If your child is already 1.5 years old, you can start with him with plasticine. At this age, children are already able to master such simple actions with this material, like:
- spread on paper or cardboard ("plasticine applique");
- plucking;
- kneading;
- rolling balls and sausages (with the help of adults);
- flattening of flat cakes;
- the simplest methods of working with the stack.
One-and-a-half-year-old baby, of course, is still unlikely to be able to mold a concrete object from plasticine. But he will watch with immense delight the miracle of turning in the mother's or father's hands the shapeless colored lump into a flower, a house or a funny little animal. Over time, the kid learns to help you in creating sculptural "masterpieces", and then begins to "create" himself.
I offer you a simple step-by-step instruction on how to mold a frog from plasticine.
- To begin with, we will prepare a habitat for our future frog. We put a blue plasticine on a sheet of paper or cardboard round or oval area - it will be a pond. Then we blend a leaf of a water lily from a green plasticine: roll the ball, flatten it into a thin flat cake, place it "in a pond," draw a stack of "veins". We make a flower: roll 5 small white balls and one yellow, lay them side by side in the shape of a flower, flatten and lift the "petals", refine the flower with a stack and place our water lily on the leaf.
- We begin to sculpt a frog. For the head, we need 3 balls of green plasticine: one larger and two small. On small balls stick a small white cake - it will be the whites of the eyes. From the black plasticine we make the pupils. In a large ball, we slit the mouth and make two small indentations - the nostrils. We attach eyes to the head.
- For the trunk and legs, we roll one green "cucumber" and four thin sausages: two of the same length as "cucumber", and two - twice as long.
- Collect the frog will be directly on the leaf of the water lily: vertically set on it "cucumber" - the trunk. Long sausages bend, as shown in the photo, attach them to the body on the sides - this will be the hind legs. Stack make two notches on each foot - you get your fingers. Short sausages attach to the torso just above the "knees", "palms" rest on the sheet, the fingers make the stack just like on the hind legs.
- It remains to raise our heads on the shoulders of our plasticine frog.
- Our frog from plasticine can easily be turned into a princess frog, making her a "golden" crown. It's very simple: we roll 5 small oblong "grains" from the yellow plasticine, connect them with a "bundle" and put them on the frog's head.
That's all - a handmade from plasticine "The Princess-Frog" is ready!
