Plasticine figures for children: 12 step-by-step master classes

Modeling figures from plasticine is a common type of children's creativity. They begin to do this at the age of 1-2 years, the meaningful process begins at 4-5 years. Modeling develops creative imagination and improves fine motor skills of a child's fingers.

The flexibility of the material allows you to create products of any shape. For example, you can make a flat applique from plasticine on cardboard.

Donut

You will need: plasticine of bright colors, a stick, a plastic spatula.

Master Class

Roll out a ball of yellow plasticine.
Flatten the workpiece and press the center with the round tip of the stack-bulk.
Trim off excess plasticine from the back side.
Make a cake from pink plasticine.
Attach the doughnut to the donut base and make a hole in the center.
Roll plasticine flagella in bright colors.
Place the flagella in the freezer for 5 minutes.
Remove and cut the frozen flagella into small pieces.
Decorate the donut by adding sprinkles.

The plasticine donut is ready!

Step-by-step description (instructions)

Having prepared everything you need, you can start working. It is advisable to create crafts from plasticine step by step, paying attention to each stage of the process.

During your first lessons with your child, it is better to create simple figures from plasticine. You can start by teaching him how to roll balls. Afterwards it is possible to make various insects or a miniature zoo out of them.

Husky

You will need: plasticine of gray, white, black, blue, red and yellow, toothpick, stacks.

Master Class

Roll a ball of gray plasticine.
Stack 2 triangles at the top of the ball.
Attach 2 flat triangles of white plasticine.
Cover the bottom of the ball with white plasticine.
Roll out an oblong oval from white plasticine and attach it as a muzzle.
Roll the nose out of black plasticine and attach it to the muzzle.
Make eyes from blue, black and white plasticine and attach them to white triangles.
Make a tongue out of red plasticine and secure it.
Make the lower part of the mouth from white plasticine and attach it under the tongue.
Make 2 triangles from gray plasticine and attach them as ears.
Work out the features of the muzzle with a stack.
Make a body out of gray plasticine, insert a toothpick and secure the head.
Cover the dog's belly with white plasticine.
Roll 2 sausages from gray plasticine and attach them as front legs.
Make 4 white plasticine cakes and attach them to the paws as shown in the image.
Roll a sausage out of gray plasticine and mold a crescent-shaped tail.
Stack the ponytail, adding fluffiness, then attach it.
Read also: Summary of a role-playing game in the middle group for children with visual impairments Topic: “Hospital”
Make a collar from blue plasticine, and make a clasp from yellow plasticine, then make holes with a toothpick.
Draw the ears, muzzle and paws with a stack.

Plasticine husky is ready!

Useful tips

The most important thing in the process of sculpting with young children is not only to teach them how to perform basic sculpting techniques.
The main thing is that they should have fun. Perhaps some of the children will quickly get tired of modeling and will gladly switch to another game. Some people, on the contrary, are very passionate about creative work. Before sculpting, it is important to ask a child who is four or five years old what he wants to sculpt. You can offer your own option and not interfere with him, if he expressed a desire to make the figure himself, choosing an animated character as the theme, perhaps it will be some kind of fixie, and perhaps even an animatronic Freddy

Plasticine sculpture develops children's creative potential, and we should refrain from any negative criticism, on the contrary, they will encourage creativity as much as possible

If a child is experiencing frustration, it is important to address this by encouraging more practice and experimentation.

In addition to being engrossed in play, a child begins to understand cause and effect when he picks up play dough and manipulates it to change shape. This stimulates the child's creativity and tickles his intellect. From a scientific point of view, sculpting creates many new synapses in the brain, activating neurons through the senses used at work.

A pineapple

You will need: yellow, green, dark green and any color plasticine, stack, toothpick.

Master Class

Roll a ball of brown plasticine (you can use leftover plasticine of any color for the base).
Give the ball a pear shape and make the base stable.
Roll out a ball of dark green plasticine, then roll it into an oval shape.
Make a larger cake from yellow plasticine.
Combine the green and yellow cakes, then roll them out.
Turn the workpiece over with the yellow side up and draw a grid with a stack.
Wrap the brown pineapple with a yellow tortilla.
Trim off excess plasticine and smooth the joints with your fingers.
Make oblong leaves from green plasticine and cut out the jagged outline.
Stick the leaves to the top of the pineapple as shown in the image.

