Modeling lesson in the senior group “Red fox. The theme of the week is "Wild Animals"

Modeling with children 4-5 years old. Summaries of classes Koldina Darya Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is "Wild Animals"

The theme of the week is "Wild Animals"

Lesson 20. Bunny

(Modeling from plasticine using natural material)

Software content. Learn to combine natural material and plasticine modeling. Exercise in the ability to connect parts by pressing them together. Encourage children to represent the words of the poem with the help of movements. Develop accuracy and coordination of movements.

Handout. Acorns, ash seeds, plasticine, cardboard stands, modeling boards.

Lesson progress

Act out with the children V. Khorol's poem "Bunny":

There lived a bunny

Long ears.

Frostbitten bunny

Nose on the edge.

Frostbitten nose,

Frostbite ponytail

And went to warm up

Visit the kids.

It's warm and nice there

There is no wolf.

And they give carrots for dinner.

Invite the children to mold a hare: roll three balls of the same size from plasticine, give two balls an oval shape - you get paws, attach a ball (head) to a horizontally located acorn from above, and two paws from below.

Then you need to attach eyes and nose from plasticine and ears from ash seeds to the head, do not forget to make a round tail.

Lesson 21. Teremok

(Nalep from plasticine)

Software content. Learn to sculpt columns and lay out the desired image from them in the form of a bas-relief (the image protrudes above the background plane). To consolidate the ability to work with a stack, cut off the extra parts of the columns. Cultivate compassion and kindness.

Handout. Silhouettes of houses cut out of cardboard, plasticine, stacks, modeling boards.

Lesson progress

Ask the children to remember the name of the story:

The mouse has found a home

The mouse was kind

In the house that after all

There were many residents.

("Teremok")

Ask the children:

- Who settled in the tower? (Mouse, frog, hare, fox, wolf.)

- What happened to him then? (The bear destroyed the house.)

Say: "Let's help these forest animals - build a new tower."

To do this, roll out several balls into columns and, starting from the bottom, attach them to a teremka cut out of cardboard. The columns should be arranged in the form of logs and fit snugly against each other. Extra ends protruding beyond the edges of the tower must be cut off with a stack, especially on the roof. A window molded from plasticine is attached to the wall of the tower. To make the tower stand, you can make a stand out of cardboard or plasticine.

Ask the children for which of the heroes of the fairy tale "Teremok" they made houses. Now the animals can each settle in their own tower.

Lesson 22. Railway

(Modeling from plasticine. Collective work)

Software content. Continue to teach how to roll columns out of balls and make up a conceived object from them. To consolidate the ability to connect the parts, pressing them together, cut off the excess parts of the columns with a stack. Develop fine motor skills of fingers.

Handout. Cardboard 8 × 15 cm, several houses from the designer or towers that were made in the last lesson, plasticine, stacks, lining boards.

Lesson progress

Start your lesson with finger gymnastics:

rails, rails,

Sleepers, sleepers, (On the left palm, with the index finger of the right hand, draw rails and sleepers.)

The train was running late. (We draw a wavy line with the index finger on the left hand.)

From the last wagon

Suddenly the grain fell. (We strike with the index finger on the left palm.)

Chickens came - pecked, (We fold our fingers with a beak and knock on the left palm.)

Geese came - nibbled, (Fingers with a beak - lightly pinch the left palm.)

An elephant came - trampled. (We knock with the right fist on the left palm.)

The janitor came and swept everything. (Fingers of the right hand stroke the left palm.)

Ask the children:

Why do people need trains? (Trains carry people from city to city.)

– What is needed for the train to reach another city? (Railway.)

Build two cities with the children from the constructor and offer to build a railway between them. Distribute the prepared cardboard rectangles to the children. Ask to roll two long columns of plasticine and fix them on cardboard. Then roll out the sleepers and lay them across the rails, cutting off the excess parts.

Then all the cards are laid out one after another and you get a long railway leading from one city to another.

