Plasticine painting for children

Plasticine as a material for creativity involves a wide range of uses. Adults with it can cope with stress, solve psychological problems, and just do creative self-expression. For children it's just a vital element of game development! And how many variants of plasticine creativity exist - there are not enough ten fingers on children's pens to count. Let us turn to this kind of stucco creativity, like plasticine painting.

Painting with clay ... What is this?

You can create paintings not only with the help of paints, which can perfectly replace conventional clay. Experimenting with the techniques of work, you can create real plasticine masterpieces, unlike each other. Painting with clay can be embossed, can be made in the technique of "scratching" or grettazh, can evenly lie on the canvas, like a watercolor print from the master's brush, and can playfully play with flagella, curlicues and peas, creating a holistic picture in the best traditions of pointillism.

Especially it is necessary to pay attention to plasticine painting for children, which, in addition to the noble goal of forming an artistic and aesthetic perception of the world in toddlers, also pursues the goal of comprehensive brain development through the training of fine motor skills, activation of speech centers and mental processes such as memory, imagination, , Attention.

Types of plasticine

For children's modeling there are many different materials that have their own pluses and minuses. So, you can sculpt from:

• Salted dough;
• Test for modeling of industrial production;
• Mass for modeling ;
• Sand (living, kinetic, intelligent, cosmic);
• Cold porcelain;
• Clay;
• Pastes for modeling;
• Plasticine.

To make stucco paintings on a rigid basis, not every material for modeling is suitable, plasticine is ideal. However, it should be borne in mind that clay is also different in species:

1. Domestic clay.
2. Play-doh.
3. Wax clay.
4. Floating clay.
5. Ball clay.

Floating clay can become the very first for a baby. It is uncomfortable that it sticks, the articles from it do not have sufficient strength, but it is soft, does not stain handles and clothes, but it also keeps perfectly on the water.

Plasticine painting from foreign plasticine takes place only on a glass base in the technique of molding "inside out" under the condition of pressing the picture between two panes. It is too soft, the details are badly fastened together. It is better to leave this kind of plasticine for acquaintance with modeling, for kids up to three years. It has juicy colors, it is easy to mix with each other, it is suitable for experiments with molds, syringes, rolling pin and stacks.

Domestic plasticine is good for molding after three, because it perfectly connects the parts together, has sufficient strength for the preservation of the picture, but too hard for small children's fingers and it is difficult to wash in case of inaccurate use.

Plasticine painting in the second younger group can be carried out with the help of ball clay, which has a pleasant to the touch structure, bright colors and sufficient plasticity to create the first children's masterpieces. It is all the more fortunate that such plasticine dries up in the air, and artifacts from it with proper storage can stay for a long time.

The idea of creating paintings is interesting by combining different types of plasticine and additional textures: sparkles, foil, sticks from ice cream, cloth. Such plasticine painting in the dhow! The older group can experiment already with a wax clay, which is characterized by an excessively good grip of parts. But it has bright colors, is pleasant in work and permanently preserves the quality of the finished work.

Basis for stucco painting

You can write pictures with plasticine on absolutely different bases! Often, ordinary cardboard is used, which can tolerate all the options for the creative expression of the baby. For older children, glass is the basis for the plasticine pattern, to which the clay is securely fixed and held for a long time. Especially good is the glass for "reverse pictures", when the plot is stuck upwards, from light tones to dark ones, from the main elements to the background.

Babies will be interested in plasticine painting on handy materials, for example, an old mp3 disc, a boring white cup or a usual plastic plate. This "picture" does not require additional design and will be an ideal gift for your loved ones for any holiday.

Ideas for children's plasticine creativity

Ideas for creativity can be scooped from everywhere! The first snow fell outside the window: the kid drew the first snowman in the yard this year and then repeated it in miniature on a cardboard. Mom brought a bucket of garden strawberries, you can blind a berry meadow on the glass. The family went to the sea in the summer and brought some beautiful shells, they will perfectly fit into the plasticine sea surf created with the kid for memory.

Plasticine painting for children must have a number of properties:

• Simple and understandable forms;
• Presence of the main element and minimum background details;
• Clear and bright primary colors.

It follows that the plot ideas can be found in ordinary children's coloring pages. The main thing is to pick up a high-quality plasticine, a solid base and stock up a good mood. Then the creation of a plastic masterpiece is simply inevitable!

A little bit about the color

As already mentioned, young children perceive the world in bright colors, so the clay should also choose clean primary colors. Closer to the school, the child himself will want to experiment with flowers, mixing them, choosing interesting shades.

Plasticine painting teaches the child the science of color, what colors are combined, complement each other. It is necessary to highlight the main colors of the picture and a few additional ones. Then, in parallel with modeling, the child will acquire a sense of style and taste, feel the beauty and harmony, which, of course, will be useful to him in adulthood.

