- What you need for New Year's plasticine crafts
- Plasticine Christmas Trees
- Santa Claus
- Building a Snowman
- Gingerbread made of plasticine
- Christmas balls
- Crafts from plasticine on cardboard for the little ones
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Magical winter time is a great time for creativity! To make the New Year 2023 memorable, bring joy, fun and laughter to the house, you can make New Year's crafts from plasticine with your children. This is a wonderful malleable, bright material. And if you don't like the result, you can safely take it apart and do it again!
In this New Year's article:
- craft supplies;
- Christmas trees - New Year's beauties;
- Santa Claus is a symbol of the holiday;
- snowmen - round winter characters;
- gingerbread men;
- christmas balls;
- cardboard crafts for the little ones.
What you need for New Year's plasticine crafts
So, in order to create plasticine miracles, we need:
- plasticine itself;
- stacks are special plastic knives. In the box with the material, there is usually one already, you can also purchase an additional set of stacks. With their help, figures are cut out, interesting reliefs and prints are made;
- plastic rolling pin;
- molds. If there are no special molds, you can take small recesses for baking;
- modeling board or oilcloth ontable.
By the way, please note that for New Year's crafts, you can use not only the usual mass for modeling. Manufacturers offer a huge range of material for children:
- wax plasticine - very soft, pliable, suitable for the smallest creators;
- light, or airy plasticine - crafts from it freeze when left in the air. Children's crafts can then be used as Christmas tree toys, souvenirs, interior decorations;
- balloon - consists of small foam balls. New Year's crafts will turn out to be unusual and interesting.
A little imagination and patience, and amazing Christmas crafts will decorate your home!
Plasticine Christmas Trees
Let's start with a simple and beautiful version of the Christmas tree. Roll a long rope from green plasticine, then twist it up in a spiral. As decorations, you can mold balls from colored mass, or you can use beads, pompoms, even sugar sprinkles for the cake. Fancy decorations can be made by cutting colored drinking straws into tiny rings.
Another way to make a Christmas tree is to build a green cone (pyramid) first. Next, you need imagination.
- You can make prints with the tip of the stack.
- You can scratch the "needles" on the Christmas tree. An empty refill from a ballpoint pen is perfect for these purposes.
- Cut out individualneedle elements and attach them to the pyramid.
- Make notches with the tips of scissors.
- Make branches from strips and attach them to our Christmas tree.
Here are some more cool DIY Christmas tree ideas (from different materials).
Santa Claus
To make a figurine of the main New Year's wizard - Santa Claus, you can use the step-by-step photo instruction. There are simpler options - for small children. It is not a shame to send a complex craft made of many small details to a competition in a school or kindergarten.
The simplest idea is to make a red cone shape. A face is attached to it, then a white beard and a fur trim.
Advice! If your sculpting kit doesn't have a flesh color, you can make your own. Thoroughly mix the white and orange mass in your hands in a ratio of 5:1.
Here are other ideas on how to make Santa Claus out of paper.
Building a Snowman
What is winter without snowfun?! As a New Year's plasticine craft, make a cute snowman with your children. The main thing is not to skimp on decorations!
The snowman itself is easy to make: carefully fasten two or three white balls together. Handles can be added.
To make a bright striped scarf, roll up some colored flagella, place them next to each other on a plank and lightly roll them with a rolling pin. From the resulting "rug" cut a long rectangle. For a fringe at the ends of the scarf, make shallow notches with a stack.
A snowman can have a cone hat on his head. A solid cylinder can be made by combining a short thick sausage and a flat circle (cake) from black mass.
Snowman decorations can be made from beads, small plastic buttons, ribbons. If you make figures from a solidifying air mass, they can be additionally painted. Having threaded a rope, such New Year's plasticine crafts can be hung on a Christmas tree.
Gingerbread made of plasticine
Gingerbread men, any other figures can be cut out with cookie cutters. The main thing is to use the right colors. And explain to children that you can’t eat such toys, even though they look like real ones.
Important! Make sure that children do not pull plasticine into their mouths. Modern materials have a harmless composition, but they are not suitable for food.
And if you suddenly decide to cook real gingerbread with your children, then we also have such a recipe.
Christmas balls
If you want to make Christmas balls to decorate the Christmas tree, take special foam blanks. They are sold in art supply stores. Such a ball is easy to coat with a thin layer of plastic mass and decorate for every taste.
Decorations on balls can be laid out from thin flagella, cut out elements - snowflakes, spruce twigs, petals, circles.
Any small decorations - beads, buttons, beads, sequins, sparkles will perfectly stick to the plasticine layer.
By the way! An even flagellum from the modeling mass can be obtained by squeezing it out of a large syringe without a needle. The mass should be heated in the hands or on the battery to give it greater plasticity.
Crafts from plasticine on cardboard for the little ones
With the smallest children, you can make pictures according to the template. This is a great idea for winter evenings. To do this, draw the outline of the object on the cardboard. It is better to use simple geometric shapes: triangular Christmas trees, square gifts, round balls.
As a basis for children's creativity, plastic lids from jars, such as yogurt or mayonnaise, are suitable.
Or you can cut out a silhouette from thick cardboard andfill it as you wish.
The background is done with fingers. It is necessary to smear small pieces of plasticine in an even layer, after thoroughly kneading it and warming it up in your hands. The main elements of the picture can be made more convex, from a thick layer of mass. For relief, use a stack. You can also make prints with the body of a ballpoint pen. For children, this is a great way to practice fine motor skills.
A big Christmas painting for home decoration can be done by the whole family.
Postcards-pictures made of plasticine on cardboard look very impressive. Such a work of art can be presented to grandparents, who will certainly appreciate the creativity of their grandchildren!
New Year's plasticine crafts - an opportunity to remember your childhood and have fun with your own children. Good luck in your work!