From the book Modeling and application with children 6-7 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 17. Uncle Misha (Modeling from plasticine in combination with natural material) Program content. To teach children to depict a scene from a fairy tale from natural material and plasticine. Continue learning to transmit proportionality

From the book Drawing with children 6-7 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Pets” Lesson 18. Dymkovo horse (Clay modeling) Program content. Continue to introduce children to the art of Dymkovo masters, to consolidate and deepen knowledge about the Dymkovo toy. Learn to sculpt from nature, conveying the shape, structure, size and

From the book Drawing with children 4-5 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 33. An unprecedented animal (Drawing with colored pencils) Program content. Develop fantasy. Teach children to draw non-existent animals on their own. To consolidate the ability to draw with colored pencils in accordance with their

From the book Modeling with children 4-5 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Pets” Lesson 35. Chickens (Hatching with felt-tip pens) Program content. Continue learning how to create a plot composition. To consolidate the ability to draw the silhouette of a chicken with a simple pencil without pressure. Strengthen the ability to fit the composition into

From the book Modeling with children 3-4 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 20. Meeting of the fox and Kolobok (Poke with a hard semi-dry brush. Gouache) Program content. Teach children to create a plot composition. Continue to learn to convey the features of the depicted objects using a hard semi-dry poke

From the book Drawing with children 5-6 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 20. Bunny (Modeling from plasticine using natural material) Program content. Learn to combine natural material and plasticine modeling. Exercise in the ability to connect parts by pressing them together. encourage children

From the book Application with children 3-4 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Pets” Lesson 17. Turtle (Modeling from plasticine) Program content. Learn to combine plasticine and natural material in crafts. Develop speech, thinking, fine motor skills of fingers. Handout. Half a walnut shell

From the book Drawing with children 3-4 years old. Lesson notes author Koldina Daria Nikolaevna

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 18. Ladder for a squirrel (Modeling from plasticine) Program content. To consolidate the ability of children to roll out columns and attach them to vertical columns with their ends. To form a desire to help those who are in it

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Wild Birds” Lesson 30. Owl (Modeling from plasticine) Program content. To teach children to combine natural material and plasticine in crafts. Develop perception, attention. Demonstration material. Pictures with underdrawn images of birds (without a wing,

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 35. Who lives in the winter forest? (Guache drawing) Program content. Learn to complement the winter landscape with the inhabitants of the forest. To consolidate the ability to draw animals, conveying their characteristic features. Practice respecting relative

From the author's book

The theme of the week is "Pets" Lesson 37. Goat (Hatching - "loop" with felt-tip pens) Program content. Continue to teach to outline the silhouette of an animal on four legs, conveying its posture and structure. Introduce a new way of transmitting images -

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Pets” Lesson 17. Pig and kitten (Colored paper. Collective application from prepared parts of the subject) Program content. To teach children to compose a whole object from parts, carefully stick the details of the application; bring the product to

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Wild Birds” Lesson 30. Swan (Application from dried leaves) Program content. Continue to teach children to create a conceived object from dried leaves; bring the product to the desired image. Learn to describe a bird from a subject picture. Develop

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Pets” Lesson 17. Goat (Finger painting. Gouache) Purpose. Continue to teach children to draw dots with their fingers, placing them close to each other. Learn to analyze and understand the content of the poem. Develop fine motor skills. Learn

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Wild Animals” Lesson 18. Hare in the snow (Pokes with a hard semi-dry brush. Gouache) Purpose. Teach children to poke with a hard semi-dry brush inside the contour. Develop the ability to listen to a nursery rhyme and imitate the movements of a hare along the course of the text. Give a glimpse of life

From the author's book

The theme of the week is “Wild Birds” Lesson 30. Swan (Palm painting. Gouache) Purpose. Continue to acquaint children with the technique of palm printing. Learn to add details to the image with a brush. Develop imagination. Demonstration material. subject picture with

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Summary of modeling classes for the middle group "Bear"

Lesson summary for artistic creation (modeling) For middle group« Bear» . (4-5 years).