Plasticine pineapple is ready! Also check out the champagne and candy pineapple.

Plasticine mosaic

Children know what a mosaic is and how to play it from the age of three.

Therefore, it is not difficult for them to understand how to fill silhouettes from the inside with plasticine balls.

Adults can only prepare templates for drawing and visual material in the form of pictures.
The difficulty of appliqués made from small pieces is that the manufacturing process takes a week.
But such a drawback does not affect the mood of preschoolers; their interest in the craft does not disappear.

Panda

You will need: black, white and green plasticine, toothpicks, stacks.

Master Class

Roll a ball of white plasticine.
Push through two holes for the eyes.
Roll balls of black plasticine, then attach and flatten them.
Roll out a flat oval of white plasticine and attach it to the bottom of the head.
Attach the black spout.
Make eyes from white, green and black plasticine, then attach them.
Make black ears and attach them to the top of the head.
Roll out a roll of black plasticine, flatten it in the center and bend the ends.
Roll a ball of white plasticine and glue it to the black blank.
Connect the workpiece and the head using a toothpick.
Mold and attach the black lower legs.
Roll balls of white plasticine and attach them as pads to the paws.
Draw in eyebrows with a toothpick.
Roll a ball of black plasticine and attach it in place of the tail.
Make a bamboo stick from green plate and attach it to the panda’s body.

The plasticine panda is ready! I recommend watching this video!

We sculpt Smesharik Krosh from plasticine. Cartoon. Kikoriki made of plasticine.

How to make a dragon or unicorn

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube
You don’t have to be a sculptor to sculpt a dragon. Try to make this craft, even if it seems like it won’t work.

How to do

Roll out a ball of green plasticine. Try to stretch out one side of the mold so that it looks like an egg. Place the piece on the modeling surface and press down slightly on top. This is the body of a dragon.

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube

Prepare a slightly smaller ball. Roll out the shape so that you get a cone with a beveled top. Place it with its base on the craft, and then smooth the joint between the workpieces. This will mark the animal's neck.

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube

Make a small ball and give it a shape that resembles an egg. Fix the workpiece at the tip of the neck, and then smooth out the transition. Lightly pull back and sharpen the top of the dragon's head.

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube

Make a large ball and roll it into a voluminous cone with a pointed tip. This is the tail. Secure it to the back of your body and bend it slightly.

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube

Prepare two small and two very tiny cones with beveled tops. The first figures are the hind legs, which are attached to the lower part of the body. The second ones - the upper ones - are fixed under the neck.

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube

Attach flat circles of yellow plasticine to the paws. Use small white dots to mark the claws. There are 12 of them in total.

Frame: HowTo Clay / YouTube

Make a small yellow ball. Flatten it and fix it on the dragon's belly. Using a stack or a toothpick, draw horizontal lines on the part.

Apple

You will need: red, green, black, white and brown plasticine, stacks, toothpick.

Master Class

Roll out a ball of red plasticine.
Shape the ball into an apple shape.
Prepare a strip of brown plasticine and cut fine fringe.
Make a small indentation in the apple for the stamens.
Cut a small piece of the stamens, twist them and attach them to the apple.
Make a stalk out of brown plasticine as shown in the image.
Make a small indentation in the apple and stick the stem.
Make 2 leaves from green plasticine and draw lines using a stack and a toothpick.
Stick the leaves to the base of the cutting, then give them a curved shape.
Make a droplet of white plasticine, flatten it and stick it to the apple as a highlight.
Roll 5 balls of green plasticine and form a caterpillar.
Roll 2 very small balls of black plasticine and stick them on as the caterpillar's eyes.
Stick the caterpillar to the apple.

The plasticine apple is ready!

How does modeling affect a child’s development?

Modeling from plasticine is a fascinating artistic activity that is not just great entertainment for children. Her goals are much bigger. The possibilities of the material as an artistic project are diverse and important for the social, cognitive, emotional, and physical development of the child.

Health and emotional background of the individual

Playing with plasticine is one of a number of sensory games that play an important role in a child’s development. Sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste are all included in sensory play. In fact, it is more than just touch, sensory exploration is a child's way of exploring, discovering, classifying and making sense of the world.

