
Types of modeling of plasticine and crafts, created by own hands, children age 5 years.
Sculpting is a great opportunity forentertainment and development of children. Very small and older children enjoy making crafts from plastic and soft dough, plasticine or clay. This article will tell you how and what you can mold with a child aged 5. You should do modeling with children aged 5 1-2 times a week. The duration of the lesson is 20-25 minutes. An approximate lesson plan includes several stages: 1. Arouse interest and positive emotions. You can use poems, riddles and songs. Remember a situation seen earlier or call for help a character from a cartoon or a fairy tale who needs the help of the kids; 2. You need to start doing the work with a detailed analysis of the object that the children will mold. Give advice and listen to the children's suggestions for creating the craft. 3. In the process of work, adults can praise a good start or direct in the right direction those children who need help; 4. The lesson ends with an examination of the finished work. The assessment of the work should not be negative. The kids should be happy with the result. They will learn to evaluate the craft made by their own hands and the crafts of other children. To notice new, previously unknown, solutions to the problem. To understand the similarity with the given model. The techniques used in classes with children of 5 years old are divided into:
- Bas-relief – the image protrudes less than half above the main surface (coin or medal).
- High relief – some fragments protrude completely above the general plane.
- Counter-relief – the image is recessed into the main surface.
Children aged 5-6 years have already mastered many techniques used in modeling.
- • They can roll balls and sausages using their palms or a board.
- • They can flatten them with their fingers and palms.
- • Pinch pieces and pull parts out of a whole block of plasticine.
- • Make an indentation with your thumb by pressing.
- • Connect individual parts into a whole composition and smooth out the joints.
- • Decorate your craft with additional materials. This could be a piece of foil or fabric, a button, tree leaves, a nut shell, a pine cone, and much more.
- • At this age, children can easily mix plasticine of different colors to obtain the desired shade.
Several options for modeling activities with five-year-oldskids. It is necessary to teach children to sculpt from life. You can offer to make vegetables or fruits of different sizes and complex shapes. The little ones will definitely need to use their fingers to get indentations or elongated shapes of this or that object. Learn to choose the right color and maintain proportions. Carrot. For the lesson you will need:
- Green and orange, yellow and brown clay of average softness;
- Toothpick;
- Substrate-substrate;
- Knife for cutting plasticine;
- Water;
- Wet rag.
To create a carrot you need:

The carrot is ready. Banana. To create a banana you need:

The bunch of bananas is ready.