Plasticine octopus

Children are very fond of making funny figures from plasticine. It is worth offering the baby try to make a funny octopus from plasticine, which may become the first representative of the future marine collection.

Preparatory stage for the manufacture of marine inhabitants

It is not difficult to make an octopus from plasticine, but it is worth preparing for production:

1. Choose a plasticine that will warm up well, do not stick to your hands, have a bright color.
2. The place for work should also be organized correctly: a modeling board, a knife for cutting plasticine, tools for working with the material.
3. For comfortable work with the child, you can pre-knead plasticine.
4. You need to choose a sketch of the future product, which will correspond to the age characteristics of the child.

You can use additional materials for decoration: beads, cereals, ribbons, paper.

Making the base of an octopus

In the manufacturing process, only 3 colors are usually used. The first is the body of an octopus, the second and third are for the eyes.

How to mold an octopus from plasticine in stages, given the difficulty levels:

1. The body is made of the main color. You need to pinch off a piece of medium size and roll it into either a ball or an oval. The figure will later become the head-torso of a marine inhabitant. If the work is performed by an older child, then the head can be pear-shaped.
2. Next, make tentacles. The manufacturing principle is as follows. Take 8 equal-sized pieces of plasticine of the same color as the head. It is necessary to roll out each piece of sausage. Fold all the details together to form a snowflake. It is desirable that all parts intersect in one place. When all the elements are laid, you need to stretch the tips a little.
3. On top of the snowflakes, you need to fix the head-body, blocking the interlacing of the legs. Next, it is worth giving the tentacles a more natural shape, twisting the tips a little and laying the wave like a base.

The basis of the octopus from plasticine is prepared, the matter remains solely for decoration.

The last steps in making an octopus

When it is already determined how to make an octopus from plasticine, and the base is prepared, then you can start decorating, showing all your imagination. But first you need to make the main accents, namely the eyes and suction cups on the tentacles.

You need to roll 2 small balls of white plasticine, and then flatten them. Place on head. The same can be done with black plasticine, but these balls should be smaller than white. Instead of black plasticine, beads can be used. You can draw facial features with a toothpick or use special stickers.

Suction cups are formed from flattened balls, which are made of yellow or white material. To make the element more natural, you need to make a recess in the center of each part with a toothpick. You can replace such suction cups with millet.

Plasticine octopus can read a newspaper. It is enough to enclose a rectangle cut from an old newspaper in the tentacles. You can tie a bow from ribbons on the neck. Glue the cylinder from colored paper to get the gentleman octopus.