It is very interesting and fun to do crafts with children from plasticine. To work on a masterpiece to bring pleasure and progress quickly, parents should prepare. First you need to choose a colorful character. An ideal option would be a plasticine peacock that can decorate a shelf in a children's room.
What material should be chosen for work
Plasticine peacock should turn out bright and beautiful. It must be taken into account that the production of the figure will take a lot of material, since most of it will be necessary to form a magnificent tail.
You need to choose bright colors that will be used to model the fan. It is necessary to take yellow, red, light green or light green, blue. The main figure can be made of dark green, blue, brown or black plasticine.
To begin work on the manufacture of a peacock, it is worth organizing the workplace and choosing a sketch. The complexity of the sketch, the number of small parts and elements depends on the age of the child and his skills.
The principle of implementation of the main parts of the figure
Before you mold a peacock from clay, you need to think through the whole algorithm. The phased implementation of the steps consists of the following steps:
- A piece of plasticine of the main color is divided into 3 parts, but not equal. It is necessary to divide the whole piece in half, and then cut another 1/3 part from one of them - this will be the head; most are tail; half is the torso.
- From a small part, first make a sphere, which then needs to be converted into an oval. This form will be ideal for the formation of the head.
- From the piece for the body to separate a small piece that will need to be rolled into a sausage - this is the neck. It is worth considering that in the peacock this part of the body is short and not too thick.
- The body is formed according to the same principle as the head of a bird.
- The third part should be divided into several equal pieces. Each part is a feather, but because the more parts, the better. To do this, roll all the pieces into sausages, which should be approximately the same length and thickness. Flatten each element, forming a long teardrop-shaped oval.
A full-fledged peacock from clay will be obtained only after assembly and decoration, which should be done on the principle of pottery.
Assembly
In the process of forming individual parts, the question arises as to how to make a peacock from plasticine more natural and “alive”. It all depends on the build quality and processing of each element.
It is necessary to interconnect the blanks of the head, neck, torso and attach each feather from the tail. To hide the transitions between the parts, you need to use well-crushed clay. All cracks and joints are rubbed with a small amount of material.
Depending on the main color, an additional one is chosen that will correctly combine with the main one. From it wings are formed, which are made in the form of drops. To hide the connection of the tail feathers with the body, you need to make many small circles from the additional color and attach them at the base of the tail. A little extra color needs to be distributed over the tail feathers.
What decorative elements can be used additionally
To make the figure more colorful and vibrant, you can take other materials instead of clay to decorate the tail feathers and wings: beads, beads, rhinestones, sparkles, stained glass glue. It is necessary to apply several layers of circles from a larger to a smaller one, and at the top of each layer-by-layer application, place a bead (pebble, pearl, etc.)
A plasticine peacock should also have eyes, a beak, paws and a crest. The fan on the head can be made of thin pieces of wire with one bead on top of each of them. Such items need to be prepared 3-5 pieces.
Paws can be ordinary matches, which then need to be stuck in an island prepared from plasticine. Additionally, you can use any tricks and materials for decorating crafts.