
Lessons on modeling and creation of hand-made articles on the theme of flowers for children. Master classes on modeling colors from various materials.
Flowers not only look beautiful and haveexquisite aroma. They inspire creativity with their existence. They are depicted in paintings, embroidered and sculpted. Flowers are a great theme for crafts in children's modeling classes. This article will tell you how a child can create a flower from plasticine, dough or clay. Creativity – it is an integral part of our life. Some paint voluminous, bright canvases, some knit or crochet, while others come up with beautiful moldings and interior accessories, like a vase with flowers made of cold porcelain. When engaging in a favorite hobby, fantasy and inspired ideas are given vent. Your mood improves. And wonderful things made with your own hands will be an excellent and original gift. Modeling – one of the most famous and accessible types of creativity. You can sculpt from clay, plasticine, culinary mastic, dough or plaster. There are a lot of plastic materials for creating masterpieces. This creative action has a significant plus – Modeling has a great effect on children's development. By making crafts with their own hands, kids improve fine motor skills, speech, memory and attention. The little ones learn concentration and independence. Children's modeling materials, such as plasticine, dough and clay, are created from safe materials. They have bright colors, plasticity suitable for children's hands, and do not have an unpleasant odor. You can buy them at a specialized arts and crafts store, or you can prepare them yourself at home. In order to sculpt with your baby, you need to prepare a workplace. Cover the table and the floor around it with paper or oilcloth. Make sure that during the modeling process the furniture does not acquire additional decorative elements in the form of pieces of plasticine or clay. Kids enjoy imagining their imaginations while sculpting and creating crafts. But sometimes a child may have difficulty creating a whole finished image, and the task of adults is to suggest a topic for crafts to young sculptors. The subject of sculpting can be your favorite cartoon character, a zoo animal, furniture or a pet. One of the broad themes for sculpting is flowers. They can be made flat or voluminous. Use the first to create a picture or postcard, and put the second in a vase. Flowers made of plasticine.There are currently about a dozentypes of plasticine. There is hard, medium-soft and soft plasticine (plasticine mass for modeling). The latter does not require additional kneading and is suitable for very young children. There are plasticine options with various additives. It can be pearlescent or glow in the dark, and not so long ago plasticine appeared that does not sink in water. To work you will need:
- Special board for work;
- Knife for cutting plasticine;
- Toothpicks for perforating holes;
- Additional materials for decorating (Buttons, pieces of foil or fabric, sequins, in general, everything that fantasy tells).
The easiest way to work with dataThe material that is best suited for introducing clay is smudging. You just need to give your child a piece of cardboard or any other solid base, if necessary, draw the outlines of the future flower and invite him to color it. Only instead of paints there will be plasticine.Or you can roll the plasticine into a thin cake.Let the baby use a special rolling pin; even an ordinary glass bottle will do. It is worth discussing in detail with the baby the shape, size and color of the image. Then use a knife to cut out the petals and leaves of the flowers and attach them to the base, having previously outlined the outline of the flower on it. If desired, use a toothpick to draw veins on the leaves and core. These methods are good for creating cards or paintings. It’s very easy to take a ready-made one as an example or come up with a flower together with your child. With older children you can sculpt voluminous flowers. Use auxiliary material such as cocktail straws, toothpicks or matches. Bouquet of sunflowers.
To create you will need:
- Board for work (plastic or glass);
- Plasticine (green, light yellow, red, orange, black, blue);
- Scissors;
- Knife for cutting plasticine.
To create these sunflowers you will need to mix several colors of plasticine.


The bouquet of sunflowers is ready Cornflower.To work you will need:
- Board for work;
- Yellow, blue and green clay;
- Cutting knife.
To create a flower you need:





The cornflower is ready. Dough flowers.Play dough is great for activities with little ones. You can buy it or make it from natural ingredients at home with your own hands. In the latter case, even if the baby drags it into his mouth, nothing bad will happen. The ingredients for the test are simple and can be found in every home. All you need is water, salt and flour. You can optionally add dye to the dough or decorate the finished product. It is important to remember that the colors will lighten slightly after heat treatment of the dough. Varnishing or sculpting with a more intensely colored material would be a solution. Dough rose.This option is very simple, and you can offer it to your baby. To prepare you will need:
- Working board;
- Rolling pin;
- Dough suitable for the design of flowers (in this case, pink and green);
- Cutting knife;
- Molds for biscuits. Round and heart.




The dough rose is ready.All that remains is to dry it in the air or in the oven. Clay flowers. Clay – This is a wonderful material for sculpting. It comes in several types. Natural clay is formed as a result of the destruction of rocks. It comes in white, red, green, blue and even black. And there is a material called polymer clay. It contains so-called plasticizers, which, under the influence of a temperature of 100-130°C, cause the clay to harden. Polymer clay is also called a self-hardening mass (like cold porcelain), which is very often used in making flowers. It can be multi-colored, transparent, with sparkles and even glowing in the dark. Yellow rose made of polymer clay. You can take the same tools and equipment as when modeling from plasticine or dough.
- Board for work;
- Tools for cutting;
- Rolling pin;
- Polymer clay is yellow.
Master class offered below in step by stepphoto, so simple that description in words is not required. You just need to look at the image carefully. At the same time, it is better to sculpt such a rose for children under the close attention of adults.There are a huge number of flowers in the world and there is one for every person. Let the kids sculpt with pleasure, depict real flowers and come up with fantasy flowers.