Modeling is a great way to develop fine motor skills, perseverance, perception, imagination and intelligence. It enriches the baby’s sensory experience and helps in dealing with stress and aggression.
Therefore, it is important to regularly engage in this useful creative activity from an early age.
In this article I will talk about how to sculpt with children aged 1–3 years, about materials, techniques and techniques. You can also download templates for modeling lessons with your child.
How to sculpt with kids
Some useful tips for sculpting with kids:
- Start as early as possible. Is your baby almost a year old? - it's time to introduce him to dough or soft mass for modeling. Let him just pinch off pieces or make dents. This is very useful for the baby. In any case, much more useful than learning to “read from the cradle.”
- The younger the child, the softer the material for modeling should be. Start with salt dough or a special modeling compound such as Play Doh.
- Plasticine allows you to do things that cannot be done with dough or mass. Therefore, do not delay your acquaintance with this material. But for starters, also choose the softest one possible, for example, Beam Krokha (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).
- At first, classes can last 5–15 minutes, but over time the duration of the class can be increased.
- Prepare materials and tools for sculpting in advance. Remove everything unnecessary from the table.
- Come up with a plot for each lesson, play it out. This way you can keep your child interested in modeling.
- Repeat activities that your child especially liked. But don't forget about diversity.
Store your child's crafts in a special folder, and don't forget to show off your work to guests.
Also, for variety, I recommend using ready-made manuals for classes, which I will write about at the end of the article.
I find most of the ideas for modeling in Elena Yanushko’s book “Sculpting with Young Children” (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).
This manual contains a detailed description of the progress of each of the 153 lessons. This includes what you can say to your child to get him involved in a particular activity.
They are designed for children from 1 year old to at least 3 years old. They do not require complex preparation.
Junior group. Early childhood, nursery. Children 1-4 years old
Summary of direct educational activities on modeling for young children “Boots for a doll”
Goal: to continue teaching children how to sculpt from plasticine. Tasks: - Teach children to decorate a blank with plasticine. -Develop memory, imagination, fine motor skills of the hands. — Improve sculpting : rolling, pressing. - Cultivate concentration, accuracy in...
GCD summary for modeling “Fence for a bunny's house” (second junior group) GCD summary for modeling . Age group: second junior group GCD theme: “Fence for a bunny’s house”
Goals: Continue to introduce children to the properties of plasticine. Learn to take plasticine one piece at a time and roll out the stick with straight movements between your palms. Tasks: - continue...
Modeling with children 1 – 3 years old
What can a child do with plasticine anyway? Below I will talk about the basic techniques and methods of sculpting with children 1 - 3 years old.
At this age there is no question of complex crafts. But you can come up with a huge number of simple activities that will certainly captivate your baby.
You can download and print the basis for all types of crafts listed in the article.
So, while modeling, we teach the baby:
Divide plasticine . You can do this in the following ways:
- pinch off small pieces and feed them to the birds;
- tear off a large piece to feed a large animal;
- Twist the sausage to separate it for the two dogs.
Flatten with your finger, press with your palm. First you make the balls, then the baby himself.
Print, color, cut out or draw the base and have your child:
- make spots on a fly agaric, giraffe, and ladybug;
- put vitamins in a jar, sweets in a plate;
- turn on the lights at the traffic lights;
- attach wheels to a car or locomotive;
- make it snow;
- stick apples to an apple tree, berries to a rowan branch, petals to a flower, seeds to a watermelon, leaves to a tree, balls to a Christmas tree, eyes to a fish or other animal
The child can sculpt elements either in any order or in specific places.
Smear with fingers or palm. Draw a small picture of an animal and ask your child:
- hide the animal, make a den for the bear, etc., by smearing plasticine over a small drawing.
Roll out modeling clay or plasticine with a rolling pin.
Play Doh modeling kits come with embossed rolling pins. Kids love to roll out the mixture and see interesting prints on it.
Make prints with various objects. You can do this with whatever comes to hand. It is advisable to use modeling clay or soft plasticine.
Press various objects into plasticine.
For such activities, we prepare the base in advance - roll out a cake about 3 mm thick in the color we need (green for grass, blue for water, etc.). We offer the baby:
- plant mushrooms or mosaic flowers;
- push pasta in the shape of cars into the plasticine road, turtles into the sand, etc. Make rays for the sun from spaghetti, worms from curled pasta, lay out shells on the sand, then collect them in a bucket, which can be fashioned in advance from plasticine;
- make a path out of beans, make beads, plant potatoes, lay out letters and numbers (closer to 3 years);
- press seeds or buckwheat into a sunflower;
- use beads, buttons, sequins to decorate a plasticine base in the form of a butterfly, fish, Christmas tree, dress;
- Use matches to make a fence for a cow and thorns for a hedgehog.
Roll into balls , large and small. This is how you can make it from plasticine:
- pies, sweets, vitamins, apples, oranges, berries, eggs, buns, snowballs.