Educational area - thin

Target: To form aesthetic tastes, develop creativity and thinking.

Tasks: Learn to sculpt an object consisting of several parts, conveying characteristic features (ears, muzzle). Reinforce familiar tricks modeling: rolling, rolling, connecting parts by applying lubrication. Develop independence, nurture interest in modeling.

Integration of educational regions Keywords: knowledge, physical culture, reading fiction, artistic creativity, music.

Material: plasticine; boards for modeling; Images bear; toy « Bear» .

preliminary work:

reading fiction "Teremok", "Three bear» ; "Masha and bear» , talking about wintering bear, its food products, its living conditions, looking at illustrations depicting bear, guessing riddles, viewing a presentation "Wild animals".

Lesson progress:

caregiver: Guys today a guest will come to us, but before he appears, we must guess who it is. I will give you a riddle, and you tell me the correct answer.

Clumsy and big

He sleeps in a den in winter.

Loves cones, loves honey,

Well, who will call?

Children: Bear.

caregiver: Right! Listen, a short passage that talks about bear"Which of us does not know bear? Big, clumsy, clumsy. This is the opinion we hold about this beast. But actually the bear is not. He is very mobile and agile. Bear- a formidable forest dweller who will not let anyone down if he is not in the mood. belongs to the family bearish. Bear- a predatory mammal, swims well and climbs trees. One hit - and the bear is able to destroy another animal. Legs at bear thick, the head is massive with small ears and eyes, the color of the coat is changeable. Although bear- this is a typical predator, he loves to eat and vegetable dessert: berries, fruits, grains, grass, plant roots", but do not be afraid, our guest is very kind, he came to us from a fairy-tale land.

(there is a knock on the door. The teacher brings in a toy). Guys, we forgot to say hello to our guests, how can we greet beautifully?

Children: Hello, we are very glad to see you!

caregiver: The bear told me that he was bored alone in the den in winter, how can we help him?

Children: Come on, we blind the little ones cubs.

caregiver: But first, let's play a game with you. The game is called "Bear clubfoot", it is necessary to perform movements in accordance with the text. So, let's go to our clearing, stand around.

A clubfoot bear walks through the forest,

He collects cones and puts them in his pocket,

Suddenly a bump fell, right on the bear's forehead,

The bear got angry and top with his foot.

“I won’t collect bumps anymore,

I'll get in the car and go to bed!"

caregiver: It's still early for Mishka to go to bed, it's better to go to the table and see how our guys will sculpt cubs.

Children: go to the tables and sit in their seats.

caregiver: Guys, what parts does the bear consist of?

Children: torso, head, paws and tail.

caregiver: How will we sculpt the body, what does it look like?

Children: oval body.

caregiver: And the head?

Children: Round.

caregiver: Please note that the bear's muzzle is extended, and on the head there are ears! How many ears does bear? Let's count?

Children: 1 - 2. 2 ears

caregiver: I made a bear yesterday, do you want to show you?

Children: Yes.

caregiver: I pulled out the muzzle with my fingers, and made the ears by pinching plasticine. What part of the body do you think we'll start with? Explain why you think so?

Children: From the torso, because we will attach all parts of the body to it.

caregiver: And what will we sculpt after the torso is done?

Children: Let's sculpt the head.

caregiver: Here we will have a torso and a head, do we need them?

Children: Connect.

caregiver: And in order to keep our head strong, we must use the lubrication technique. What is left for us to mold so that the bear is ready?

Children: Paws and tail.

caregiver: How many paws does bear let's count.

Children: 1, 2, 3, 4 -4 paws.

caregiver: We will make them from balloons, but we need 5 balloons, what is the fifth one for?

