Although it seems to many that modeling is a difficult task and not everyone can do it, in fact it is not. Everyone can make wonderful items by following simple recommendations and following the instructions step by step. The article gives some simple examples of how to sculpt vegetables and fruits from plasticine.
Why sculpt?
How to diversify a child’s leisure, to make it not only interesting, but also useful? You can read, put together mosaics and puzzles, assemble a constructor, draw or sculpt men, animals, vegetables and fruits from plasticine.
In general, modeling is a very useful activity for all children. She broadens her horizons, develops fantasy and imagination, reveals creative abilities. When a child makes figures, for example vegetables or fruits, from plasticine, fine motor skills of hands are involved, which is responsible for speech, thinking, attention. Also, the process itself will bring considerable pleasure to adults. Mom and child will have a wonderful time in company with each other, mastering a funny tiger cub or smeshariki.
One of the simplest creative options is sculpting vegetables and fruits from plasticine. Beginners can easily cope with this task.
Bananas
Making bananas from yellow plasticine is very simple! First you need to roll up two thick elongated sausages, slightly bend them. Then, with a sharp object (for example, a toothpick), draw along them several longitudinal shallow grooves. Now make the sausage thinner and shorter with a small process in the middle. To stick two bananas to this process - a bunch has turned out.
If you did everything right, your plasticine bananas will be the same as in the picture above.
Carrot
To make a carrot, you need two pieces of plasticine - orange and green. First we sculpt the blanks:
- root vegetable - we roll an orange sausage, narrowed at one end. The wider tip needs to be flattened with a finger. With something sharp (a toothpick, for example), we carry out short transverse stripes along the root crop;
- stem - we roll the green ball, flatten it with our fingers on both sides, after one end we narrow a little. With a toothpick, we draw deep wide furrows in the direction from a wide edge to a narrow one (as shown in the picture).
Now the simplest thing remains - to collect carrots from the blanks. To do this, stick the stem with the narrow side to the wide edge of the root crop. Plasticine vegetable is ready! Did you get the same as in the picture?
A tomato
Nothing is easier than making a tomato! Even three-year-olds will cope with this task.
Again, you need to start with the blanks. First, we make the fruit, for which we roll a ball of red plasticine. Now in two stages we make a green stalk with leaves: first, we need to roll a ball from the material of the corresponding color, then use two fingers to pull out five short sausages-leaves from it.
The last step is to collect our tomato, that is, simply attach a green stalk with leaves to a red ball. If everything is done correctly, you get a vegetable, as in the picture below.
Bunch of grapes
Grapes are a berry, not a vegetable or fruit. But for a change we learn how to dazzle a bunch of grapes. Moreover, to do this is not more difficult than to make a tomato. First, prepare the details: berries and leaves.
To do this, we roll 12-15 small balls from the lilac plasticine, each of which slightly with flattened fingers, giving them an irregular shape. Next, blind three volumetric ovals (they should resemble an egg in shape) and squeeze them well on both sides to make them flat.
The next step is to fasten all the berries (lilac balls) together in the form of a cone, and stick three green leaves on top (to the wide part). The grape cluster is ready!
Now have you seen that modeling vegetables and fruits from plasticine is a simple and interesting activity? Here's what we eventually learned to do - bananas, carrots, tomatoes and grapes.
Having shown a little imagination, you can make any vegetables and fruits from plasticine: apples, pears, plums, watermelon, cabbage, peas, onions, radishes, eggplant and others.
Interesting design
There should be aesthetics in everything. Therefore, made vegetables and fruits from plasticine can not just be thrown into a box, they need to be beautifully placed, for example, in a basket or on a plate. The child will do it with pleasure.
Here are on a plate, like real, eggplant.
Another plate is filled with a variety of plasticine vegetables. On it we see peas, radishes, carrots, cabbage and even a small pumpkin in the center of the composition.
And here the craftsmen put all their products in a basket. Also a very interesting solution. Try it yourself, and you will see that modeling plasticine fruits (and vegetables, of course) is an entertaining affair.