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 panels from plasticine, then you can involve children in this process. The material helps to develop fine motor skills, imagination and perseverance. In addition, you can make truly beautiful crafts from it, decorating any interior.
Material selection
To make a panel from plasticine, it is necessary to prepare some tools that facilitate the work with the material. First of all, you need: a base for crafts, a board for modeling, 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, clay from different manufacturers is distinguished by its softness, brightness and number of colors, smell, etc. For example, if you have to make a panel with a child, you should choose not too hard material, odorless and harmful components. Among the manufacturers of plasticine, it is worthwhile to dwell on domestic companies - Gamma or Luch, and foreign ones - Jovi.
To roll the figures, prepare various elements of the craft, you will need a modeling board. It is not necessary to buy a special product, since any smooth surface, such as a cutting board, linoleum, etc., is suitable.
The stack will greatly facilitate the work with plasticine - a plastic or wooden knife, with the help of which details of crafts are worked out. As a basis for a panel of plasticine, you can apply: disposable tableware, discs, old plates, cardboard, plastic, glass, etc.
Execution technology
Before tinkering the craft, you need to decide on the technique of 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 working with compositions.
The simplest technique is spreading, which even babies can handle. To make the material more pliable, you need to hold it in your hands (for softening). After that, take a small amount, put it on the desired site and spread it. If desired, some parts of the composition can be made voluminous.
The technique of flagella is a great option for crafts from plasticine (panels and paintings of different sizes). Such a composition looks unusual, original and surprisingly beautiful. To make it, it is necessary to roll the flagella out of plasticine. And also they can be done with a syringe, only the material needs to be heated.
Volumetric technique is the manufacture of figures that are combined into a single composition. It looks very original mix of different options for applying plasticine. For example, the contours of crafts can be assembled from plaits, and the inside can be filled with balls or strokes.
Crafts on cardboard
The simplest and most affordable version of the base 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 with the help of a stack (apply the texture of bark, leaves).
Many boys will like to make on the cardboard a road along which a large car (or several small ones) is traveling. The picture is well complemented by trees with fruits, grass, small houses. On the road, borders and markings will look good. Connoisseurs of real beautiful cars should make plasticine panels on the 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 by blue flagella - this is water. On top of it are fish, bubbles and waves. At the very end, you can make a whale, and give it realism with a stack and a toothpick.
Flower Arrangements
Many people will like to use plasticine panels with flowers as interior decoration. For work, you need a base, clay, a stack and a toothpick. Colored cardboard or plain cardboard can be used as the basis (can be made colored using plasticine).
We carry out the work in the following order:
- We take a colored base and attach to it the petals of large flowers: daisies, roses, etc. Using a toothpick or stack we give them realism.
- We make smaller flowers, grass. We'll have to be patient, because there will be a lot of them on the panel.
- Lastly, we supplement the picture with clouds and living creatures: a bee, a caterpillar and a butterfly.
- On the contour of the finished work, you can make a homemade frame.
Children's compositions
Thick cardboard is usually used as the basis for such crafts, but disposable tableware or a piece of plastic is also suitable. We make notes on it where Santa Claus, a snowman, a Christmas tree and a month will be located. You do not need to use any complex tools and materials to make the next panel of plasticine.
For children (together with adults) it will not be difficult to perform the following steps:
- To begin, fill plasticine parts of the body of Santa Claus and the snowman. To do this, take the material of the desired color and smudge, without leaving the contours.
- The next stage is a sled with a Christmas tree. To make a sled of harnesses, and a Christmas tree of stripes lined with waves.
- Make yellow plasticine a crescent moon.
- Start filling the background with dark blue. Lastly, attach snow and pre-cut stars.
We make beautiful landscapes
A panel from plasticine - “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 to become more familiar with the time of year, forest animals, trees, shrubs and mushrooms. Take for work: blue cardboard, soft plasticine and a stack.
Getting to the execution of the composition:
- We take brown plasticine, roll out the sausage and attach to the base. So, make the trunk and branches of the tree. If desired, you can make the bark more embossed using the stack.
- We pluck off small pieces of yellow plasticine and form leaves from them. We cover them with the tree and the ground near it. As soon as they are all in place, we make streaks with a toothpick.
- In the same yellow color we roll out the harnesses and form the letters - the name of the month (by the way, you can choose another one).
- If desired, supplement the picture with mushrooms (birch bark, fly agaric), animals (hedgehog, hare).
Glass Compositions
A panel of plasticine 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, a glass base (square or round), masking tape, felt-tip pen, stack.
Getting to the formation of panels:
- First, we set the boundaries within which there will be plasticine of different colors. Simplify the work can patterns drawn on paper.
- We glue the glass with masking tape so as not to damage the hands.
- First we fill in the areas where plasticine is applied using the smearing technique.
- We make long harnesses and place them in the right places.
- We form small balls and stick them on top of the smeared plasticine.
Plasticine is not easy material for simple crafts. With it, you can create whole pictures that all households will admire. Do not be afraid to experiment with color and base selection. Try it, fantasize - you will succeed!