Helpers from the Internet
Before you start sculpting a bird, you need to talk about it and be sure to show illustrations so that the children have a sample before their eyes. Just for this purpose you can use a set of educational cards “Birds”, which can be purchased in the online store “OZON.RU”. 20 large colorful pictures will help children expand their vocabulary, learn the names of birds, and develop photographic memory.
What else is needed to sculpt birds? It is clear that the material. In kindergarten we usually sculpt from plasticine, but it happens that we use other materials. An excellent choice on the same “Ozone”: plasticine of different colors and different manufacturers, modeling mass, dough, kinetic sand and the necessary accessories you can choose without getting up from your chair, as they say. All materials are certified, tested, and recommended for use in preschool, school and home settings.
Let's move on to books. “UchMag” offers a teaching method “Modeling in kindergarten with children aged 5-7 years”, which will help educators draw up a summary of a lesson on modeling, and active parents - in solving the problem of what to do with a child on a day off or during the holidays. In principle, additional cards with illustrations are not needed; the manual contains beautiful pictures.
The online store “Kniga.ru” presents two manuals on our topic: and. I like both books, I think they are worth purchasing for a teacher’s library to add something new to their methodology for planning developmental activities with preschoolers. The first manual is interesting because it shows how you can synthesize several types of arts (folk toys, small sculpture, drawing, music, artistic expression) in modeling classes.
Good notes, I recommend them.
And the second manual is more universal and is devoted not only to modeling, but also to appliqué and drawing. All classes are meaningful and interconnected; this is a whole system for the aesthetic development of preschoolers.
How to make a crow step by step
To sculpt a bird you need to prepare:
- plasticine set;
- stack.
Step 1 . Prepare a black block of plasticine. You need 1 or more pieces, depending on the size of the craft you plan to make.
Step 2 . Sculpt the body of the bird. Make an elongated part - a pear. If there is not enough plasticine, then inside mask any other shade, damaged plasticine, or a rolled up piece of foil.
Step 3 . Glue a small black ball at the wide part of the pear and smear the plasticine at the joint. Connect the head and torso. The skeleton of the crow will be ready.
Step 4 . Move on to the flat parts: the tail and two wings. Make models of triangles and drops, also leave a little black plasticine for the crow's beak, because it is also black.
Step 5 . Glue 2 wing drops on the sides of the body, and begin to bring out small hangnails in a stack, thereby imitating feathers. If the plasticine is dense, then at this stage you can use small scissors; they can simply cut out such small corners, completely filling the surface of the wings.
Step 6 . Perform identical operations on both wings. After you do this, do not touch the top with your fingers so as not to press down the selected corners (feathers). Attach a tail that flares to the bottom at the back.
Step 7 . All that remains is to design the head. Turn the last small piece of plasticine into a beak. This will be a small cone, glue it in front and carefully bend it down. Glue 2 gray circles as eyes with pupils. Only these lighter spots will stand out against the otherwise dark background.
Step 8 . The bird should also have legs; make these parts from black and gray pieces. Glue small cones in wide parts to the body, and on the bottom - legs.
The crow figurine is ready.
If desired, you can carefully mix blue into black plasticine to make the plumage believable, with a beautiful tint. Everything is simple and clear.
Crane step by step - sculpting migratory birds in the senior group
We make a small mound from green plasticine. We stick a white and a red piece onto an oval of gray plasticine. Using a stack we show the bird's plumage. We attach two gray wings and a neck on top. We also show feathers. We glue on the eyes, beak and comb. We place the crane on one leg. For strength, the leg can be made from a skewer covered with plasticine. You can create a composition from different plastic plants around the bird.
Owl - sculpt with your own hands
Let's make a realistic owl step by step. We form the body of the owl and attach the head. We smooth out the transition between the head and body well. Add light brown circles and yellow eyes with black pupils. We glue the beak and eyebrows. From small pieces of black, white and brown material we sculpt plumage for the bird. We decorate the owl's wings in a similar way. Attach the embossed tail and small paws.
Swallow - modeling in the middle group with step-by-step instructions
Take a small ball for the swallow's head and attach it to a larger ball. Smooth out the neck well. We attach a white layer of plastic mass to the bird’s belly. We sculpt elongated wings and show the feathers in a stack. The tail will be slightly longer than the wings. Cut it in half almost to the base. Attach the wings and tail to the bird's body. We make pink paws, a yellow beak and white eyes. The migratory bird is ready.
