Plasticineography for children: practical advice for teachers and parents

Drawing with plasticine: basic techniques

A number of techniques are already known to children, because drawing with plasticine is preceded by learning to sculpt.

Kids already know how to:

• roll up;
• roll out;
• flatten;
• pull out;
• give the desired shape to a piece of plasticine.

What skills do children acquire when learning plasticineography?

To draw with plasticine, children will have to learn:

• pinch off;
• smear;
• press in;
• smooth;
• mix colors;
• add texture using stacks.

There are many ways to create an image:

1. Direct . Different colors of plasticine are used. The most popular patterns are vegetables, leaves, mushrooms, and fish. Direct plasticineography is the first acquaintance with unusual drawing. Large and simple shapes are used, which are easy for even kids to work with.

2. Stained glass (reverse) . A drawing is applied to the plexiglass plate with a marker. The resulting contour is filled with plasticine. Reverse plasticineography is very effective. Very often, sour cream lids are used as a base.

3. Mosaic. The figure or design is created with multi-colored plasticine balls. Mosaic plasticineography is very simple. The secret to beautiful drawings is a good selection of colors and accuracy. An example of such a technique is the master class “Cockerel Fish”, the body of which is lined with mosaics.

4. Contour. This method is practiced by older children. The contour is filled with plasticine flagella, which are squeezed out using a syringe. The material must be heated. For this purpose, use either a microwave or hot water. A plasticine sausage is placed in a syringe without a needle and heated along with it.

5. Multi-layered. The material is applied with multi-colored strokes. The painting is created by layering. The result is a three-dimensional image. Like, for example, in a plasticine Easter card.

6. Textured. The convexity of the image varies. Children learn to create high reliefs, bas-reliefs and counter-reliefs. Textured plasticineography is one of the most difficult types, which is why it is taught to children in preparatory groups. Look how we made a fairy tale character - the Gruffalo.

7. Modular. They perform the elements separately using different techniques, and then build a single composition from them. For example, you can create a relief image from flagella, balls and sausages.

Using this technique you can create a wonderful underwater world.

The description is just an example; everyone will have their own fantasy underwater kingdom. See detailed instructions on how to make an underwater world from plasticine here.

To make corals and algae, you can mix colors to achieve beautiful tints. For example, blue, violet, blue, light green and dark green shades are suitable for making underwater plants. Corals and shells are sculpted from pink, yellow, and white plasticine.

When all the parts are ready, they are attached to a painted sheet of paper.

The craft helps you remember what the inhabitants of the underwater world look like and gives you an idea of ​​scale. It uses figures of different shapes, so children will have to remember all the plasticineography techniques they have learned.

When creating a three-dimensional image, children are faced with the concept of measure. If you overload the picture with details, the whole effect will disappear. Instead of a bright and mysterious underwater world penetrated by the sun's rays, you will get a pile of plasticine figures.

The image contains many small and large details, so it will take a lot of patience and perseverance to reproduce all the inhabitants of the seabed.

This work is great for group work in a kindergarten group. Children learn the skills of teamwork, distribution of responsibilities, mutual assistance, and they will achieve excellent results!

Templates for plasticineography

Templates must be appropriate for the age of the students. If in the younger group preference is given to simple forms, then in the older groups complex images are created, with many elements, with different relief.

The templates are great for kids to get creative with. At the first stage, the contour is simply filled with plasticine. You can build the work differently and use a template on a sheet already covered with plasticine. A butterfly with a flower is made using this technique.

For this craft, leftover plasticine or old crafts are suitable, because you will need beautiful multi-colored tints.

Small pieces of plasticine need to be smeared on paper, trying to make as thin a layer as possible. Print a template that includes the butterfly outline, stem, three leaves, flower core and petals.

Cut out the printed parts from a plasticine-coated sheet. On white paper, use colored felt-tip pens or wax crayons to draw the earth with strokes. Glue the cut out colorful parts. Sculpt the body of a butterfly from plasticine and create a texture on it using a stack. Using a felt-tip pen, draw antennae for the butterfly and make plasticine eyes.

Pupils of the younger group can also cope with this craft. She teaches how to work with a template and trains the skill of smearing plasticine in an even, thin layer. Cutting out parts from a sheet covered with a layer of plasticine requires care and should not be rushed.

The “recycled” use of plasticine shows that opportunities for creativity can be found in already used objects and seemingly unnecessary items.

Plasticineography project in the junior group “We sculpt, we create, we draw.”

Plasticineography project in the junior group “We sculpt, we create, we draw.”

Project type:

creative-cognitive, informational

By composition of participants:

frontal

Duration:

long-term

The project is intended

for children from three years old.

Relevance of the topic:

The target guidelines of the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education indicate that a child at a young age should confidently use a spoon, pencil, and comb. In our group, some children with poorly developed manual motor skills awkwardly hold a spoon and cannot fasten buttons on their own. During classes, they find it difficult to roll out a piece of plasticine, they do not hold a brush and a pencil skillfully, so they do not like to draw and sculpt, assuming a negative result in advance - this greatly affects the child’s emotional state and self-esteem.

In connection with the existing problem, I decided to create a set of classes on plasticineography and combine them into a long-term project to develop fine motor skills in children’s hands.

Plasticineography:

“graphy” - create, depict.