Playing with plasticine helps develop fine motor skills in a child. During modeling lessons, small muscle groups in children's fingers, hands and wrists are trained and strengthened, helping to facilitate the process of learning to write. The control over finger movements used when modeling from plasticine is actually the same as the ability to hold a pen and write with it. Without well-developed fine motor skills, a child may have difficulty not only learning to write, but also performing other tasks such as turning the pages of a book, cutting, drawing, squeezing glue out of a tube, tying shoelaces, or zipping up a zipper.

Modeling calms a child during an “emotional crisis” - it helps regulate internal discomfort, be it boredom, anxiety or another type of excitement. Creating figures, be it a bunny or a kitten, or any other animal, allows kids to feel competent and proud of their achievements (“I can roll out”, “I made a smesharik”). During modeling classes, children communicate with each other, describe what they are doing and how, observe the actions of their comrades and compare actions and objects, which teaches interaction with each other and joint actions.

Mental and Personal Development

Through playing with plasticine, children express their ideas, satisfy their curiosity, analyze and solve problems, and learn symbolic thinking. While playing with play dough, children listen and talk to peers or adults, which helps them expand their vocabulary as they describe their actions, make up stories about their creations, use ideas from books they read with their parents, and refer to what they see in Everyday life.

Psychologists say that children live to play; they learn to understand the world through play. When they play, they explore, control or change their environment, and learn to concentrate on something - all of which provide a preparatory stage for later academic achievements. A child's learning depends very much on his ability to feel and touch.

Chamomile

You will need: white, yellow and green plasticine, stacks, boule, skewer.

Master Class

Make a drop of white plasticine, then flatten it into a petal shape.
Draw a stack of lines.
Make 20 white petals.
Roll up the yellow center of the flower.
Prepare a strip of yellow plasticine and cut through the fringe.
Stick a strip around the circle of the yellow center.
Stick the white petals in a circle, placing them in a checkerboard pattern.
Cover the skewer with green plasticine, leaving the tip free.
Make a cake from green plasticine and sculpt a receptacle.
Stick the bud to the receptacle.
Draw a mesh texture on the yellow center.
Make a leaf, draw the texture and stick it to the stem.

The plasticine chamomile is ready!

Girl in a boat

When the swimming device is ready, we move on to making the girl. Using strokes we create her face and hand, and then we lay out her hair and dress with plaits. And again you need to remember about light and shadow. The hair on the right will be darker and the hair on the left will be lighter. The dress should be made in layers, and you should start making it from the end, that is, from the hem. We apply strands tier by tier, creating the effect of voluminous ruffles. Let's move on to the final part - “drawing” the sea. The waves will look like swirling snails. They also need to be made in layers to create the effect of background and foreground. Some circles can be emphasized with white stripes - these will be highlights. We make a frame from the strands, and on top you can depict a wave to show the infinity of the water element.

Pendant "Snowman"

You will need: a sheet of cardboard, a simple pencil, scissors, string, tape, plasticine in white, orange, brown, black, blue, purple and green, skewer, stack.

Master Class

Draw a circle on a piece of cardboard, then cut it out.
Cover one side of the circle with white plasticine.
Make oval legs from purple plasticine, then attach them to the bottom of the circle.
Roll out an oval nose from orange plasticine, then attach it.
Make eyes and a smile for the snowman from black plasticine.
Roll 2 buttons from blue plasticine, attach them and use a skewer to make 2 holes in the buttons.
Roll the purple and blue plasticine into sausages, then form a hat as shown in the image.
Roll a ball of white plasticine and attach it as a pompom, then use a skewer to create a “fluffy” texture.
Make stick handles from brown plasticine, then attach them to different sides of the circle.
Make highlights on the nose and eyes from white plasticine.
Draw a knitted pattern onto the hat using a skewer.
Draw lines on the legs as shown in the image.
Make 3 leaves from green plasticine and roll 3 orange berries, then decorate the hat.
Attach the string to the back using tape.

The plasticine “Snowman” pendant is ready!

Master class: Lollipops

Almost all children love candy, so making candies from plasticine will be extremely interesting. For work, you can use multi-colored plasticine.