Children: For ponytail.

caregiver: Guys, when you start working, I will turn on the music for you, it will help you unleash your creative abilities. There is plasticine on our tables, it is necessary to divide it into 3 parts, one part should be a little larger, the other two parts should be the same. From the greater part we blind the body, from the other part - the head, and we need to divide the last part into 5 more equal parts, these will be paws and tail. Let's get to work. (music is turned on, preferably the sounds of nature)

During work, the teacher gives advice to the children, if necessary, provides assistance.

Analysis:

Look guys how cute you got teddy bears.

(Ask the children whose work they liked and why, tactfully draw attention to the shortcomings in some works, suggest trying to avoid them next time).

Guys, let's invite our guest to choose new friends. ( bear cub gladly chooses all the children's works and thanks the children for the gifts). The children invite him to come visit again.

bear cub treats children with cookies and says goodbye.

Developed and conducted by the educator MBDOU No. 38

"Dolphin", Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan

Ibyatova Guzel Zigangaraevna

Goals:

  • To consolidate children's ideas about domestic animals, about the features of their appearance, behavior, and their cubs.
  • Develop visual perception, visual attention, visual memory, thinking.
  • Raise a caring attitude towards animals; accuracy in working with plasticine.
  • Make children want to do something nice, give gifts.

Equipment: projector, drawings of pets, ball, plasticine.

Lesson Plan

1. Organizational moment.

2. Riddles.

3. Physical Minute.

4. Games.

5. Practical part.

Lesson progress

1. Organizational moment

Guys, an unusual guest came to visit us! But who is it, guess!

We drink milk

sings songs,

washes clean,

And I don't know about water.(Cat)

(To cheerful music I take out a toy - a cat.)

Say hello to the cat Murka.

Guys, our guest came to see us, what we do, what we play.

Is a cat a domestic or wild animal? (Pet)

Pets live next to a person, he feeds them and takes care of them. In turn, they also became useful for humans: they give milk, wool, meat. Guard the house.

Murka the cat wants to know what other pets you know. She will now make riddles for you, and you try to guess them.

2. Riddles "Pets".

1. Cargo is carrying, hay is chewing,

Tail waving,

The mane shakes.

I-go-go, I-go-go, I will ride far(Horse)

What do you think is the benefit of the horse? (Helps people in the household - carries a cart, people).

Where do horses live? (In the stable)

2. She lives in our barn,
Chews both hay and grass,
And gives milk to drink.
So who will call me? (Cow)

What benefits does a cow bring to people? (Gives milk, and sour cream, cottage cheese, kefir are already made from milk)

Where does the cow live? (In the barn)

3. With a beard, not an old man,
With horns, not a bull
Not a horse, but kicking
They milk, not a cow,
With fluff, not a bird,
Bast pulls, but does not weave bast shoes.
Who is this?
(Goat)

What benefits does a goat bring to people?

Warm socks, scarves, gloves are knitted from the wool of a goat, and a goat gives very tasty milk.

4. You look - caress,
Teasing - biting.
Sitting on a chain
The house guards
. (Dog)

What are the benefits of a dog? (The dog guards the house)

The dog has its own house, what is it called? (Booth)

5. Chok - Chok, piglet,

Pink hook on the back

In the middle of the barrel

I like to lie in a puddle

And grunt: "Oink-Oink" (Pig)

Where do pigs live? (Pigs live in a pigsty)

What are the benefits of pigs to humans?

3. Physical Minute "Piglets".

Lazy pigs (Round the arms along the torso)

They don't charge.

And they became clumsy(swing from side to side)

Don't get out of the puddle

No way, no way, no way.

And our guys(Hands up to the shoulders)

Everyone is exercising(fingers clenched into fists)

And they do it right(Hands to the sides, fingers open)

Like this, like this!(Hands to shoulders)

Walk in step together(Walking in place)

Like this, like this!

Guys, do you need to take care of pets?

How do people take care of pets? (Fed, watered, cleaned)

A cow grazes in the meadow in summer, and a man feeds her hay in winter. The dog loves to gnaw bones; the cat drinks milk and eats fish, and the horse is fed oats.

