Caterpillar made of plasticine, how to stick it

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Modern children develop very quickly. What we were interested in only by the age of 5-6, they can do already at the age of 2 years.

It is very important to regularly engage with your child, because it is on what skills a little man receives in childhood that depends on who he becomes in adulthood.

There are a huge number of educational institutions for children from one year old: schools for toddlers, kindergartens, clubs for moms and their children, etc., but not one school and not one kindergarten will be able to attract a child to teaching games in the way that its parent can.

There are many ways to develop your child at home, it can be picking up grooves, reading books, learning from pictures of flowers, animals, vehicles, building tools and clothes, drawing and coloring pictures, picking up a designer and modeling from plasticine.

It is about working with plasticine that we will talk about in our today's article.

The benefits of working with plasticine

Experts advise to start modeling fromplasticine with children from one year old. It is at this age that the child can be aware of what can be taken into the mouth and what is not, and lends itself well to learning.

Here are some examples of how plasticine is useful for children:

• Playing with plasticine is great for developing fine motor skills of the child.
• Due to the fact that the department responsible for the movement of the fingers is very close to the speech department, plasticine modeling can significantly improve the speech of your child.
• Plasticine perfectly develops creative thinking, a molded plasticine caterpillar in childhood can be a great impetus for his imagination in the future.
• And of course, like all the games that take place at the table, plasticine modeling is good for your baby's perseverance and concentration.

In this article we will analyze how to make a plasticine caterpillar.

A little about the choice of material

For little sculptors, it is best to choose a mass for modeling from natural materials, otherwise the plasticine caterpillar molded by your child will do more harm than good.

One more condition - plasticine should warm up quickly and wrinkle well, otherwise working with it will turn into not the most pleasant experience.

If you do not trust store-bought products, then you can make a kind of plasticine yourself by mixing flour, s alt and water in equal proportions and adding food coloring to the resulting mass.

Caterpillar from plasticine, how to sculpt it

First of all, dealing withchild, remember that he cannot be forced, let the modeling take place in a playful way. Sit him at the table, explain what you will be making today and what a fun process it is. And then the development of your baby will bring joy to you and him.

• Prepare clay in yellow, purple, green, pink, white and blue.
• Let the child crush it in his hands, help him stretch all the pieces.
• Tear off a piece the size of a cherry from each color.
• Roll five small and one slightly larger balloons with your child.
• The plasticine caterpillar should have a head, so stick the horns to the big ball (to do this, ask the child to roll 2 small sticks).
• Attach two white flat eyes with blue pupils to the head.
• Blind together all the elements of the caterpillar.

Your joint craft is ready!

A caterpillar made of chestnut and plasticine is a great toy. To make it, ask the child to mold chestnuts together with pieces of plasticine, and stick eyes to the first chestnut