearing.

Eyes and sponges are made in the hands and attached to the head.

Next to the goldfish, place seaweed and seashells (you can glue natural ones). With the stack to create the desired texture of all the elements.

Fox .

Fox is performed as desired in the modular technique. For the work, in addition to tools (scissors, sticks), you need a sturdy cardboard sheet and plasticine of four colors: red (orange), white, black and blue/blue (for the background).

First, you roll out a lot of sausages from the blue material. Begin to fill them all over the sheet, creating a whimsical wavy pattern. Children in the middle and older groups will be able to cope with the work.

In fact, working with a pleasant material - plasticine - is very soothing for many children: a kind of children's relaxation, because the whole human nervous system is concentrated at the fingertips.

After all the base is filled in, proceed to create the animal itself - the fox. Shape an oval with an elongated muzzle in orange plasticine and place it on top of the blue plasticine.

In principle, if you try, you can sculpt the whole fox in your hands, if the oval to make a flat sculpture of it, and the ears, eyes, paws and tail with a white tip attached separately.

For the fox to look more realistic, use a sharp stecker to go over her red coat, imitating the fur of the animal. The eye is made of white and black material, and the nose from a small black circle.

Plasticine drawing is a very useful and fun activity for children of all ages. The resulting work can be presented to adults and children on holidays, or decorate their room.

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