4. Games.

1) Let's play. I will say the names of various foods, and you name the animal that eats this food.

Hay, fish, bone, oats, grass, milk.

2) Game"Animals and their babies".(Children become in a circle, in the center is a teacher who alternately throws the ball to the children, naming adult animals. Children call the baby animals)

The horse has a foal

A cow has a calf

The goat has a kid,

A sheep has a lamb

The dog has a puppy

The cat has a kitten

The pig has a piglet.

Guys, the cat Murka told me in secret that she would very much like to have her own portrait. And let's, about our acquaintance, draw a portrait of Murka and give it to her?

Sit down at the tables

5. Practical part.

- We will draw not with paints, but with plasticine.

See what the cat has? (Head, torso, paws, tail, eyes, ears, nose).

Head:

A piece of plasticine was placed on the palm,

And covered with a palm.

Plasticine was spinning in the handles,

It quickly turned into a ball.

Attached and pressed

Our hands are not tired.

Roll up the ball, flatten it in the center of the workpiece (a circle is drawn in the middle of the cardboard base), smear the plasticine without going beyond the edges of the contour.

Let's make eyes easy

Our pens can do everything.

Roll up two balls - peas, from black plasticine, stick eyes.

Paws:

We will roll out the sausages now,

Forward - back palms move with us.

Roll up short sausages, attach the paws under the body.

Tail:

Roll up a thin sausage, attach to the side.

Ears:

We roll the ball quickly.

Together we turn into a pancake

Roll into a ball, flatten.

Spout:

Again we roll the ball,

And we press in the palms.

Roll up a small ball, flatten it, attach it to the body.

Here is the completed portrait. And we will be happy to present it to our guest.

6. Summing up the lesson.

What did we talk about in class?

What did you like the most?

What have we done with our own hands?

Wild animals. Based on the Russian folk tale "The Fox and the Wolf"

Modeling from plasticine. Senior group.
Target: Learn to sculpt an animal from one piece of plasticine in a new way.
Tasks:
Tutorial: To form the ability to sculpt animals, to highlight the main parts of the depicted object.
Developing: Develop the ability to divide plasticine into the required number of parts, determine their size and shape, work according to the scheme.
Nurturing: Raise interest in working with plasticine, evoke positive emotions from the work process and its result.
Preliminary work: Reading the Russian folk tale "The Fox and the Wolf". Dramatization of a fairy tale. Looking at pictures of wild animals. Mixing plasticine to get a gray tint.
Methods and techniques: Conversation with children, looking at pictures, working with a diagram, didactic game, practical activities for children.
Materials and equipment: A wall-mounted magnetic board, geometric figures and voluminous bodies, a fox and a wolf molded from plasticine as a model.
Demo material: Pictures depicting a fox and a wolf, an illustration for the fairy tale "The Fox and the Wolf", graphic diagrams for children (a diagram of dividing a piece of plasticine into parts, a diagram of modeling from each part of individual parts), a didactic game "Where is whose tail?".
Handout: Plasticine boards by the number of children, stacks by the number of children, a set of plasticine by the number of children, hand wipes by the number of children.
Lesson structure
1. Introduction.
2. The main part.
3. Final part. 1. Introduction.
- Children, guess the riddles ... He looks like a shepherd dog, every tooth is a sharp knife, he runs, baring his mouth, ready to attack a sheep. (children's answers). That's right, wolf. The second riddle... They say she's cunning, she takes chickens out of the yard. But on the other hand, she is beautiful - all the guys like it. (children's answers). Yes, it's a fox. (I attach a picture of a fox and a wolf to the board).
- Children, now we will learn to sculpt a fox and a wolf in a new way.
- You have plasticine sets on your tables. Whoever has an orange color in the set will be
sculpt a fox. Who has gray - a wolf. Raise your hands, who's orange? .... (I list the children) You are sculpting a fox. Raise your hands, who's gray? ... (I list the children) you are sculpting a wolf.

