Plasticine is an excellent material from which you can make not only simple figures, but also real masterpieces. If you choose a fabulous theme for a plasticine panel, then children can be involved in this process. The material helps to develop fine motor skills, imagination and perseverance. In addition, it can be used to make truly beautiful crafts that decorate any interior.
Material selection
To make a plasticine panel, you need to prepare some tools that make it easier to work with the material. First of all, you will need: a base for crafts, a modeling board, a stack and some other devices. Let's try to figure out which of them are needed for what, and how to work with them.
For the manufacture of crafts, you should choose the main material - plasticine. It would seem, why choose it? In fact, plasticine from different manufacturers differs in softness, brightness and number of colors, smell, etc. For example, if you have to make a panel with a child, then you should not choose too muchsolid material, odorless and harmful components. Among the producers of plasticine, it is worth stopping at domestic companies - Gamma or Luch, foreign ones - Jovi.
To roll out the figurines, prepare various elements of crafts, you will need a modeling board. It is not necessary to purchase a special product as any smooth surface will work, such as a cutting board, linoleum, etc.
A stack will greatly facilitate the work with plasticine - a plastic or wooden knife, with which the details of handicrafts are worked out. As a basis for plasticine panels, you can use: disposable tableware, discs, old records, cardboard, plastic, glass, etc.
Execution technology
Before you make crafts, you need to decide on the technique of doing the work. If you want to get a mosaic effect, you will have to roll small balls from plasticine. Pre-prepared templates drawn on the basis greatly simplify the work with compositions.
The easiest technique is smearing, which even toddlers can handle. To make the material more pliable, you need to hold it in your hands (to soften). After that, we take a small amount, put it on the desired area and smear it. If desired, you can make some parts of the composition three-dimensional.
The flagella technique is a great option for plasticine crafts (panels and paintings of different sizes). Such a composition looks unusual, original and surprisingly beautiful. To make it, you need to roll out flagella from plasticine. And also they can be made with a syringe, only the materialneed to warm up.
Volumetric technique consists in the manufacture of figures that are combined into a single composition. Mixing different options for applying plasticine looks very original. For example, the contours of crafts can be assembled from bundles, and the inside can be filled with balls or strokes.
Crafts on cardboard
The easiest and most affordable base option is cardboard, which is most often used for children's crafts. But it can also be used for large paintings, because thanks to plasticine it will become more dense. One of the options is to put a tree on the panel and make it more realistic using a stack (apply the texture of the bark, leaves).
Many boys will love to make a road with a large car (or several small ones) on cardboard. The picture is well complemented by trees with fruits, grass, small houses. Curbs and markings will look good on the road. Connoisseurs of real beautiful cars should make a plasticine panel on cardboard according to the template of a real vehicle.
The above is an example of a beautiful craft that will decorate the wall of any room. To begin with, part of the base is laid out with blue flagella - this is water. Above it are fish, bubbles and waves. At the very end, you can make a whale, and make it realistic with a stack and a toothpick.
Flower Arrangements
Many people will like to use plasticine panels with flowers as interior decoration. Forwork will need a base, plasticine, a stack and a toothpick. Colored cardboard or plain cardboard is suitable as a basis (you can make it colored with plasticine).
Perform the work in the following order:
- We take a colored base and attach to it the petals of large flowers: daisies, roses, etc. With a toothpick or a stack, we give them realism.
- Make smaller flowers, grass. We'll have to be patient, because there will be a lot of them on the panel.
- Last of all, we complete the picture with clouds and living creatures: a bee, a caterpillar and a butterfly.
- You can make a homemade frame along the contour of the finished work.
Children's compositions
Thick cardboard is usually used as the basis for such crafts, but disposable tableware or a piece of plastic will do. On it we make notes about where Santa Claus, a snowman, a Christmas tree and a month will be located. You do not need to use any complicated tools and materials to make the next plasticine panel.
Children (along with adults) can easily follow these steps:
- First, fill with plasticine parts of the body of Santa Claus and the snowman. To do this, take the material of the desired color and smear it without going beyond the contours.
- The next stage is a sledge with a Christmas tree. To make a sledge from bundles, and a Christmas tree from strips laid out in waves.
- Make a crescent moon with yellow plasticine.
- Proceed to fill the background with dark blue. Lastturn to attach snow and pre-cut stars.
Making beautiful landscapes
A plasticine panel “Autumn in the forest” can turn out to be very beautiful. It can be made quite simple (an option for children) or detailed and textured. Such a composition will help kids get to know the season, forest animals, trees, shrubs and mushrooms in more detail. Let's take for work: blue cardboard, soft plasticine and a stack.
Starting composition:
- We take brown plasticine, roll it out with a sausage and attach it to the base. So, we make the trunk and branches of the tree. If desired, you can make the bark more embossed with a stack.
- Pinch off small pieces of yellow plasticine and form leaves out of them. We cover them with a tree and the ground near it. As soon as they are all in place, we make veins with a toothpick.
- In the same yellow color we roll out the bundles and form letters - the name of the month (by the way, you can choose another one).
- If desired, we supplement the picture with mushrooms (boletus, fly agaric), animals (hedgehog, hare).
Compositions on glass
A plasticine panel on a glass surface looks very impressive and unusual. Such a composition can be a charming gift or decorate the interior of any room. For work you will need: plasticine, glass base (square or round), masking tape, felt-tip pen, stack.
Start forming the panel:
- First of all, we set the boundaries, inside which there will be plasticine of different colors. Templates drawn on paper can simplify the work.
- We glue the glass with masking tape so as not to hurt our hands.
- First, fill in the areas where the plasticine is applied with the smear technique.
- Make long bundles and place them in the right places.
- We form small balls and stick them on top of the smeared plasticine.
Plasticine is not an easy material for simple crafts. With it, you can create whole pictures that all household members will admire. Don't be afraid to experiment with color and base choices. Try, fantasize - you will succeed!
