
Photos and master classes on modeling on the theme "Summer" for making hand-made articles by children themselves.
Sticking lessons from various plasticmaterials such as clay, plasticine, dough, can greatly help the development of babies. Razminyaya raw materials for molding palms and fingers, kids improve fine motor skills, speech, imagination, increasing vocabulary and memory. Each such lesson is accompanied by a story about what exactly they will sculpt crumbs. And, as for any lesson, a theme is needed to make hand-made articles. All the kids adore summer time. You can walk for a long time on the street, studying the world around you. Look at flowering flowers, beetles, bees and much more. You can go to the lake, river or sea. And ripen vegetables, fruits and berries. Summer is perfect, as a topic for classes on modeling. It is possible to offer to children to blind a summer tasty strawberry on a plate. To do 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 dough on a plate.










The strawberry is ready. Any baby will prefer porridge and soup tasty fruit. And of course he will gladly give apricot or cherry a favorite toy. You can offer the child to blind them out of plasticine. To do 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 from plasticine.


Cherries are ready. Apricot from plasticine. It can be made from a piece of plasticine yellow.
Apricot is ready. Let the kid put some handicrafts in a plate and treat the toys. To this you can add a self-prepared salad. First the child will blind a cucumber and a tomato, and then cut them on a plate and arrange a feast. Cucumber from plasticine.
To create a cucumber will need more effort and skill, very young children can help adults.


The cucumber is ready. Tomato from plasticine.



The tomato is ready. Now the kid can arrange a real summer breakfast for his toys of fruits and vegetables. A trip to the sea is one of the pleasant features of summer. After all, on the shore you can find so many interesting and unusual things. For sure, any kid brought with him from travel souvenirs found on the beach. It can be seashells, beautiful pebbles or pieces of glass, turned over with water. And all these wonderful things will be useful for creating hand-made crafts on the summer-marine theme. A curious toddler can be told about animals that live in the sea, to show how they look and suggest to make a starlet or an octopus. In the process of making them, the kid always learns that the octopuses can change color and have 8 legs, and the starlets of the sea only look like toy, 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.
The octopus is ready. Sea star.
Now you can arrange underwater inhabitantsnext to the bottom, decorated with seashells and glass, turned in the water. To do this, any surface - cardboard, a piece of paper or even an ordinary small aquarium - is suitable. It is important not to limit the imagination of children. And help them in difficult moments. Then interest in creativity will not disappear, and the crumb will develop fully.