If your child became interested in plasticine, it means that the time of conscious creativity came, and not just riding balls. Help in this is a wonderful reason to become closer to my own child, because it is such moments that they make parents not just dads and mothers, but also friends.
Classic option
If the creative choice falls on the giraffe, it is a reason to expand the horizons of the child. Spend a small lecture in the form of a funny story about these magnificent animals. True, for this you need to prepare before yourself - go online, read information about them, prepare a video storage. This, of course, takes some time, but it is worth it. Firstly, the baby will be admired by the fact that his mom or dad know so much, secondly, children are very curious and have a phenomenal memory. The information obtained in the game will remain with them for life. Well, finally, thirdly, this is an extra reason to praise in kindergarten with your parents.
African giants are very beautiful and, despite their giantism, know how to merge with the surrounding background. An excellent topic for the story about this is a child when it comes to choosing a color plasticine for the body and specks on the skirt. The work will be much more fun if accompanying it an interesting story about the life of "living construction cranes" from mysterious Africa with its Limpopo and hypopotamas. The film about giraffes gives a visual representation to the child about what the real beast looks like. And they also have a small head with huge eyes and funny horns, located approximately at the level of the third floor of a residential building.
. For the layering of a giraffe of plasticine, you will need:
- Plasticine yellow or orange color as the main material;
- Dark brown plasticine for the mane, hoofs and specks, as well as a bit white, blue and black, to create magnificent eyes.
In addition, it will be necessary:
- Plasticine mat;
- Special cutting knife;
- matches or toothpicks for legs and neck;
- A piece of floristic or copper wire for the tail.
How to make a giraffe with your own hands?
The use of contrasting shades is a prerequisite for the reproduction of a giraffe, otherwise it is impossible to repeat the pattern on the skin of the animal.
Its beautiful stains should be clearly visible on the figure.
The mains of the primary color must be demolished in hand to get an elastic supportive material. After that, divide it into 3 parts:
- for neck;
- for head;
- For the body.
The real giraffe the head is disproportionately small - to get a pretty little animal with a silent face, you can make it more than in fact. It is necessary to add parts for the legs and the tail. These details, of course, be cooled and become hard, until the queue comes to them, so you should not strive to immediately perform them in perfect form. Dimensions are determined arbitrarily.
Now it's time to proceed to the perfusion of the body.
- The sophisticated and warm plasticine is pulled in the form of a carrot, in which one end is thicker, and the other is narrower.
- Ready "carrot" bend in about the center. A thinner end will be the neck, in the neck you need to insert a match, leaving a small tip - the head will subsequently fixed on it.
- Rolling tiny balls from plasticine contrasting color, flatten them on the rug and pose on the back and neck. It is more correct to do it now, than to sculpt on the finished figure (as they usually advise), since it has just made, a soft figure with long legs is easy to damage.
- From the same color it is necessary to make the mane and attach it to the neck.
The manufacture of the head is also available for a small child:
- It is necessary to roll the ball and pull the face slightly;
- At the tip of the muzzle to make two small pits of the head of the match - it will be nostrils;
- Help the baby portray a smile with a thinner end of the match;
- Now you should roll 2 small sausages in the form of a rozkin, 2 more are the same slightly flatten into the upper part and give them the form of the ears;
- For eye, you need to make 2 layers of different sizes from white, blue, black plasticine and connect together by making 2 eyes.
All billets attach to the head, having received a funny and cheerful face. The head is connected with the neck with the help of the protruding tip of the cervical "skeleton".
For the manufacture of legs will have to perform several steps:
- From the primary color you need to cut 4 rectangular lumps;
- stretch them into long cone-shaped parts and roll out slightly, while observing the proportion - on the one hand, they must be slightly wider;
- Now you can already insert inside the blanks of matches or toothpicks and gently "wrap" plasticine, trying to make them smooth;
- So that the legs look natural, it is necessary to add hooves - from dark plasticine to roll 8 small balls, then to make them pairwise (reason to explain to the child, which means the definition of manfall).
Finished hooves to attach to the legs, and the legs of sticking toothpicks will help the legs to the body. Do not forget to decorate the legs with specks.
Tail blank is even easier:
- from the main plasticine roll out a thin sausage;
- After that, it must be slightly rolled, as in the case of legs;
- Inside insert "skeleton" - if you use a match, then the tail will be straight, and the use of wire will make it slightly curved, which will give more lively a figurine;
- On the tip of the tail, you should join a small thickening of a contrast color.
By connecting your legs with a finished torso, you need to put a giraffe of plasticine on the table and slightly press on top to stand steadily.
Impress with bumps
Another option is to make a giraffe with their own hands from natural materials. How can you make a figurine from plasticine and cones - the method is painted in steps. Making such a craft is available even for kids age 3-4 years.
For the manufacture of simple crafts you will need:
- 2 pine or spruce cones of different sizes - you can take a fir-elbow-elongated bump for the body and for the muzzle pine small;
- Plasticine of different shades - orange, brown for body, white and black for eyes, woolen threads of yellow and orange color;
- Matches must be replaced by toothpicks - their sharp tips will help to connect all the details with bumps.
Phased production:
- From the main color to make the legs in the manner described above, not forgetting about the empty and specks;
- The legs must be connected with a large lump;
- Now the horns, ears and eyes are inserted, stick to the head-shishke;
- It comes to the story before the neck, and how to do it, it is already known to roll the sausage, pierce it with a toothpick, decorate with specks and grivy, join with your head;
- The tail can be made fantasy - weave the braid from harvested threads, to bandage at the end of the bows, leaving at the end of a brush;
- Bind the tail to the chish with the help of threads left at the beginning of the braids.
After that, it remains to connect all the details in one design and check it on stability. That's all. Cute little animal looks like a cartoon character.
How to make on cardboard?
Great way to make a wall panel applique from plasticine with a child. The field around the future flat figure provides the ability to enable fantasy and create a fairy tale in the picture. Decorate her banana palm trees, coconuts, depict sand and sea.
The principle of creating such paintings is "folding" plasticine based on or rolling with a rolling pin and subsequent sticking to cardboard.
Step by step algorithm:
- First create background - grass, sky at will, conceived landscape, leaving the central place empty - for the giraffe;
- Color cardboard will make it easier for the task and make the end result more interesting;
- After that, they paint the contour of the giraffe and begin to fill it with plasticine in accordance with the parts of the body and the color;
- Palms, bananas need to be made volumetric - in 3D, that is, they smeared the convex layer of plasticine, the drawing on it is made by stack.
Finished appliqué decorate beads, rice, butterflies. By placing work in the frame, parents together with the child can admire and be proud of it.
A detailed description of the giraffe of the giraffe from plasticine can be found in the following video.