Being engaged with your child in interesting creativity, you will be more and more convinced that the intellect of your child is developing rapidly. Not a single interesting lesson will be in vain: over time, the baby will learn to think creatively, draw in his mind the future result and independently adjust his actions to achieve it. A suitable material for creativity is plasticine, because multi-colored sticks can be mixed at your discretion and create all kinds of details from them, and then combined into a single craft.
On this page we will tell you about the process of sculpting a wonderful bird - a woodpecker, which is also popularly called the orderly of the forest. And the child will naturally ask why this is so. Tell him about the benefits of woodpeckers, while performing sculpting operations.
1. Traditionally, any modeling lesson should begin with the selection of plasticine for work. To sculpt a woodpecker, you will definitely need black, white, orange and red pieces.
2. Cut off half of the black bar in a stack, knead in your hands, and then roll up the ball.
3. Gradually pull the resulting ball into a long sausage, pressing the plasticine with your palms and scrolling.
4. The next details that are always used to sculpt a bird are wings and a tail. Make them out of black plasticine.
5. Crown the prepared parts with small white spots, and then draw individual feathers with a stack.
6. Attach the tail to the bottom of the oblong cake, and the wings to the sides. Attach two white spots to the muzzle area to indicate the location of the eyes.
7. Place some more white on the breast. Make eyes from black dots. From orange plasticine, make a powerful beak - a woodpecker's tool and attach it to the craft.
8. Be sure to decorate the top of the woodpecker with a beautiful red tuft, because this is a distinctive feature of this bird.
9. The final stage is orange paws.
The final look of the craft. Photo 1.
The final look of the craft. Photo 2.
So our wonderful woodpecker is ready. We hope you enjoy this process.
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Modeling is one of the most popular creative activities for children. Plasticine remains among the favorites, but you can also create beautiful crafts from mastic or salt dough. The right hemisphere of the human brain is responsible for the ability to think creatively, it can be gradually developed by drawing or creating sculptures with a baby. Such classes are quite accessible for children who are already 1 year old. Gradually, crafts can become more complex in order to arouse cognitive interest.
Together with children, you can learn colors, shapes, various breeds of animals, for example or. And bird species. For example, you can create a woodpecker from plasticine, talk about the benefits that this bird brings.
How to mold a Woodpecker bird from plasticine - step by step photo lesson:
1. Stock up on bright plasticine. One kind of colored blocks will cause the child to delight and desire to be creative. For convenience, you will also need a small spatula, it is usually included in a ready-made kit.
2. Roll a small ball out of black material, then make it oblong. Make the bird's body in the form of a large black drop.
3. Form two cakes resembling a boomerang in shape. These will be the woodpecker's wings. Decorate them with white longitudinal stripes. Roll up a very thin white sausage and cut into small pieces with a spatula.
4. Assemble the prepared parts together.
5. Decorate the woodpecker's chest with white plasticine. Also place white cakes on the front part, add black pupils.
6. Make a sharp beak from an orange droplet, cut it and insert a small worm.
7. Add some bright colors. Decorate the chest with yellow and red shades, place a red crest on top of the head.
8. To create a tail, blind a lot of black and white flat droplets.
9. Connect them alternately with each other, attach the tail in its place. Taking matches or wire as a basis, blind two paws.
10. It remains to plant a woodpecker on a tree. You can mold it from plasticine or use real branches.
Bird Woodpecker from plasticine, ready.
Modeling classes develop fine motor skills and have a positive effect on the formation of speech. It is important to awaken interest in this type of activity. To do this, you should sculpt what arouses interest in the child. As a rule, children love animals and birds, so a plasticine bird is the most suitable option for classes at an elementary level.
What is needed for work
It is advisable to take care in advance that the house has everything you need for modeling, namely:
- Plasticine. For kids, it is better to choose a set with bright colors and soft material.
- Stacks. The simplest ones are made of plastic. You can buy wooden ones, although this is not necessary at the initial level.
