It is prepared from equal parts of flour and salt, which are diluted with water to the consistency of soft clay. This dough can be stored in the refrigerator for sin weeks. If desired, it can be lightly toned with juices or food colorings. To make the texture of the dough difficult, add a little mango, toast or rice to the peg. However, in this case, you will have to carefully monitor that the baby does not pull the mass in his mouth. To minimize the "creative mess!", Cover the floor in the kitchen with a film, put the baby in a high chair, and put the dough for modeling in a deep bowl or a small full one. Molding of plasticine for children from one year to two means a lot.
I mold from plasticine
When a crumb learns to handle unfamiliar material, offer him a set for modeling, which includes a variety of knifes, rollers, skalochki, molds and other interesting devices with which he will master all new and new features of clay. Please note: it is not at all necessary to buy a ready-made expensive kit. For your purposes, and suitable for conventional forms for the sandbox, and any household items. Do not expect that, having just picked up plasticine, the crumb will begin to sculpt the notorious "dolls, clowns, dogs" - before that it is very, very far. However, even now you can make sure that he not only enjoyed the process of fuss with plasticine, but also enjoyed the result.
- Mosaic panels. Between the year and a year and a half children like to pick off small pieces of plasticine from the bar. If you teach your child to paste them on a cardboard sheet, you will have a colorful abstract panel.
Pay attention: fill a large sheet the kid still lacks patience. The first work should be about the size of a business card.
- Bas-reliefs. Another favorite thing is to smear plasticine with your fingers. If you cover a piece of cardboard with a thick layer of plasticine, you can press into it yogin beans, interesting pasta macaroni, seeds and twigs found on the walk, - you will get a magnificent bas-relief.
- Dopellation. The best way to interest a child with plasticine creativity is to sculpt with him. For example, the mother sculpts the Christmas tree, and the baby decorates it with toys. Mom sculpts a snowman, and the kid makes eyes and a carrot spout. Our advice: the lesson will become even more interesting if you accompany the modeling of a fairy tale. For example, you tell a fairy tale about Masha and the bear, and the baby "bakes" cakes for Mashenka.
Sausage balls (2-3 years)
To sculpt the notorious sausages and balls, from which any manual on work with plasticine begins, is not so simple as it seems. Children under the age of two rarely have the necessary level of motor development for this. Before proceeding directly to modeling, it is worth training to prepare your fingers for unusual work. Place the child's palm on a pencil or small ball and suggest rolling them. To interest the kid, come up with a game situation: for example, you need to roll out a pencil clay for the track on which Kolobok rolls, or using a touch ball to "open" the garden.
... It turned out man! (2.5-3 years)
The sculpture of people and animals - aerobatics for a small sculptor. However, to staple the knobs separately - the head, and then attach it all to the body - is still an impossible task for the crumbs. It is easier to begin with "pulling" a figure from a single piece of plasticine. From a piece of plasticine, make about a quarter of the bar slightly pull and give it a rounded shape. - This will be the head; make protections on the sides of the body a little pull them out - these will be hands; do the same in the same way; pull out the nose and ears; "Dress" the figure, clothed it with a multi-colored plasticine, scraps, foil, natural material; Draw a face with a toothpick or decorate with pieces of plasticine and other materials. Please note: similar images can be sculpted and animals. At first the baby will sculpt together with you, pinching a spout, ears, pens, making an outfit for a little man. And only when he understands what is required of him, you can move on to independent creativity. Our advice is to blind people and animals not from plasticine, but from a self-curing polymeric mass for molding ("plastics"), they can then be played. If the kid flatly refuses to sculpt the balls and sausages, do not insist. This means that his fingers are not yet ready for this kind of activity.