2. The main part.
Look carefully at the animals that I blinded ... (I demonstrate).
Tell me, how many parts do you see in a fox? (children's answers) That's right, three. Name these parts. (children's answers - head, torso, tail).
How many parts do you see in a wolf? (children's answers) Three. Name them. (children's answers - head, torso, tail).
What do you see in common between a fox and a wolf? (children's answers - both have a head, torso and tail). How are animals different? (Children's answers - the fox's tail is long and fluffy, while the wolf's tail is shorter and not so fluffy).
Fine. How many basic parts does a wolf have? (three) At the fox? (three)
So how many parts will we divide the block of plasticine into? (into three parts).


The largest part is the body, then the head and tail.



See what we need to mold to make the body? (children's answers). That's right, we will roll out a thin cylinder and flatten it.
How do we get the head? (children's answers). That's right, we will roll the ball and stretch one side.
How do we blind the tail? (children's answers). That's right, a small flagellum.
Let's get some rest before work.

Fizkultminutka.
Like our animals (clap hands.)
Paws are merrily knocking:
Top-top-top, top-top-top. (Stomping feet.)
And tired legs
Clap your hands:
Clap-clap-clap, clap-clap-clap. (Clap hands.)
And then sit down (Squats.)
Animals dance side by side. (Jumping in place.)
And how they start running - (Running in place.)
Nobody can catch up with them.
Let's get to work.(Children work, the teacher shows with parallel commenting). We divide the plasticine according to the scheme ... First, in half. We divide one part in half again. (After each action, the teacher looks at the progress of the children and the quality of their work).
We take most of it, knead it well. Rolled up a cylinder (sausage).
They put it on the board and pressed it, flattened it. With a stack we make cuts on the right and left on the workpiece. The cuts must be the same. In the places of the cut, we smoothed it with our fingertips and round the whole part to get the shape of a rainbow.
We take part 2. Roll up the ball. Fingers stretch one side, sharpen. This will be the head. At the crown we draw out two ears., They look like triangles.
We take detail 3. What will it be? (children's answers are the tail). Right. Let's play the game "Where is whose tail?" (The teacher on the magnetic board has images of animals without tails: a hare, a wolf, a fox, a squirrel. Children explain in words where whose tail is. For example, the first on the left is the tail of a squirrel, etc. Children repeat which tail the fox has, which one wolf.) They rolled up a flagellum. We sharpen at the ends.
We attach the details. What will we do so that the parts do not fall later? (children's answers - smooth out the junctions with your fingers).
We make eyes, but they should not be large. And the nose. We decorate the tail and paws of the fox.
Show what you got?

3. Final part.
Guys, what did we do today? (children's answers - they sculpted a wolf and a fox)
– Did you learn something new? (children's answers - sculpt the torso and paws from one part)
- You did a good job today. Put your forest dwellers on plates. We clean up the workplace.

Quite an exciting activity not only for children, but also for adults. This article will discuss how to mold animals from plasticine. After all, they are most often depicted in this way. Plasticine is an excellent material for the development of a child. That is why work with him is included in the programs of kindergartens and schools. Such activities develop not only the perception of color and a sense of composition in space, but also fine motor skills of the hands. Children are very fond of plasticine crafts. Animals, like fairy-tale heroes, are molded with the greatest pleasure.

How to choose the right clay

Plasticine plasticine is different. In order for the process of work to bring only pleasure, you need to choose the right plasticine. If you will be modeling with children, then it is better to choose a plasticine substitute. This is a special mass for modeling, which does not need to be kneaded before use. It also has a pleasant fruity scent. This mass is completely incapable of harming the child, even if he decides to chew it.

Its only drawback is that it dries quickly when exposed to air. For older children, you can completely use ordinary plasticine. It comes in soft, hard and medium soft. Soft plasticine does not hold its shape for long and collapses under the influence of its own weight, while hard plasticine is practically impossible for a child to knead. It follows from this that plasticine of medium softness is best suited for modeling. It is better not to use hard plasticine when working with children at all.

