What can be made from plasticine with their own hands: new ideas for crafts with children

Plasticine is a wonderful material for performing crafts on a variety of topics. In this article, the master classes will be presented with a detailed explanation of how and what can be done from plasticine with their own hands. It will be described what crafts on the New Year theme can be fashioned, and instructions for the manufacture of miniature food will also be offered. In addition, it will be told how you can make solid pictures of such material. Below you can see what cool toys are obtained in the end.

For example, a snowman:

Funny Santa Claus:

And a mouth-watering hamburger( although it's more like even a cheeseburger):

Well, a simple winter landscape:

Video tutorials for the very first beginners

This article will present a selection of videos inwhich needlewomen will share ideas and show how to work with plasticine, and what can be done from this material. Namely: it will be shown how to fashion New Year's crafts, miniature doll's food from plasticine play before.

Making a snowman

For the New Year as a craftsman made of plasticine, you can fashion a snowman or Santa Claus.

In order to fashion a snowman, you will need clay in several colors, namely: white, blue, red and black. First of all, you need to form three balls of different sizes from white. From it, you should roll two identical small balls, which will serve as hands for a snowman. Then a blue bucket and two buttons should be molded out, and a red nose and a lip should be made. After that, you can start assembling all the component parts, in order to first connect the three white balls, then attach the bucket and hands. Next, you need to fasten your nose, lips and fashion your eyes out of black plasticine. Do not forget to attach the buttons. In order to make a broom, you need to stick a toothpick with black plasticine to get the base, and the other toothpick should be broken into small pieces and make a branch from them. In order for the snowman to be more stable, you can roll out the white sausage and attach it to the base of the snowman.

Making the Grandfather Frost

In order to make Santa Claus, plasticine of red, pink and white colors is required. First of all, two balls should be formed from red: one larger, one smaller, and two identical small balls. Then the prepared parts should be connected, as will be shown in the diagram. Then from white, you need to roll out two sausages, one bigger, since it is necessary to form a beard out of it, and one smaller, it will be needed to finish the cap. To make the hat itself, you need a small red ball, which should be slightly flattened. Still from white plasticine it is necessary to roll two flagella for furnish of a fur coat. You also need to make white whiskers, eyebrows and buttons, and the nose should be dazzled from red, eyes - from black. At the final stage, all the details must be attached. You can still fashion a bag with gifts.

Food for dolls

Realistically looks like a plasticine made food for dolls. For example, in order to make a hamburger, you need: clay, brown, red, green, yellow and white, toothpicks. First, from different colors, it is necessary to form the component parts, as will be shown in the photo. Then the ball of light brown color should be divided into two parts and roll them out to make two halves of a bun. A ball of green color should be rolled into a layer with uneven edges. Then we need to roll out a ball of brown color and use a toothpick to make holes. Next, you need to roll out thin pieces of plasticine yellow and red in thin layers. After all the details are ready, they can be combined. First, the bottom half of the bun, on it you must put a green piece, then yellow, then brown and then red, again yellow and, finally, put the second half of the bun.

Drawing a picture

From a material such as plasticine, you can create solid pictures of varying degrees of complexity. A simple option is when on the sheet of cardboard the contours of the future characters of the picture are drawn, and then with the help of plasticine these contours are filled. A more complicated variant is when graphic illustrations of painting are used in composing a plasticine illustration. Examples of finished works are shown in the photo.