Roll out the sausage . When rolling out the sausages, we do:
- stripes for zebra, tiger, bug;
- stairs, fence, sleepers;
- rays of the sun;
- sausage, bananas, dryers, pretzels for the doll;
- worms, snake, snail.
Draw on plasticine in a stack . Roll out the plasticine and show your child how to draw stripes, circles, and patterns on it.
Cut with a plastic knife or scissors. Separate the plasticine by applying the ruler edgewise.
- let the child make a sausage and cut it into pieces, feeding you and the animals;
- Make cookies and geometric figures from a flat piece.
Scrape off the plasticine with a stack or ruler.
- Cover small images of animals and cars with plasticine. And invite your child to find out who is hiding there.
Use a mold for bas-reliefs . Play Doh modeling kits are ideal here, but I'll talk about them below.
Coloring with plasticine.
- Print out a coloring page for little ones or draw a simple picture. Invite your child to color it by smearing the plasticine with his finger.
The main thing is that the base is small, because the child will not have enough patience for a large craft.
Connect plasticine parts together . Simple crafts from plasticine:
- fungus, carrot, apple, tumbler, snowman, rattle, candy;
- beads, grapes, caterpillar made of plasticine balls.
String plasticine onto a wire, match or thin stick:
- caterpillar, beads;
- lollipops, cherries.
Make letters and numbers . Plasticine can be stuck to printed outlines of letters and numbers, or simply sculpted without outlines.
We do all this, of course, by coming up with an interesting plot and playing it out.
Modeling lesson in the second junior group “Baranki for guests”
Victoria Vasilyeva
Modeling lesson in the second junior group “Baranki for guests”
Target:
Teach children to roll out sausages and make
bagels
.
Tasks:
Educational – to help develop the ability to roll a plasticine sausage between the palms in a circular motion; the ability to convey the form of an object, to contribute to the enrichment of vocabulary.
Developmental – promote the development of fine motor skills and attention.
Educational – to promote a caring attitude towards others.
Material:
Plasticine, boards, napkins, a picture of bagels, toys: Teddy bear, squirrel, bunny, hedgehog. tray, plates for bagels.
Preliminary work:
accumulation of vocabulary (words “Hello”, “Please”, “Thank you” and other polite words); modeling of different sausages (large and small, organization of the role-playing game “Guests”.
Educational area:
Artistic and aesthetic development.
Progress of the lesson
1. Organizational point:
Educator:
Guys, come in, look, we have guests today, let's say hello to our guests.
Children:
Hello.
Educator:
Oh guys, we have another guest today: and to get to know him, I’ll read you a nursery rhyme:
Through rubble and ravines
Teddy Bear walks with a clubfoot
He loves bee honey
Yes, he picks raspberries from the branches.
Educator:
Guys, who is this nursery rhyme about?
Children:
About the bear.
Educator:
And here is our Teddy Bear (Shows the Teddy Bear toy).
Bear:
Hello guys, today is my birthday, and to me
guests arrived.
Educator:
And what kind of guests came to Mishka? We'll find out now. (the screen opens).
Educator:
Guys, tell me who came to Mishka’s birthday?
Children:
Squirrel, bunny, hedgehog.
Educator:
Oh bear, the samovar is standing, the guests have gathered, and where is the treat for the guests?
Bear:
Guys, I don’t know what I can treat my guests to.
Educator:
Bear, don’t be upset, we will help you. Guys, please tell me what I can treat my guests to.
Children:
They offer their options.
Educator:
Guys, I suggest you help Mishka prepare delicious bagels for his guests. Tell me, what shape are the bagels?
Children:
children's answers.
Educator:
Right.
2. Main part
Educator:
Before making cookies, let's stretch our fingers.
Finger gymnastics:
We asked our stove
What should we bake (children straighten their arms forward, palms up)
We asked the stove to knead the dough (Clench and unclench fingers)
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin
Rolled out without getting tired (Move your hands back and forth with your palms down)
We are for Mishka on his birthday
Let's prepare some treats (Bake pies).
Educator:
Well done. Our fingers have warmed up, now come in and take your seats at the tables. Bear, sit with us. Look, I have a steering wheel. What shape is my steering wheel?
Modeling from Play Doh
We got the Play Doh modeling kit (Labyrinth, My-shop) when Antoshka turned 2 years old. I should have bought it much earlier!
Modeling became my son’s favorite pastime for several months; he could sculpt 5 times a day!
We had a set called “Cookie Shop” (My-shop). It is ideal for kids.
Much later we bought the “Pizza” (My-shop), which is also for the little ones.
For children aged 1.5 - 2.5 years, it is better to buy simple Play Doh modeling kits, and older children will like all sorts of “Cake Factories”, “Mr. Nibbler”, etc.
Different sets contain different modeling accessories. These can be embossed rolling pins, cutting molds, a syringe, bas-relief shapes and much more. And, of course, the modeling mass itself.
This is one of the most useful purchases for any child.
