How to make a cake of plasticine

Molding from plasticine is not only fascinating, but also very useful lesson for children. It develops fine motor skills, makes the fingers and brushes stronger, develops spatial imagination and promotes the development of creative skills.

Now ready-made sets with plasticine of several colors, various molds and devices are being made, making the modeling process more creative.

What accessories are needed to mold the cake

Perhaps, one of the most interesting variants of molding from plasticine will be the construction of a cake. After all, all babies love big, beautiful and delicious sweets. Your child will certainly like '' cook '' cake, especially if you help him in this.

So, to make a cake of plasticine, you need to take a few different colored pieces of the latter. For simplicity, you can purchase a ready-made set, for example "Play Doh". It includes many biscuit molds, cake decoration forms, a pastry syringe, and the plasticine itself is very soft, bright and has a pleasant smell.

However, you can do without special additions. We already have multi-colored plasticine. In addition to it, we will need:

• Usual plastic caps, such as those that close jars with lotions, shampoos. It is desirable that they are round in shape, although no one prevents you from making an oval, square or rectangular cake;
• Special knives for plasticine (you can take a few so that the clay is not mixed);
• toothpick;
• Beads, beads or sequins;
• Rolling pin;
• good mood.

We make a cake "Fantasy"

When everything is necessary before us, you can start making a cake of plasticine:

1. Take pink sausage from our material for modeling, roll it out and wrap it around the lid, lightly pressing.
2. The remains of this plasticine cover the top of the lid.
3. The extreme lower line is covered with a thin blue strip.
4. The same should be laid between the two upper parts of pink plasticine.
5. With a toothpick, squeeze the blue lines, giving them a relief shape.
6. Use a rolling pin to roll out four small red pieces, fold them into four rolls so that they resemble flowers. For this, make one end three times as long as the second. Decorate the cake with flowers.
7. Roll out the green plasticine and cut the leaves with a knife.
8. With a toothpick, draw lines on the leaves and complement them with the design of your confectionery product.

That's what a wonderful cake of plasticine for children we have turned out. And I want to taste it!

How to make a cake '' Rainbow ''

Many people know the famous cake "Rainbow", which looks very impressive, and, perhaps, some have already decorated the festive table. If you bake a real "Rainbow" - a very time consuming exercise, then dazzling this cake from plasticine will be much faster and more interesting.

So let's start:

1. Take the plasticine of seven rainbow colors (you can more, you can less), and roll out round round pancakes of medium thickness.
2. Put the resulting lozenges one on top of the other in the right order (at the same time teach the baby to call the color).
3. Roll out the white clay in a cake no more than 5 mm thick.
4. Using a knife, cut it into several strips of the same width.
5. Put the resulting ribbons on the finished cake, interweaving them among themselves.
6. Alternatively, simply cover the cake with a layer of white plasticine, as if it were a cream.

Our cake from plasticine is ready! High and multicolored, it will please everyone who sees it, especially those who worked on it.

A simple version of a cake for the little ones

A cake made of plasticine for children, the photo of which is given in our article, the child can do on his own, having previously made a cake with the mother "Rainbow". Here is the same concept, but the decoration itself will not be so difficult for a small creator. For him, you can take the beads or beads, or do without decorations. Such a "confectionery" product will help the child to train in order to further independently do the "Rainbow".

Molding of plasticine - this is a serious creative process for the child, so do not limit his imagination. Let the kid do the work as he sees it.