Handmade clay crafts for children and adults - a master class for beginners and ideas for professionals

Who has never heard of children's favorite material - plasticine? It is unlikely to find a person who not only did not model in childhood, but even nothing about such an activity in kindergarten, as modeling. Throughout life, plasticine accompanies a person, from elementary crafts to complex models of different design-type bureaus.

Already at school age, children are taught to make various crafts that fill the house with comfort. Perhaps someone keeps plasticine masterpieces, their pictures. Try a fun experiment.

Take a simple piece of any plasticine, warm it for a couple of seconds ... Have you already started molding? That is the real magic of plasticine, which allows a person to create.

Making a kitten out of plasticine

Most plasticine crafts for children are quite simple. You can try to make an elementary figure of a kitten. You will need classic plasticine.

Step by step instructions

Decide what color you would like to make a handicraft. Take a small piece of plasticine in the color you like.
Tear off, carefully roll out the piece of plasticine, giving it a neat oval shape to make the body of the kitten.
Make a slightly smaller ball. This will be the head of the animal, which should be placed on top of the body.
Make four small balls, and then roll them into sausages. Thus will be made paws for the cat. You will need to fix them at the bottom of the body.
Make two small pink triangles, which will be the ears, and roll out the plasticine for the tail.
Do not forget the eyes and nose of the kitten. That's it.

This is the easiest craft to make in just a couple of minutes.

Astronaut in Clay

If it seems to you that it is quite difficult to make a plasticine handicraft for the day of astronauts, this is a big misconception, because in fact, even a school-age child can very quickly make an astronaut out of plasticine.

What materials are needed

Plasticine of green, gray color. These are the two main shades that will be useful during molding.
White, orange plasticine to decorate the spacesuit.
A pair of matches or a few centimeters of wire to quickly fix the parts in the right places.
A stack.

Sequence of steps

Properly, knead the plasticine. Take a piece and roll a small ball in the palms of your hands.
Roll out the blank, pressing a little with the palm of your hand directly on the table, so that you get a somewhat oblong carrot.
On one side, carefully notch a piece of gray color, so that the jumpsuit will be highlighted legs.
Right along the split pieces you need to make transverse rings with a stecker.
From the same plasticine make a blank of several oblong rollers. On them as well as on the legs to apply the beauty of transverse rings.
Use matches or wire to fasten the arms to the spacesuit.
To make a real head-helmet, you need to roll a small ball of dark color, and then glue a pellet of light color in front.
Next, you need to connect the base of the figure with the head using wire.
You can decorate the suit with various accessories. On the sides, fix two small balls. Do not forget to glue on the bottom of the legs astronaut feet gray in the form of tortillas.
To make an astronaut out of plasticine as similar to a real one as possible, you need to make an oxygen cylinder from a bar of gray color, and then attach it to the back of the craft.

So you can easily make a holiday plasticine astronaut. He can recreate it with his own hands, even a child in kindergarten.

What is air plasticine?

Today more and more often on the shelves of supermarkets you can see air plasticine. It has many different names, so if you decided to make a craft from air plasticine, but can not find it in the store, look at the following names:

marshmallow plasticine;
a solidifying mass designed for molding;
light / velvet clay.

What you can make with air plasticine with your child

As a fun activity, many parents play grocery store with their children. To diversify the game, you can make some food out of air plasticine. For example, dessert - donuts.

The product is sure to please the child. In order for the doughnuts to be beautiful, you need to look in advance for the brightest colors of clay in the store.

It is thanks to the color that it will be possible to achieve juiciness and appetizingness of future handicrafts. Also be sure to prepare in advance a plastic tool. You will need it during the work. In most kits, it is sold together with the plasticine.

Sequence of actions during the creation of the handicraft

Take plasticine of beige/golden shade, roll it, make an oblong sausage, which can be bent in the form of a ring.
For the glaze, use yellow, pink or any other color of plasticine. Try to make it flat, and as if flowing off the doughnut.
Decorate the dessert with candied plasticine.

Using any of the master classes you like at home together with your child, you can make an unusual plasticine craft.