Every child should definitely develop fine motor skills. Experts consider plasticine modeling an incredibly exciting and convenient method. Kids love to sculpt everything: koloboks, ballerinas, soldiers, weapons. Today it has become quite fashionable to create computer heroes with your own hands. Many parents are interested in how to make Minecraft from plasticine.
Modeling crafts from Minecraft plasticine will be a wonderful hobby for all family members. After all, fans of computer games will be able with my own hands create your favorite minecraft heroes.
Cute square minecraft shapes will help kids:
- Get to know the cartoon characters and the game.
- Master the skills of working with plasticine and tools.
Modeling is both entertainment and an incredibly useful lesson for a child. The process develops fine motor skills and coordination of movements. In addition, while playing, the baby learns shapes, colors, and masters proportions.
To create your favorite Minecraft characters, you will need:
- Plasticine of different colors.
- A special knife for cutting material or a metal ruler.
- Board.
- Thick plastic or cardboard on which tape should be applied. This will protect the surface from sticking.
- Several toothpicks for the smallest jobs.
It is better to start sculpting from simple plasticine, since the craft can be easily corrected or improved. As soon as your baby’s hands get used to working with light material, you can use a self-hardening mass. Crafts made from such material will be more durable and comfortable to play.
To create Steve you will need plasticine blue color. Three squares should be molded from this plasticine: one large and two small. The large square will serve as the body, the small shapes will serve as the shoulders. Then they make a square block of purple color and carefully separate it with a knife to make trousers. The bottom of the trousers is complemented with small cubes - these are shoes. The hero's head and arms are made from brown material. A small black rectangle will act as hair on the character's head. Using a toothpick on the head, Steve's mouth and eyes appear. The second Minecraft figurine is created in a similar way - the green Creeper.
Crafts from plasticine
Boys need an arsenal of weapons in games different models and calibers similar to those used by heroes in computer games or movies. It takes a long time to find a gun that fits the dimensions you want. The solution to the problem is simple: make a weapon out of plasticine yourself.
It is incredibly easy to create an arsenal of weapons from such a malleable material as plasticine. You can start sculpting with simple, easy crafts. It just takes a little time and perseverance. You just have to show your child once how to make a weapon out of plasticine. In the future, the child will be able to independently create any model of the machine.
Anti-tank gun
Before you start creating a weapon from plasticine or other material, you should carefully study the photo of the weapon. Then learn how to make a pistol or other weapon from plasticine and only then carry it out step by step, strictly following the advice. As a result, you can get a beautiful craft.
To make an anti-tank gun, perform the following steps:
This craft will be relevant for Victory Day. It will be a wonderful gift on February 23rd.
Creation of a manual machine
Every boy in the game needs a weapon in order to be a winner in battles over the enemy. The child will be able to mold the machine on his own. And of different sizes. For work, you can use leftover plasticine of dark colors. Roll a black piece of material into an oblong cylinder. This part will serve as the body of the small arms. Using a knife, the part must be processed so that it looks like a block.
Each side of the case is equipped with stripes, buttons and a shutter. A brown handle is created and attached to the body. For strength, a piece of a match is used. The opposite side of the body is equipped with a black butt of the machine gun, made in the form of a curved semi-arc. Don't forget about such a detail as the trigger. A barrel is sculpted from brown material.
In order to hold better, the barrel is placed on a piece of a match and secured to the body. The craft is ready, it should be sent to a cool place to harden.
Sculpting military equipment from plasticine is incredibly exciting. Boys are fans of menacing tanks and heavy guns.
If we are talking about girls, then they will be happy to make such a craft for their dad or grandfather.
It’s not difficult to make a plasticine tank with your own hands, all children know it distinctive features: long barrel, no windows in the cockpit and massive tracks as a means of transportation.
Allows you to feel like the creator of fascinating designs. Young creators will be interested in admiring their masterpiece themselves, and the praise of others will encourage them to new achievements and add enthusiasm.
How to make a tank from plasticine - step by step with photos:
1. The most rational way to create a believable tank is to use brown, black and green colors of plasticine from the kit. These shades can be used separately and mixed with each other. If a child wants to create a brighter toy, you should not convince him otherwise, because he should be interested in doing this type of creativity. Also, to create relief details, stock up on a triangular spatula.
2. Mix brown and a little black material, but not completely, you should get a light marble effect. Divide the resulting piece into two parts, form them into long, flat pieces.
3. Make 8 wheels from black plasticine. Try to keep them almost the same size.
4. Make dents on one side of each wheel with the corner of a spatula.
5. Lay out 4 wheels in a row and wrap them in a long, flat piece of dark brown plasticine. It should look like a caterpillar. on her outside make many longitudinal cuts with a spatula to get a realistic relief. Do the same with the remaining wheels.
6. Make the platform of the tank from a matchbox, covering it with brown plasticine on top. Place tracks with wheels on both sides.
7. Place the cabin on the platform. This could be an oval piece made of brown plasticine.
8. Add the muzzle to the center section of the cockpit and various small parts. Cover a small pencil with brown plasticine and attach it to the craft. Don't forget about the round hatch.
