Children's creativity plays a large role in the development of the child. Crafts, made with their own hands, develop imagination, taste, observation, coordination, eye. Classes with plasticine strengthen fingers, they get massage, fine motor skills develop. Carried away by the process, the child receives a psychophysical unloading, and showing everyone the crafts, he feels a sense of pride, becomes more confident in himself.
Learning to sculpt an owl
A child can be easily taught how to mold an owl from plasticine. This is a textured bird with big eyes, a beak, a round head, which can be made even by a novice master. What color will be the future craft - it does not matter.
It can be natural colors - brown, gray, black, or those that the child likes, and just those that are currently at hand. You will need a small amount of material of two or three colors, you can use plastic eyes, which are sold in the department of goods for children's creativity.
Sculpting steps
Let's consider how to mold an owl from plasticine in stages.
- Torso. From the main color you need to make a ball 3-5 cm in size. Putting it on the table, you can pat and crush it with your hands so that it takes the form of a cake. The upper part needs to be pulled out a little, outlining the shape of the neck and head, and at the top on it from two sides you need to fashion the ears.
- Eyes. For the eyes you need to roll two white balls, two smaller green ones, two black ones for the pupils. You need to make flat cakes out of them, putting green on white and black on green.
- Beak. The beak can be made black, dark brown, orange. It can be a small drop, strip or triangle.
- Abdomen. The abdomen can be decorated with a circle of plasticine of contrasting color, making strips imitating feathers with a special stick (or toothpick), you can attach coffee beans.
- Wings. The wings are made of two colors of plasticine, you can glue three "petal-feather" on each side.
How to mold an owl from plasticine and a fir cone?
Children are very interested in making crafts using natural materials. If you take the spruce cone with the sharp end down, it will make an excellent blank for the body. You need to make a ball of gray or brown color, its diameter may be slightly less than the length of the cone, since the owl's head is quite large, stick it to the rounded part of the cone. Eyes can be made by the typesetting method described above. It is good if plastic eyes with moving pupils are used for crafts: they look spectacular and really like children.
From bright plasticine, yellow or green, make wings in the form of large triangles, on which strips are applied with a sticker or toothpick. Three-fingered paws are molded from the same plasticine.
During the lessons, children will learn how to mold an owl from plasticine, as well as where these birds live, what they eat, what time they sleep, whether they see during the day. From white plasticine, you can make a polar owl. These are the only birds in which the eyes are located on the same plane, and not on the sides of the head, and there are auditory concha in the ears.
Despite their cute appearance, they are formidable predators. Many people want to tame a cute owlet, but their character is not very suitable for home communication.