The use of sculpting for the development of children's motor skills is widely known. During such classes, the realism of the finished figures fades into the background, giving way to the importance of the process itself. If you want to get additional benefits from sculpting, try copying the appearance of the animals with your child, using photographs as a reference. For starters, you can sculpt a hare.
Instructions
Step 1
Take the gray plasticine. If you don't have one at hand, mix the base colors - white and black. Knead them together until the shade is even. Small stains, color irregularities in this case will look appropriate.
Step 2
Sculpt the hare's torso. Roll a large ball, and then pull it out, turning it into an oval. Take a piece of plasticine, three times smaller than the body. Roll a ball out of it. Then give it an egg-shaped shape - this is the head of a hare - its muzzle is somewhat narrower than the back of the head.
Step 3
Make hare ears. They should be one and a half times longer than the head. In this case, the shape of the ears depends on the breed of the hare. The most familiar to our eye has become a smoothly expanding upward shape. Lift the edges of the ears along the perimeter up, and press the inner part, on the contrary, creating a natural shape.
Step 4
Make the front legs of the hare in the form of rather thin cylinders. Their lower part resembles a cat's paws. The hare's hind legs are about one and a half times longer than the front legs, but this difference will cease to be noticeable when you bend them into a characteristic position. Bend your paws about 45 degrees in the middle. Then press the lower part against the surface of the table to form the foot on which the animal rests.
Step 5
Sculpt the hare's tail into a petal shape. Its length only slightly falls short of the length of the animal's head. Roll up two small balls of black or green color and stick them on the hare's face where it should have eyes. Mark the nose with a black spot. Roll out thin slices of light pink color and place them on the inside of the ears. To imitate the texture of the fur, use a wooden toothpick to draw short strokes all over the hare's body.
Step 6
If you want your craft to last for many months or even years, make a hare out of salt dough, clay, or plastic. The manufacturing process will be the same as in the case of plasticine, but the result will need to be fixed with heat treatment.