9. If desired, the tank can be decorated with a red star or native flag.
That's all, now you know how to make a plasticine tank for a game or for dad as a gift on February 23rd.
Parents interested in creative development their child cannot underestimate the importance of modeling, because this fascinating process stimulates the development of aesthetic taste, imagination, and also trains fine motor skills and, as a result, has a beneficial effect on the child’s thinking. In addition, it will be useful for active, excitable children to engage in modeling, since this process has a beneficial effect on the state of the nervous system as a whole.
But it’s easy to say, harder to implement. Most often, parents limit themselves to buying plasticine and handing it to their child, and the consequences of such experiments do not impress them - a lump of sticky mass of an incomprehensible color and greasy stains on the floor and furniture. But this outcome does not indicate that the child is not yet mature enough to work with this material, but that it is better to start mastering modeling together with adults.
In order to create the necessary motivation for your child, you can choose crafts that will suit his interests. Thus, boys are most often attracted to the themes of transport, technology, and war, so a tank would be an excellent choice for a young lover of plasticine modeling.
We present to your attention step by step instructions How to make a tank from plasticine. A child from 2.5 years old can cope with this task.
We will need:
- plasticine of different colors. The color of the tank body is not important; let the child choose the one he likes best - blue, green, khaki, gray. We will also need black and red plasticine;
- plastic knife.
Making crafts
An older child will be interested in making more complex crafts from plasticine, more detailed tanks. Before you start sculpting a tank from plasticine, you should take a closer look at its structure, study models, drawings and pictures. We offer another master class describing how to fashion a tank from plasticine.
Many boys love to play war games, which involve weapons. Often the figures that children play with are of different sizes, so choosing the appropriate size and type of weapon is not always possible. But thanks to plasticine, this problem is easy to solve. We invite you to familiarize yourself with our photo instructions, in which we will tell you step by step how to make a cannon with your own hands. In the future, having understood the modeling technique, the child, if necessary, will be able to independently create from a pliable mass any models of both guns for a specific game and figures. In addition, a child can present such a craft as a gift to his dad or grandfather on February 23rd.
So, let's get everything ready first. necessary tools and materials for sculpting a cannon:
- plasticine blocks of any shade;
- stacks and blades for forming parts;
- a board for rolling out the mass;
- napkins.
How to make a cannon from plasticine
Step 1. First, let's fashion a cannon barrel from any piece of plasticine you like. We will use a brown tone of the mass. Roll the soft mass into a sausage. We make one end of the workpiece slightly thinner than the other. 
Step 2. Next, decorate the barrel with thin strands gray. After attaching the parts, lightly roll them out on a board so that the bundles acquire a flat shape. Then we draw some simple texture on the gray coils. 
Step 3. We form a platform from a small piece of gray plasticine. First, we give a piece of mass a sausage shape, and then bend its ends, as shown in the photo. We fix the gun barrel on the molded platform. We press the tip of the cannon a little inward with a stack of bulge. 
Step 4. Create a pair of large wheels from dark gray or black plasticine. Using the tip of the stacks, we press the notches on the outside of the wheels. Then we glue the blanks to the base of the craft. 
In Soviet times, almost all boys preferred to play with plastic or tin soldiers, tanks, guns and other domestically produced military units. But today, imported goods predominate on sale, and sometimes young military leaders are not in the mood for them. Remembering their childhood, parents can suggest creating an artillery piece from plasticine, especially since it will be doubly pleasant to play with such an object, since the craft will be made with your own hands.
In this lesson we will tell you how to make a cannon from plasticine. Such a product will also be in demand on the eve of February 23, because all children at school are given the task of creating a gift for dad and grandfather.
1. You should not limit your child when choosing shades for modeling a cannon from plasticine. Even if he wants to make a colorful craft, do not dissuade him. So, you can choose bright or dark colors for work.
2. Choose your favorite color for sculpting the barrel. In this case, it is an orange block. Knead the plasticine and roll it into a ball.
3. Place the workpiece on a hard surface protected with cellophane, press it with your palm and begin to make oscillatory movements, pressing on the plasticine. You need to get a sausage, one side of which will be slightly wider than the other.
4. Insert a pencil or pen into the wider part to create a deep hole.
5. Elevate appearance the muzzle had transverse stripes.
6. To sculpt the platform, knead a little brown plasticine, roll it into a sausage, then press it with your fingers to a flat surface and bend it as shown in the photo.
7. Place the finished barrel on the base.
8. Roll two large black wheels and score the circle with a triangular spatula.
9. Attach the wheels to the craft.
10. Our cannon is ready, all that remains is to add a few cannonballs in the form of gray plasticine balls to complete the composition.
The final look of the craft. Photo 1.
The final look of the craft. Photo 2.
The final look of the craft. Photo 3.
We hope the entire male half of the family will like this souvenir. Experiment with the size and color of the parts to create an arsenal of heavy weapons. For interesting game In a war game, we recommend that you make a believable origami tank from green paper.