“plasticine” is a material with the help of which the plan is carried out.

Plasticineography refers to non-traditional artistic techniques; it involves drawing with plasticine on cardboard or any other dense base. The background and characters are depicted not by drawing, but by sculpting, while objects can be more or less convex, in relief.

Modeling always attracts kids. And plasticineography is doubly interesting, because the child does not even suspect that plasticine can be drawn.

Working with plasticine, the process of modeling itself, helps the child express emotions, his vision of the world around him and his attitude towards it, form aesthetic taste, develop flexibility, coordination, fine motor skills of the fingers (which in turn contributes to speech development). The baby gradually and imperceptibly masters the art of planning and learns to always complete the work.

Plasticine also enriches the sensory experience of the child, who vividly perceives plasticity, shape and weight. When creating an image using plasticineography, the child covers the surface of the sheet with plasticine, rolls and rolls out various shapes, which makes the hand more obedient. It’s safe to say that plasticineography prepares a child’s hand for school writing.

Plasticineography also develops children's creativity (primarily visual) - after all, with the help of this technique you can create an original, unique image with vivid expressiveness.

Children in early preschool age are already quite familiar with plasticine: they roll out sausages and balls, flatten them into “pancakes,” pull out plasticine, and mold the details of the image with each other. When getting acquainted with plasticineography for children 3-4 years old, it is extremely important to master new skills, namely: spreading plasticine in a thin layer over the base and “smear”.

Thus, plasticineography is a universal method for developing aesthetic taste, fine motor skills of the fingers, and creative abilities of preschoolers of any age.

The main material is plasticine, and the main tool in plasticineography is the hand (or rather, both hands), therefore, the level of skill depends on the mastery of one’s own hands. This technique is good because it is accessible to children of primary preschool age, it allows you to quickly achieve the desired result and introduces a certain novelty into children’s creativity, making it more exciting and interesting, which is very important for working with children.

One of the undoubted advantages of plasticineography classes with children of primary preschool age is the integration of subject areas of knowledge. The activity of plasticineography allows you to integrate various educational spheres. The topics of the classes are closely intertwined with the lives of children, with the activities that they carry out in other classes (to become familiar with the surrounding world and nature, develop speech, etc.).

Modern developmental technologies and educational programs focus on building a special type of interaction between adults and children, where the problem of creating conditions for the development of each child, taking into account his characteristics, abilities and individual interests, comes to the fore. In order to devote more time to the developed project, I decided to teach plasticineography classes in my group in the afternoon, which provide an opportunity for the comprehensive development of the child.

Objective of the project :

Development of fine motor skills of hands and fingers in children of primary preschool age using artistic and creative activities in plasticineography.

Project objectives:

• To teach to convey the simplest image of objects, phenomena of the surrounding world through plasticineography, to develop the visual activity of children;
• Master the basic techniques of plasticineography (pressing, smearing, pinching, indentation);
• Develop fine motor skills.
• To develop the ability to accept a task, listen and hear the teacher’s speech, act according to the model, and then according to verbal instructions;
• Strengthen the ability to examine various objects (objects) using visual and tactile sensations to enrich and clarify the perception of their shape, proportion, color;
• Cultivate perseverance, accuracy, and the desire to finish what you start.

Project structure.

Several stages of developing plasticineography skills and tasks for each of them.

The expected result in the development of integrative qualities is that by the end of the project children:

* Implement cognitive activity.

All selected material for classes with children has a practical orientation, relies as much as possible on their life experience, helps to highlight the essence of the characteristics of the objects and phenomena being studied, and activates images and ideas stored in long-term memory. They allow him to clarify the knowledge he has already acquired, expand it, and apply the first versions of generalization.

* Enrich your vocabulary in an interesting playful way.

In the process of playing out the plot and performing practical actions with plasticine, there is a continuous conversation with the children. Such a playful organization of children’s activities stimulates their speech activity, causes speech imitation, the formation and activation of a vocabulary, and the child’s understanding of the speech of others.

* Get acquainted with works of art -

poems, nursery rhymes, finger games.

* Children develop their first elementary mathematical concepts

about the account, size, value.

* Develop sensory standards.

Sensory development occupies one of the central places in working with children in plasticineography. In the younger group, general sensory abilities develop: color, shape, size.

* But the main importance of plasticineography classes is that at the end of the training -

The child develops manual skill, strengthens hand strength, movements of both hands become more coordinated, and finger movements are differentiated. This is facilitated by good muscle load on the fingers. Children develop pincer grasping, i.e., grasping a small object with two fingers or a pinch; they are also able to independently carry out movements in all its qualities: strength, duration, direction, etc.

Project implementation:

First of all, a series of trial classes “Magic Plasticine” were conducted, in which children became acquainted with plasticine, with some techniques for its use: rolling, bending, pinching, flattening, pulling parts from the general shape through playful interaction with the material and the fairy-tale hero.

Based on these results, a project has been compiled in which the learning of the material is carried out in stages, from simple to complex.

At the first lessons, children were introduced to plasticineography as a method of drawing with plasticine, its features, tools, and simple technological techniques. They were given the opportunity to play with plasticine: touch, smell, mash, and express their impressions of the plasticine.

Calendar-thematic lesson plan

on plasticineography with

children of the younger group

(2017 – 2022 academic year)