- Plastic table mat. It makes it easier to clean up after class.
- Apron for a child.
When everything is ready, you can sculpt Birds are cartoonish or close in appearance to real ones. The former are easier to manufacture, so it is better to start with them.
How to make a simple craft
A cartoon character must have a sign by which it will be possible to say exactly who he is: an animal, a man, a robot, or something else. In this case, wings and beak will be the defining features. They must be recognizable. is done as follows:
- Plasticine can be wrinkled a little to make it softer. After that, roll up an oval - this will be the body of the bird.
- You can decorate it by rolling a smaller oval and flattening it into a cake. Attach it to the body - this will be the breast.
- Make two "drops" and flatten them - these are wings. Feathers can be drawn in a stack or laid out in stripes of a contrasting color.
- For the eyes, roll up two small balls of white plasticine, stick dots on them - pupils.
- The beak can be made in the form of a small cone or oval.
- The simplest version of the paws is two round cakes, on which the fingers are marked with a stack.
Complicated version
Since you can mold a bird from plasticine in different ways, after mastering a simple option, it is advisable to try a more complex one. The finished toy will not just be a bird, it should recognize a certain species.
One of the most recognizable birds is the woodpecker. To make it, you need only 3 colors. The sequence of actions when sculpting a woodpecker:
- Take black plasticine, make two parts: a small oval one (this is the future head) and a larger teardrop-shaped one that will become the body.
- Make two flat "drops" of black color, decorate them with white transverse stripes. A plasticine bird should have wings as close as possible in color to the wings of a real woodpecker.
- Attach pieces to the body.
- Make a white stripe and stick it on the chest. Make two marks on the head, round black pupils on top.
- Fasten a thin red cone on the head, this will be the beak.
- A red “cap” should be made on the top of the head - a small oval cake or a longitudinal crest.
- For the tail, make a lot of flat “drops” of white and black. Alternating them, form a tail.
- The paws are made of red plasticine. You can insert a wire inside so that the plasticine bird can stay on the branch.
Sculpting is of great benefit. To keep the child interested in them, you should gradually complicate the tasks, moving from simple products to more complex ones.
15. 11.2014
Catherine's blog
Bogdanova
Good afternoon, readers and guests of the site "Family and Childhood! Today I propose to make a plasticine woodpecker. A plasticine woodpecker is a bright bird, also called a forest orderly, because it heals trees, saves them from worms and insects that love to eat wood. Woodpeckers are very they fly quickly and move from one object to another, so it can be quite problematic to see them through the dense green foliage.
But the knocking of a beak on a tree is carried over a long distance. Most likely, your child knows that birds like woodpeckers exist, whether he has seen them or not. Therefore, it will be interesting for him to reproduce the forest orderly from plasticine. Use our detailed tips to help your child in the process of modeling and facilitate his interesting work.
We sculpt a woodpecker from plasticine
1. Red, black and white are the main colors that will be needed to create a bird, but black material will be used the most, so you should stock up on a whole bar.
2. Roll up an oval - the future body of the bird. To get a more interesting color scheme, reminiscent of the natural color of a woodpecker, mix black with a small amount of red, but do not achieve uniformity, then you will get a beautiful iridescent effect.
3. Another small oval is needed to create the head.
4. Stick a red oblong cake on the crown, and attach two white stripes to the sides.
5. Make a powerful beak from yellow plasticine and attach it to the central part of the muzzle. Attach two black grains to the white area.
6. Connect the head and torso using a match or wire.
7. To create the pockmarked wings of a woodpecker, blind two black triangular cakes. Then, in a checkerboard pattern, stick white dots on them over the entire surface.
8. Attach the prepared wings to the bird's body by pressing the plasticine with your fingers.
9. Make a blank for the tail - a rounded cake. Cut the tip with a stack to separate the feathers, and decorate with white dots on top.
10. Add a tail to the craft.
11. In the end, do not forget about the brown paws so that the bird can not only fly, but also walk on the ground.
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