Several balls are molded from multi-colored plasticine.
The balls need to be rolled into thin sausages.
The sausages are rolled into a spiral; you can use as many different colored spirals as you like in one candy.

Ready lollipops are attached to sticks, the candies are ready.

Ice cream

You will need: plasticine of bright colors, a spatula, a stack, a wooden skewer, beads and rhinestones.

Master Class

Roll a ball of brown plasticine.
Flatten the ball into a flat cake.
Read also: Games with plasticine for the development of fine motor skills in children with disabilities
Draw lines with a stack, creating a waffle texture.
Twist the workpiece to form a cup, then secure the edges.
Roll balls of bright colors of different sizes.
Use a skewer to process the halves of the balls as shown in the image.
Place the balls into a waffle cup.
Decorate the ice cream by attaching beads and rhinestones.
Make a cherry and attach it to the top of the ice cream.

Plasticine ice cream is ready! I recommend watching this video!

DIY Making Play Doh Ice Cream Popsicles

Hedgehog

A small forest animal with thorns will end up right on your table. Even a small child can make a cute rodent. Modeling from plasticine for children is incredibly exciting fun.

How to make:

Prepare the materials necessary for work. Make a small ball from a brown base.
Now you need to stretch the resulting workpiece a little; the ball should turn into a drop-shaped figure.
Next, we sculpt a nose and eyes for the hedgehog from plasticine with the children. Attach everything to the body.
You will need to place the seeds on the surface of the sculpted figure with the pointed part facing up. Attach the “needles” in the same way as shown in the photo.
When the empty spaces on the body of the forest animal are filled with seeds, place the plasticine figurine on the cardboard. All is ready!

Crocodile

You will need: green, dark green, white, black and red plasticine, a glass stack, a toothpick, a napkin with a pattern.

Master Class

Roll a sausage out of green plasticine.
Cut the blank in half and create three parts from green plasticine: a carrot, an oblong oval and a ball.
Take the green oval and make a cut, forming the mouth of a crocodile.
Slap red plasticine into the mouth.
Roll the sausage out of white plasticine, flatten and cut the cloves, then attach them to the red plasticine.
Roll 2 green balls and make eyes by attaching white and black plasticine, then attach the blanks to the crocodile's head.
Treat the body and head of the crocodile with a napkin, giving it a patterned texture.
Connect the body and head of the crocodile using a toothpick.
Roll 4 balls of green plasticine and attach them to the paws.
Make notches on the paws with a stack.
Roll a sausage from dark green plasticine, flatten it, cut the teeth and attach it to the back of the crocodile.
Attach highlights to the eyes using white plasticine.

The plasticine crocodile is ready!

Butterfly

A bright butterfly can become a decoration in a room, and if you attach a magnet to it, you will get a decoration for the refrigerator. To create crafts from plasticine you will need the following colors:

pink and purple;
orange and yellow;
green and blue.

Follow these simple steps:

Roll two identical balls from purple plasticine.
Form them into drops and press. These are the lower parts of the butterfly's wings.
Using two balls of pink plasticine, make the two upper parts of the wings.
Roll out a “sausage” from yellow plasticine, slightly narrowed on one side. This will be the body of the butterfly.
Assemble the craft on a sheet of paper, this will make it easier to peel it off.
Connect the two upper and two lower wings.
Attach the body of the butterfly on top so that it is located on the lower purple wings.
Form a head from a yellow ball and secure it to the top of the body.
Form two balls of yellow plasticine into drop-like antennae and attach them to your head.
Make eyes from white and black pancakes and attach them to your face.
Use a stack to draw a butterfly smile, and use two small orange pancakes to create cheeks.
Roll small balls from the remaining flowers and decorate the butterfly's wings, pressing them lightly while sculpting.

Plasticine butterfly: YouTube/BubuBulks
Detach the finished butterfly from the paper. A wonderful craft can become part of an applique.

Plasticine can help develop spatial thinking, improve the baby’s physical and mental development, distinguish colors and shapes. Crafts with your child contribute to a pleasant pastime and a good mood. Let your child grow up healthy and successful!

Original article:

Grape

You will need: purple, brown and green plasticine, glass stack, thin wire.

