Photos and master classes on modeling on the theme “Summer” for making DIY crafts for children.

Classes in modeling from various plastic materialsmaterials such as clay, plasticine, dough, can significantly help the development of children. By kneading the raw materials for modeling with their palms and fingers, children improve fine motor skills, speech, imagination, vocabulary and memory increase. Each such lesson is accompanied by a story about what exactly the crumbs will be modeling. And, as for any activity, a theme is needed for making crafts with your own hands. All children adore summer. You can walk outside for a long time, exploring the world around you. Look at blooming flowers, bugs, bees and much more. You can go to a lake, river or sea. And vegetables, fruits and berries ripen. Summer is a great theme for modeling lessons. You can invite children to mold a delicious summer strawberry on a plate. For this you will need:

• Working surface. The board or the table covered with an oilcloth will approach;
• Dough for molding. You can take it ready or do it at home.
• Cutting knife;
• Rolling pin;
• Toothpick;
• Water;
• Brush;
• Paints.

Strawberry made from dough on a plate.

Form a ball of dough.

Roll out a round cake from it. You can use a baking dish and cut a circle, which would be more accurate.

Roll the sausage out of the dough.

Lubricate the edges of the cake with water and put the sausage in a circle. Extra dough can be cut with a knife or pinched.

Roll a few balls.

Part of them flatten and shape the leaves with your fingers.

Lubricate the top of the sausage with water.

Decorate the plate with leaves and the remaining balls, as in the photo, or as the child's fantasy tells.

Roll 3 larger balls. And give them a shape of strawberry berries.

Toothpicks do grooves on them.

Roll out a small flat cake and cut a strawberry leaf on it, as shown in the photo.

Give them a shape with your fingers.

Lubricate with water and glue to berries.

Insert pieces of toothpick. It will be strawberry tails.

Fold the strawberries in a plate and dry the craft in the oven or in the air.

Color after drying with paints.

The strawberries are ready.Any kid will prefer tasty fruits to porridge and soup. And of course, he will gladly feed his favorite toy with an apricot or cherry. You can offer the child to mold them from plasticine. For this you will need:

• Working board;
• Plasticine of various colors;
• Rolling pin;
• Toothpick;
• Bones or petioles left from real cherries or apricots;
• Knife for cutting plasticine (the stack usually goes in the set).

Cherry made of plasticine.

Roll out of plasticine of the appropriate color 2 balls. It can be red, pink or burgundy. And maybe a child will like purple or any other color.

Attach it to the petiole.

From the green plasticine roll down the elongated drop from two sides. This is a blank for the sheet.

Flatten a drop and draw veins.

Combine the leaf with cherry and cherries.

The cherries are ready. Apricot from plasticine. It can be made from a piece of yellow plasticine.

Form a ball.

Give it an oval shape by rolling it a little like a “sausage”.

To cut in half.

In one half, make a groove and insert a bone into it.

To blind the halves.

The apricot is ready. Let the baby put the crafts on a plate and treat the toys.You can add a homemade salad to this. First, the child will mold a cucumber and a tomato, then cut them on a plate and have a feast. Plasticine cucumber.To create a cucumber you will need more effort and skill; adults can help very young children.

Roll the sausage light green. Edges round off.

At one end of the workpiece, put a little plasticine in a dark green color and smear it with stripes.

On the other end, smear a little white or yellow plasticine.

From a piece of the main color, roll the tail of a cucumber and attach.

Use a toothpick to make “pimples” on the cucumber.

The cucumber is ready. The tomato is made from plasticine.

Form a ball of any shade of red from plasticine.

Make a finger a hole.

Smear a little yellow plasticine in the groove.

From the cake of green plasticine, cut out the five-pointed leaf to make the tomato different from the apple. It can also be made of 5 small sausages.

Attach the leaf to the groove.

The tomato is ready.Now your little one can make a real summer breakfast for their toys from fruits and vegetables. A trip to the sea is one of the pleasant features of summer. After all, you can find so many interesting and unusual things on the shore. Surely, any kid has brought souvenirs from their travels, found on the beach. These can be shells, beautiful pebbles or pieces of glass, polished by water. And all these wonderful things will come in handy for creating your own crafts on a summer-sea theme. You can tell a curious kid about the animals that live in the sea, show what they look like and offer to mold a starfish or an octopus. In the process of making them, the kid will definitely learn that octopuses can change color and have 8 legs, and starfish only look like toys, but they also eat and can move, but very slowly. To create them, you will need:

• Working surface. A board or a table will do;
• Material for modeling various colors. It can be clay, dough or clay;
• Cutting knife;
• Images of an octopus and a starfish. It can be a photo of a real animal or a picture from a cartoon.

Octopus.

Roll the ball of the main color (in this case, purple).

Form it into an oval. It will be the body.

Roll 8 sausages of the main color. It will be legs.

Make 2 balls of white and 2 balls, a little less in size, blue. It will be eyes.

Roll a small sausage of pink color for the mouth.

Make a few balls of yellow and flatten them into a flat cake.

Connect the parts. Smooth the joints with your fingers.

The octopus is ready. Starfish.

Roll the ball out of the clay base color (in this case, red).

Roll the ball into a flat cake.

Cut a star or a stack with a star.

Pressing each ray, form along them a prominent groove.

Draw a funny face with an asterisk with a toothpick.

Garnish with balls of a different color. You can also use beads, foil or even buttons.

Now you can place the underwater inhabitantsnext to the bottom, decorated with shells and glass pieces, ground in water. Any surface will do for this - cardboard, a sheet of paper or even an ordinary small aquarium. It is important not to limit the imagination of children. And to help them in difficult moments. Then the interest in creativity will not disappear, and the baby will develop fully.

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