What you need to work

In addition to the clay itself and your own fingers, you will also need some tools, such as a modeling board, a special knife, and a wheelchair for rolling clay. Stacks will also help you in this matter. They are special plastic knives with which you can not only cut the plasticine mass, but also crush it or create recesses and dents of various shapes on the surface. You will also need matches or toothpicks to connect the individual parts together. Among other things, wet wipes will come in handy for cleaning hands during work, as well as a scheme for modeling animals from plasticine, which explains the entire process, instructions or a master class in stages. Guided by such material, you can easily master the whole process of sculpting an animal, both wild and domestic.

Basic techniques for working with plasticine

Modeling animals from plasticine is a step-by-step process. There are basic shapes that serve as the basis for creating various elements.

These are the ball, cube, pyramid, cake, drop and stripe. The cube is formed from a ball, squeezing and pressing it from four sides, and then it can be rolled out using a rolling pin for this, or left in the shape of a cube, finally aligning the edges with a flat stick. Or, for example, the "drop" shape is also created from a ball. In this case, a round billet from one edge begins to gradually compress and stretch to the desired size.

Preparing for sculpting

Before you start learning how to mold animals from plasticine, you should take care of preparing the workplace. The surface of the table at which modeling will be performed should be well lit. In addition, you should protect the workplace from plasticine. It is for such purposes that special boards serve. But if you don’t have one, then you can simply cover the table with a piece of oilcloth so as not to get dirty. For kids, you can stock up on various curly molds, and then modeling animals from plasticine will become even more exciting. You can also purchase special gloves for pens so that the plasticine does not rub into the skin during work.

Plasticine pets

In order to start modeling animals, you must first decide what kind of animal you want to portray.

Try to clearly imagine the image that will be embodied with the help of plasticine. Kids tend to choose to sculpt pets. This is due to the fact that they see them quite often, unlike wild ones. Usually, any animal begins to sculpt from the head. To create it, you need one large ball for the base and two smaller ones for the ears. Further, the necessary shape is created from these balls.

Also important is the placement of the eyes. They should be positioned so that the animal is looking straight at you. Balls for the body, paws and tail are also harvested, if, of course, there is one. An important point will be the connection of all elements into one. To do this, you can use matches or toothpicks. If you use medium soft clay for modeling, you can later play with these animals, creating various storylines involving pets.

Plasticine wild animals

The world of wildlife is wonderful. It is filled with secrets and mysteries. Children are drawn to the mysterious and unknown, which means they will certainly be interested in how to mold animals from the wild world from plasticine.

Using plasticine modeling, the child learns the world and does it easily and with enthusiasm. For a more fruitful process, you can use a photo of an animal as an example or watch a video about his life in natural conditions. The process of modeling representatives of the wild, in fact, is no different from that of creating pets. Plasticine wild animals do not have to be exact copies of their prototypes.

By showing imagination and using various types of plasticine, for example, with sparkles, you can create truly fabulous creatures. You can also add natural materials to the process. Thus, the process of studying wild animals is quite exciting. And from the inhabitants of the forests, deserts and mountains that you have obtained, you can assemble a whole zoo for the game.

Modeling and age

At what age can you start sculpting from plasticine? Already at the age of one and a half, you can give your baby a ball and show how to knead it. Of course, it is pointless to want a child to mold an elephant or a cow at this age, but he can make simple blanks that you have already assembled for him in one or another animal. At the age of three to five years, children are already able to create simple figurines of animals and birds on their own. And at the age of six, a child can sculpt more complex options, guided by diagrams or master classes. In addition, at this age, he already connects his imagination with might and main to the process.

As you can see, figuring out how to mold animals from plasticine is not at all difficult. The main thing is not to be afraid to use different materials and your own imagination. And also follow the scheme or instructions for creating various little animals. Any child will be happy to share this exciting activity with you, and you can create a huge zoo or a whole farm for games.