Playing with plasticine, children significantly develop fine motor skills, tactile skills and imagination. Therefore, in addition to the basic techniques of practicing plasticine (indentation, pinching, twisting, flattening), it is recommended to introduce a number of new games to maintain interest in the baby.
Purchased plasticine can be quite dangerous for children, and not always kids can cope with it because of too hard consistency. Therefore, before starting the games, you should prepare a homemade plasticine.
Homemade Plasticine Recipe
Mix:
- 2.5 cups flour;
- 2.2 cups of salt;
- 1.5 tablespoons of citric acid;
- 5 tablespoons of olive oil.
If necessary, water can be added to achieve the desired consistency. The result should be a kind of dough that does not stick to your hands.
Divide the dough into pieces and add food coloring to each for a bright color. Thus, the dough will be an ideal replacement for purchased plasticine.
Modeling for the smallest
Plasticine games give kids new sensory impressions and help to expand their understanding of the world around them. The seemingly simple games for the child are a real developmental activity.
Stamp
Show your child how to make intricate patterns on clay. To do this, you can use molds for sand, which must be pressed into the dough, leaving an imprint. Also suitable: a pen, a toy fork and a knife, felt-tip pens, a ball with spikes, a child’s favorite machine, leaving a mark on the wheels.
The form
Cookie cutters are useful here. First, the baby must flatten the dough, and then press the mold into it to cut out the figure. Kids really like this process.
Fork and knife
Games with a toy fork and knife are very interesting for kids. A child can twist plasticine into sausages, cut with a knife and chop on a fork.
Decoration
Another option for games is decoration. For the base, you can take the same extruded forms. Then the baby can twist, roll into lumps, cut into other elements from plasticine, which then will be used as decoration molds.
In this case, the main action is to push additional elements into the finished form.
Indentation
As a separate kind of game, indentation is the most creative. In the process, you can use a variety of objects, ranging from beads to pasta.
For older children, this game becomes more difficult. For example, ask them to mold a hedgehog from plasticine, and from pasta you can make needles.
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