How to make a cat out of plasticine with a child

9Lepka develops small motor skills of hands, which contributes to mental and speech development in children. In addition, the baby begins to own his fingers and can work with small details. But getting the younger preschooler to roll balls and sausages from plasticine is not so easy, so you need to find your favorite object (animal, toy, bird, fish). Today, let's talk about how to mold a cat from plasticine.

The basic rules of modeling a cat

Regardless of how old the child is, you need to sculpt every detail, paying attention to the small elements of the kid: paws, head, ears, eyes, nose, mustache, tail, strips or spots on the coat. Also, use colors that are close to the real colors of animals. To do this, take a modern mass for modeling, which allows you to create the desired shade by kneading different tones, as in paints.

How to make a cat from plasticine:

1. You knead clay and make a long sausage for the trunk and paws.
2. Sausage from two sides cut through the stack in half, forming two paws. Note that the middle must be whole - it will be the trunk.
3. Obtain the sausage and correct the paws.
4. From another plasticine roll a ball for the head, separately produce triangular ears, round eyes and nose, thin mustache in the form of sausages.
5. On the head immediately stick ears and all parts of the face.
6. Then head with all the details attached to the body.
7. Make a tail of sausages and attach to the other end of the body.
8. If necessary, you can make strips of plasticine of a different color and attach to the trunk and tail.

How to mold a cat from a plasticine to a child?

It is difficult for a three-year-old child to work with plasticine, especially to roll small balls, attach details, while the baby's sausages do easily. Therefore, a younger preschool child can make a bed cat.

• In the beginning, roll a thick sausage for the trunk and head.
• Slightly bend the sausage in the form of the letter "C". Note that your body lies on the plank for modeling, so the paws are attached to it and to the body.
• Then make round paws and attach from four sides.
• Attach the tail, which you make from a thick sausage.
• Make triangular ears: roll small balls and form an angle from one end. Attach them to the head.
• Further you roll small balls for eyes, a nose and fasten on a muzzle.
• You can roll on the body strips of sausages, which squeeze your fingers.

As a result, the baby learns to roll balls, flatten plasticine, connect details. Five-year-olds under such scheme can freely blind the animal themselves.

How to make a cat out of plasticine to a senior preschooler?

Complicate the task. For example, to the trunk you need to stick at once four paws, draw fingers on them or form stains or pads on them from a different color of plastic. You can dazzle a cat in motion: arches, washed, lacques milk, goes.

How to mold a cat from a plasticine with complication of a muzzle:

• You roll a ball for the head. In place of the ears, it stretches a bit like a petal.
• Make triangular ears with a notch and attach to the head.
• Stack pressing on the middle of the ball, forming a horizontal line.
• In the middle of the resulting line, make a hole for the eyes.
• You roll white balls and insert them into the eye grooves. Make small black pupils and attach to white balls. Note that the position of the pupils on a white background makes it possible to form a direction of vision.
• Make a white oval and sculpt in the middle under the line where the mouth should be.
• You roll two white circles and superimpose next to each other under the eyes and over the mouth, forming cheeks.
• On them in the middle mold a black nose.
• The trunk with paws and tail is done in the same way as in the first example.

Now you know several ways how to mold a cat out of plasticine. In this case, you can use matches, toothpicks, to attach paws, tail and head to the trunk. You can take a copper wire instead of antennae, beads - instead of peepholes and a nozzle. Show the child that the same cat can be done in different ways. In this case, children's horizons expand, imagination and creative skills develop.