Age restrictions or clay without borders!

Plasticine painting in kindergarten is offered at the end of training in the second early group, that is, after three and a half years. However, it is possible to deal with babies much earlier, introducing them to the foundations of stucco painting.

The work of small fingers allows us to develop fine motor skills, spatial-imaginative thinking, to study cause-effect relationships. The child learns to create and receive pleasure from the process of creation.

Features modeling with children under three years old

The smallest creators learn simple actions with plasticine: plucking a piece, rolling it into a ball or sausage, attaching the clay part to the base by pressing the finger or rubbing it.

Painting with clay for karapuzov can consist in filling the missed small elements of a picture in the form of patches of corresponding colors. The child pinches off a piece, rolls the ball and closes the patch in the appropriate place of the finished picture. The kid learns to adjust the amount of clay taken, to understand the basic colors, and also to form a complete holistic view of the picture.

Beginning of plasticine painting for children 4 - 5 years

Plasticine painting for children 4-5 years involves mastering the basic plasticine elements and the features of working with them. You can use the techniques of grinding plasticine on the basis, kneading fingers, creating pictures in the techniques of peas, curls, tow.

Children can both independently invent a story, and fill with plasticine offered to adults contours. Children of this age can already choose the color solution of the picture, not limited to the basic colors. For decoration paintings can use additional invoices.

Plasticine masterpieces of children 6 - 7 years old

Plasticine painting for children 6-7 years old is distinguished by a great variety of techniques. Children of this age can sculpt not only simple plots, but also detail the main element, using the entire palette of colors. They can experiment with mixing colors, using different textures.

Senior preschoolers can already create two and three-level stories, relief plasticine pictures.

Basic techniques for working with plasticine by element

The main plasticine element is called a small indivisible plasticine piece of a certain shape, used to create a picture. Elements are:

• A ball - a piece of plasticine is picked off and the ball rolls down with the help of a finger on the palm of the second hand or between two palms. The ball is fixed to the base by pressing it on the center and evenly rubbing it in all directions.
• A drop - a plasticine ball attached to the shape of a drop. The drop is transferred to the substrate by pressing the middle and rubbing towards the "tail" of the drop.
• The tourniquet is obtained by grinding a piece of plasticine between the palms to form a sausage or using a syringe, pulling the clay into a thin long volumetric strip. In the picture, the tows are folded in the desired way and by an easy, even pressing of the fingers are attached to the base.
• A snail is a spiral wound. With its help you can create interesting pictures, evenly pressing the elements to the basis in turn.

Basic techniques of plasticine painting

We list the main techniques for creating paintings from plasticine:

1. Plasticine painting on the glass image from the back. Molding is conducted from light to dark, from the main element to the background.
2. Plasticine pattern peas suggests filling the details of the painting with balls of appropriate colors.
3. Plasticine drawing with the fingers or stack. The technique is based on rubbing clay on the base.
4. Plasticine grafting. First, the background is formed by applying plasticine, then the main image is scratched by the stack.
5. Plasticine painting from a syringe or filament paintings. The plaits fold together, forming the details of the picture.
6. The plasticine bas-relief assumes the presence of three-dimensional details of the picture.

Stages of creating a simple picture of plasticine

Now you have learned how varied plasticine painting is! We will offer you a master class on creating a simple painting right now. For plasticine creativity, it is not necessary to have a solid baggage of knowledge and practical skills in the molded field. It is enough to have a little experience in modeling vareniki or pies, and, perhaps, enough and a burning desire to try their hand at this new kind of creativity. Let's get started.

1. The choice of the sketch of the future picture. You should start with simple children's coloring pages. For example, on the eve of the New Year, the images of a merry snowman, a furry fur-tree or a Christmas tree will be appropriate.
2. Sketch the selected skeleton. For the first time, it is preferable to use conventional cardboard.
3. The choice of clay in appearance and color. It should be preferred domestic plasticine with good molding properties, choose bright and pleasant colors. If the desired color is not available, you can mix the available colors to get what you want.
4. Selection of suitable elements, preparation if necessary, a stack for smearing techniques. It should be practiced with the basic elements of plasticine modeling: a ball, a drop, a snail and a tourniquet.
5. Filling the picture starting with the background and distant plans in the technique of the smear, then moving to the central elements, use already relief techniques. It is preferable to work from dark tones to light ones, from top to bottom.
6. Making a picture.

How to store and display a picture

It is best to keep pictures of plasticine under the glass. If the elements in the picture are embossed, you should provide a mat or a special substrate to preserve the space between the glass and the picture.

The plasticine picture should be hung in a place where direct sunlight does not reach, away from heating devices and on a flat surface in order to avoid deformation. You can store finished work in boxes under a transparent film. And more long-term storage will allow to photograph the works and give them away to the most expensive and close ones.

Enjoy your creative work!