How to make a hand-crafted clay craft: video lessons
From plasticine children can fashion a variety of forms and colors crafts, in addition, molding is one of the most effective ways to develop in children creative abilities. In this article, three master classes will be offered, each of which will describe a detailed instruction that allows you to understand how to make a craft of plasticine. Namely: the processes of execution of figures of a turtle, a tiger and a fish will be described.
A selection of video tutorials for beginners
This article will offer a selection of videos, which showcases the production of various toys - the original owl, colorful dragonfly and bright snail. Also, young craftsmen will have the opportunity to watch how to make a cute panda and an unusual flamingo.
Turtle
The first master class will explain how you can fashion a beautiful turtle craft. For work you will need clay, brown, black, green, white flowers, a sheet of cardboard that can be used as a base.
First of all, you need to fashion the main components of the detail, namely: shell, abdomen, head and neck, paws and tail. In order to form a shell, it is necessary to roll a ball of plasticine brown, then it is necessary to flatten the ball from one side to get a dome-shaped detail. To decorate the shell, you need to roll out thin circles of plasticine brown and attach them to the surface of the resulting detail.
In order for the abdomen to turn out, it is enough to form a small ball of black plasticine, then flatten it into a layer of oval shape and attach to the trunk from below. To perform the paws, it is necessary to form a long bar shaped like a cylinder from a slice of green plasticine and cut it into four identical parts. Each part should be rounded on one side and slightly pulled out on the other side. Also, from green plasticine it is necessary to form two cone-shaped parts, one smaller part for the tail, another for the head and neck, another for the plasticine of black color, it is necessary to make eyes and mouth.
At the final stage, it is necessary to assemble all the component parts in a single structure. First, on the cardboard basis, you should strengthen the trunk with the shell, then attach the legs, head and tail.
Tiger cub
In the second master class, the process of modeling a tiger craft will be described step by step. For work you will need clay in yellow, black, brown and white colors.
- First of yellow plasticine it is necessary to form two balls, one larger - for the trunk, another smaller - for the head. Still need to roll twelve small yellow balls in order to then have cushions on the paws. Also, three rollers, one larger roller for the tail and two identical small eyebrow rollers should be rolled. A yellow ball should be rolled for the ears, and a brown ball for the nose.
- The smaller yellow bead should be given an oval shape, so you get a head, and the yellow small ball should be cut into two pieces and fastened on the sides instead of the ears. From white plasticine it is necessary to form two details of an almond-shaped shape, so that the eyes come out, and two black strips should be attached vertically. The brown ball should be slightly flattened and shaped like a triangle to attach it as a nose. Yellow rollers should be bent and attached to the eyebrows.
- From the yellow ball of a larger size it is necessary to form a detail of the oval shape and cut it from two sides. Cuts are necessary in order to get four paws. To each paw, you need to attach small yellow balls as pads.
- The head to the body should be attached with a toothpick, then you need to attach the tail and, at last, attach the black strips.
Goldfish
The third master class will describe how you can fashion a bright fish with your own hands. For work you will need plasticine of red, yellow, black and white colors.
The first thing from plasticine red color is to mold the base of the craft, namely the fins and tail. Then you need to add yellow details, make an eye and use a toothpick to draw scales.