How to mold an owl from plasticine: the main steps

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Children's creativity plays a big role in a child's development. Crafts made with your own hands develop imagination, taste, observation, coordination, eye. Classes with plasticine strengthen the fingers, they receive a massage, fine motor skills develop. Being carried away by the process, the child receives psychophysical unloading, and showing everyone the craft, he feels a sense of pride, becomes more self-confident.

Learning to sculpt an owl

You can easily teach a child how to mold an owl out of plasticine. This is a textured bird with large eyes, a beak, a round head, which even a novice craftsman can make. What color the future craft will be is not important.

It can be natural colors - brown, gray, black, or those that the child likes, and just those that are currently at hand. It will take a small amount of material two or threecolors, you can use the plastic eyes available in the kids art section.

Sculpting steps

Let's consider how to mold an owl from plasticine in stages.

1. Torso. From the main color, you need to make a ball 3-5 cm in size. Putting it on the table, you can pat and mash it with your palms so that it takes the form of a cake. The upper part needs to be slightly extended, outlining the shape of the neck and head, and on top of it, ears need to be fashioned on both sides.
2. Eyes. For the eyes, you need to roll two white balls, two smaller green ones, two black ones for the pupils. From them you need to make flat cakes, putting green on white, and black on green.
3. Beak. The beak can be made black, dark brown, orange. It can be a small drop, a stripe or a triangle.
4. Abdomen. The belly can be decorated with a plasticine circle in a contrasting color, making strips imitating feathers with a special stick (or toothpick), you can attach coffee beans.
5. Wings. The wings are made of two colors of plasticine, you can glue three "feather petals" on each side.

How to mold an owl from plasticine and a spruce cone?

Children are very interested in making crafts using natural materials. If you take a spruce cone with the sharp end down, then it will make an excellent blank for the body. You need to make a gray or brown ball, its diameter may be slightly less than the length of the cone, since the owl's head is quite large, glue it to the rounded part of the cone. Eyes can be made in the typesetting method described above. It is good if plastic eyes with movable pupils are used for crafts: they look spectacular and children really like it.

From bright plasticine, yellow or green, wings are made in the form of large triangles, on which strips are applied with a sticker or a toothpick. Three-toed paws are molded from the same plasticine.

During the lessons, children will learn how to mold an owl from plasticine, and also where these birds live, what they eat, what time of day they sleep, whether they see during the day. From white plasticine you can make a polar owl. These are the only birds that have eyes located in the same plane, and not on the sides of the head, and have auditory shells in their ears.

Despite their cute appearance, they are formidable predators. Many people want to tame a cute owlet, but their character is not suitable for domestic communication.