At the age of one and a half to two years, the baby can already be offered games with plasticine. Modeling perfectly develops fine motor skills and will help to acquaint the child with the world around him. There is now a lot of safe plasticine on the market that does not stick to surfaces, does not get hands dirty and has a very soft structure, which makes it ideal for the smallest and weakest handles.
Instructions
Step 1
The most important thing is not to rush the baby. At first, just give him a small piece of plasticine in his hands so that the child can study in detail hitherto unseen material.
Then show how to tear off small and large pieces that can be attached to each other or to different surfaces.
Step 2
Show how different colors are combined with each other, how pieces of different colors form an image. For example, draw a large ladybug on paper and, having made dots out of black plasticine, attach to the drawing in the appropriate places. By the way, in winter, you can decorate a drawn Christmas tree in the same way: give the baby red plasticine and let him tear off and attach several balls of different sizes to the drawing.
Step 3
Having mastered the technique of tearing pieces from the whole, show your child how to make a plasticine sausage, how to roll it between your palms. The sausage will easily turn into a ring or a caterpillar, the eyes of which can be made from already familiar small pieces.
Step 4
Then show how to make a plasticine ball. You can make a stack of eyes, a nose and a mouth - and here is a bun from a fairy tale in front of you.
Turn the balloon into a tortilla, basket, or hat. Combine with sausage - here it is, the fungus.
Step 5
Pay attention to the kid that the ball can be rolled in two ways: between the palms and on the table surface with one palm. If you have modeling clay on hand, invite your child to roll beads, which then string together on a string or elastic band.
Step 6
Teach your toddler how to cut a plasticine sausage with a plasticine stack. Believe me, there is no more exciting activity. Show how the cut pieces turn into a ball, then into a sausage, then into a cake.
It is very easy to make bright applications from plasticine, in which various materials at hand are combined: large cereals, pebbles, beads and even curly pasta! However, you should not leave your baby alone with plasticine, the desire to taste it can overshadow curiosity and desire to create.
