Modeling with children 1 - 3 years old. Ideas and templates for modeling with kids

Modeling is a great way to develop fine motor skills, perseverance, perception, imagination and intelligence. It enriches the baby’s sensory experience and helps in dealing with stress and aggression.

Therefore, it is important to regularly engage in this useful creative activity from an early age.

In this article I will talk about how to sculpt with children aged 1–3 years, about materials, techniques and techniques. You can also download templates for modeling lessons with your child.

How to sculpt with kids

Some useful tips for sculpting with kids:

• Start as early as possible. Is your baby almost a year old? - it's time to introduce him to dough or soft mass for modeling. Let him just pinch off pieces or make dents. This is very useful for the baby. In any case, much more useful than learning to “read from the cradle.”
• The younger the child, the softer the material for modeling should be. Start with salt dough or a special modeling compound such as Play Doh.
• Plasticine allows you to do things that cannot be done with dough or mass. Therefore, do not delay your acquaintance with this material. But for starters, also choose the softest one possible, for example, Beam Krokha (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).
• At first, classes can last 5–15 minutes, but over time the duration of the class can be increased.
• Prepare materials and tools for sculpting in advance. Remove everything unnecessary from the table.
• Come up with a plot for each lesson, play it out. This way you can keep your child interested in modeling.
• Repeat activities that your child especially liked. But don't forget about diversity.

Store your child's crafts in a special folder, and don't forget to show off your work to guests.

Also, for variety, I recommend using ready-made manuals for classes, which I will write about at the end of the article.

I find most of the ideas for modeling in Elena Yanushko’s book “Sculpting with Young Children” (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).

This manual contains a detailed description of the progress of each of the 153 lessons. This includes what you can say to your child to get him involved in a particular activity.

They are designed for children from 1 year old to at least 3 years old. They do not require complex preparation.

Junior group. Early childhood, nursery. Children 1-4 years old

Lesson summary for the second early age group on sculpting “Carrots” Lesson summary for sculpting “Carrots”

Goals: “Improve techniques for working with plasticine, consolidate the ability to form
a “sausage”
and connect two parts of plasticine of different colors, create a desire to sculpt, develop fine motor skills, generalize acquired knowledge about...

Summary of direct educational activities on modeling on the topic “Birds’ Nests” for young children

Goal: to consolidate basic ideas about birds and their young; consolidate familiar techniques and methods of modeling . Objectives: - Educational: continue to develop in children the desire to convey images of birds in sculpting ; teach children how to make a nest in a sculptural way: roll out...

Modeling with children 1 – 3 years old

What can a child do with plasticine anyway? Below I will talk about the basic techniques and methods of sculpting with children 1 - 3 years old.

At this age there is no question of complex crafts. But you can come up with a huge number of simple activities that will certainly captivate your baby.

You can download and print the basis for all types of crafts listed in the article.

So, while modeling, we teach the baby:

Divide plasticine . You can do this in the following ways:

• pinch off small pieces and feed them to the birds;
• tear off a large piece to feed a large animal;
• Twist the sausage to separate it for the two dogs.

Flatten with your finger, press with your palm. First you make the balls, then the baby himself.

Print, color, cut out or draw the base and have your child:

• make spots on a fly agaric, giraffe, and ladybug;
• put vitamins in a jar, sweets in a plate;
• turn on the lights at the traffic lights;
• attach wheels to a car or locomotive;
• make it snow;
• stick apples to an apple tree, berries to a rowan branch, petals to a flower, seeds to a watermelon, leaves to a tree, balls to a Christmas tree, eyes to a fish or other animal

The child can sculpt elements either in any order or in specific places.

Smear with fingers or palm. Draw a small picture of an animal and ask your child:

• hide the animal, make a den for the bear, etc., by smearing plasticine over a small drawing.

Roll out modeling clay or plasticine with a rolling pin.

Play Doh modeling kits come with embossed rolling pins. Kids love to roll out the mixture and see interesting prints on it.

Make prints with various objects. You can do this with whatever comes to hand. It is advisable to use modeling clay or soft plasticine.

Press various objects into plasticine.

For such activities, we prepare the base in advance - roll out a cake about 3 mm thick in the color we need (green for grass, blue for water, etc.). We offer the baby:

• plant mushrooms or mosaic flowers;
• push pasta in the shape of cars into the plasticine road, turtles into the sand, etc. Make rays for the sun from spaghetti, worms from curled pasta, lay out shells on the sand, then collect them in a bucket, which can be fashioned in advance from plasticine;
• make a path out of beans, make beads, plant potatoes, lay out letters and numbers (closer to 3 years);
• press seeds or buckwheat into a sunflower;
• use beads, buttons, sequins to decorate a plasticine base in the form of a butterfly, fish, Christmas tree, dress;
• Use matches to make a fence for a cow and thorns for a hedgehog.

Roll into balls , large and small. This is how you can make it from plasticine:

• pies, sweets, vitamins, apples, oranges, berries, eggs, buns, snowballs.

Roll out the sausage . When rolling out the sausages, we do:

• stripes for zebra, tiger, bug;
• stairs, fence, sleepers;
• rays of the sun;
• sausage, bananas, dryers, pretzels for the doll;
• worms, snake, snail.

Draw on plasticine in a stack . Roll out the plasticine and show your child how to draw stripes, circles, and patterns on it.

Cut with a plastic knife or scissors. Separate the plasticine by applying the ruler edgewise.

• let the child make a sausage and cut it into pieces, feeding you and the animals;
• Make cookies and geometric figures from a flat piece.

Scrape off the plasticine with a stack or ruler.

• Cover small images of animals and cars with plasticine. And invite your child to find out who is hiding there.

Use a mold for bas-reliefs . Play Doh modeling kits are ideal here, but I'll talk about them below.

Coloring with plasticine.

• Print out a coloring page for little ones or draw a simple picture. Invite your child to color it by smearing the plasticine with his finger.

The main thing is that the base is small, because the child will not have enough patience for a large craft.

Connect plasticine parts together . Simple crafts from plasticine:

• fungus, carrot, apple, tumbler, snowman, rattle, candy;
• beads, grapes, caterpillar made of plasticine balls.

String plasticine onto a wire, match or thin stick:

• caterpillar, beads;
• lollipops, cherries.

Make letters and numbers . Plasticine can be stuck to printed outlines of letters and numbers, or simply sculpted without outlines.

We do all this, of course, by coming up with an interesting plot and playing it out.

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)

Modeling from Play Doh

We got the Play Doh modeling kit (Labyrinth, My-shop) when Antoshka turned 2 years old. I should have bought it much earlier!

Modeling became my son’s favorite pastime for several months; he could sculpt 5 times a day!

We had a set called “Cookie Shop” (My-shop). It is ideal for kids.

Much later we bought the “Pizza” (My-shop), which is also for the little ones.

For children aged 1.5 - 2.5 years, it is better to buy simple Play Doh modeling kits, and older children will like all sorts of “Cake Factories”, “Mr. Nibbler”, etc.

Different sets contain different modeling accessories. These can be embossed rolling pins, cutting molds, a syringe, bas-relief shapes and much more. And, of course, the modeling mass itself.

This is one of the most useful purchases for any child.