Master Class

Make a rope from purple plasticine.
Cut it into pieces.
Roll each piece into balls.
Make a cone out of purple plasticine.
Cover the cone with grapes, leaving the top part free.
Prepare a piece of thin wire and cover it with brown plasticine, as shown in the image.
Draw the lines to create a branchy texture.
Attach a wire twig to the top of the grape, then stick the grapes around it.
Make a cake from green plasticine.
Outline the outline of the leaf and cut it out, then draw the texture.
Roll out a thin strip of green plasticine, carefully twist it and stick it to the grapes.

Plasticine grapes are ready! I recommend watching this video!

Air plasticine for children, learning to sculpt roses

Undersea world

In one craft, children are introduced to all the modeling techniques and discover the secrets that the seabed of the seas and oceans keeps.

Waves and sand are drawn on a thick sheet or cardboard with wax crayons.
The background is painted over with watercolors and dried.
A yellow piece of plasticine is flattened into a cake, and dents are made with the blunt end of a pencil. The first sea plant is ready.
Mix two colors, for example, blue and green, and roll a long flagellum. Glue to the base from bottom to top in a zigzag pattern.
Or the sausage is squeezed with fingers on both sides, as is done when making dumplings.
Another option is to glue green leaves on both sides to a thin sausage. Lines are drawn in a stack - veins. This is how three types of algae are obtained.
Multi-colored corals look like a flat circle with uneven edges and through holes. A stack and a cocktail straw will help in this matter.
The starfish consists of simple parts: a round center and 4 rays in the form of thick sausages with sharp ends. Connect them together, level the surface and make indentations with the sharp end of a skewer.
Two types of shells are made from flagella, twisting them in a spiral and zigzag.
For the jellyfish, roll 5-6 long sausages, a flat oval and a short flagellum for the body.
All figures are glued to the background, starting to decorate the background with tall plants and algae.

The underwater world is populated with fish, which are sculpted from individual parts: the body is a circle or oval, the fins and tail are flat figures of arbitrary shape, the eyes are a round mosaic.

Fox made of pine cones and plasticine

You will need: pine cone, orange, green, white and black plasticine, stack, autumn leaves.

Master Class

Make ears and an elongated muzzle from orange plasticine, roll up a black nose and attach all the parts to the pine cone.
Make a tongue out of orange plasticine, then attach it.
Make crescent-shaped eyes from white plasticine and attach green pupils.
Make eyelashes from cuttings - the tails of leaves.
Attach the eyes to the pine cone.
Mold 2 legs and a tail from orange plasticine and make cuts with a stack, as shown in the picture.
Attach the paws and tail to the pine cone.
Lay out the leaves and plant the fox.

The fox made from pine cones and plasticine is ready!

What you need to have

It is advisable to select plasticine that is pliable and soft enough so that the child can change the shape of the element without effort. A wax or other safe mass will do. There is no need to look for multi-colored products - the main thing is that the shades mix well and are bright. Be sure to buy white and black materials to demonstrate to your little one how the transformation of color saturation occurs.

At the first stages of classes, you need to prepare for work:

rolling board;
images printed on cardboard or plastic;
sticks, molds;
decorations to give the drawing a festive look;
pastry syringe (it’s easy to squeeze out sausages);
wide tape (useful for gluing a drawing before work, so that it becomes convenient to quickly correct mistakes);
wet wipes to wipe plasticine-stained hands.

Crow

You will need: plasticine, toothpick, glass.

Master Class

Roll a small ball of dark gray plasticine.
Roll a smaller ball of light gray plasticine.
Flatten the light gray ball into a flat cake.
Make cuts in a circle.
Cut off pieces of plasticine to make a star.
Connect the ball with the star.
Using a round stack, press 2 holes on the ball.
Make an oval-shaped bird's body from dark gray plasticine.
Make the wings of the bird in the shape of flattened drops of dark gray plasticine.
Make a wavy outline on the wings using a stack.
Attach the wings to the body.
Make the crow's paws and attach them.
Make 3 thin little sausages and attach them to the top of the bird's head.
Make the eyes of a crow from black and white plasticine.
Draw the eyebrows of the crow in a stack.
Attach a small tail to the crow.
Make a toothpick pattern on the raven's neck.

The plasticine raven is ready! I recommend watching this video!

WE MAKE iPhone X - iPhone 10 FROM PLASTICINE | Video Modeling