Plasticine from plasticine - an exciting lesson for children

Children from a very early age begin to sculpt different figures from plasticine. This fascinating activity allows them to develop the motor skills of their fingers, to learn new properties of objects: color, stickiness, shape and so on. Children like to create from this stuffy material of various animals, birds, as well as creatures that they come up with themselves.

Types of plasticine

In shops you can buy different types of plasticine:

• Classical. Can be soft and hard. When working on paper, there may be greasy marks.
• Ball. Can be drying up, that is, after a while it hardens in the air, and not drying (reusable).
• Safe. Made from vegetable raw materials. If a small child slips clay in his mouth, he will be harmless for him. The only thing - it is not tasty. Therefore, the child is unlikely to want to take it in his mouth again.
• Wax. Very soft, not sticky. The enemy of such plasticine is a fever. In this case, it melts and becomes unusable.

• Floating. Very light, so it floats easily on the surface of the water. The child will be pleased to play with him, bathing.
• Fluorescent. Glowing paint of this kind will not leave indifferent any children.
• Pearl. Chic pearl luster suitable for modeling fabulous products.

How to make a fish from plasticine

Of all the listed types of plasticine you can dazzle the original things, little animals. Consider, for example, how to make a molded fish from plasticine.

Depending on the further function of the future fish, a suitable clay is selected. The choice of color is not a very important procedure, since a fish can be any. It is advisable to put on an apron, so as not to get dirty. Be sure to check the availability of the necessary tools: caps of different sizes, a steak for cutting plasticine, a special knife. You can use a comb to make fins and fish tail.

Clay is taken. A circle is formed from it, about the size of a fish head. The resulting ball is slightly flattened. Next, another plasticine is taken, rolled out, flattened and cut into three pieces by a knife, of which fins and a tail are made. With the help of a comb, they are decorated with prints from the teeth. Then the resulting details are attached to the head of the fish. Then small balls are rolled out, which are attached like lips. Small gill prints are made by small caps. The final touch is to draw scales on the body of the resulting product using the handle body. Beads are attached instead of eyes. A fish from plasticine is ready.

Then it can be glued to the frame, decorated with various algae made also from plasticine. The resulting picture can be hung on the wall or presented to friends. In any case, it will give an unusual look to the room.

Goldfish with own hands

Extraordinarily beautiful turns out made by own hands a goldfish from plasticine. It is done according to the same scheme that was presented above, or you can come up with your own.

To make it "gold", you can use clay yellow color, on the head to make a crown. Then no one will doubt that this is really a goldfish from the same fairy tale by A.S. Pushkin. And you can paint the resulting figure with the appropriate paint. Then you will definitely get a goldfish from plasticine.