Ladybug is a simple and bright model for modeling with children from plasticine. This insect enjoys good fame among all nations. Our closest neighbors - Belarusians, Ukrainians, Slovaks - affectionately call her “Sun”. Tajiks call her “Redbeard Grandfather”. In English-speaking countries - England, USA, South Africa - the name of this bright beetle is “Lady Bird”. IN South America it is called "St. Anthony's Cow", and in Germany and Switzerland "St. Mary's Beetle". So respectful or pet names They gave it to the ladybug for a reason. People have long noticed that where there are a lot of these beetles, there good harvest. The fact is that the ladybug is not only a beautiful, but also a very useful insect. Both the adult beetle and its larvae destroy the crop pest - aphids. To combat this field pest, it was even brought from Europe to America. Ladybug was not found there before.
We offer you two options for modeling a Ladybug from plasticine. The first - simple - option is suitable for working with preschool children in the senior or preparatory group of a kindergarten. The second option is for older guys.

A simple ladybug made of plasticine - modeling insects with children from 5 years old

For work we will need black and red plasticine. You will need a very small piece of white plasticine.
Let's roll a ball out of red plasticine and, pressing it firmly against the table, give it the shape of a hemisphere (gingerbread).

Roll a ball out of black plasticine and apply it to the body. Using a stack, draw a line on the shell, dividing it in half and forming two wings.

Let's roll a sausage out of black plasticine, divide it into six segments and make the legs of a ladybug out of them.

Roll six small balls from black plasticine and stick them onto the wings, slightly flattening them. Let's mold the antennae and eyes. The plasticine ladybug is ready!

Ladybug from plasticine - modeling insects with children from 5 years old.

Ladybug from plasticine - modeling insects with children from 7 years old

This model is a little more complicated than the previous one. Here the Ladybug “opened” its wings. For work we will need red, black and white (a little) plasticine.
Roll a ball out of black plasticine and flatten it into a cake.

From a piece of black plasticine we roll a long thin sausage-flagellum and, dividing it into three parts, stick it to the black pancake base.

Let's turn the figure over and “put” it on the legs we just sculpted. Roll a ball out of black plasticine and apply it to the body. This is the head of a ladybug.

Roll a ball out of red plasticine and, pressing it from below with your fingers, form a hat, as when sculpting mushrooms from plasticine. The diameter of the “hat” should approximately correspond to the base of the ladybug’s body. Cut the resulting “hat” into a stack in the middle.
Let's stick the red wings to the base of the ladybug.

All that remains is to revive and decorate our ladybug. Let's roll up the flagellum, “curl” it and make antennae. Roll six small black balls, flatten them and stick them on the wings. From two pieces of white plasticine we will make two false eyes. Here is another Ladybug made of plasticine!

Ladybug made of plasticine - modeling insects from plasticine with children from 7 years old.

Ant from plasticine - modeling insects with children from 6 years old

You can make ants from plasticine with children aged 6 years and older. As you know, ants do not live alone - they are social animals and form entire colonies - anthills. Strict order reigns in anthills. Each ant knows exactly its duties and fulfills them. No matter how small the ant is, it is one of the most powerful inhabitants of our planet. After all, he can lift ten times his own weight! If people had such strength, then two not very large men could easily carry a car from place to place. And a preschool child could carry his tired mom and dad home from a walk without any problems. Ants are also great builders. After all, compared to their size, an anthill is a real skyscraper.
When working on this craft, you can use natural materials. And not only to make legs for ants from twigs, and not from plasticine. Create your own small anthill by sketching sticks and straws. And then “populate” it with cheerful and hardworking ants.

Stages of modeling an ant from plasticine

Divide the plasticine block in half. Make an elongated ellipsoidal egg from the half. You can even make one end pointed. Divide the remaining piece in half and form a ball and a short carrot cone.

Connect all three parts to each other.

Roll long black sausages from black plasticine. Make six legs out of them: four short ones and two longer ones. And two short and thin mustaches. Both legs and antennae can be made not only from plasticine, but also from wires or twigs.

Stick the legs to the ant's chest and the antennae to the head.

Make eyes. Cut through the mouth with a stack.

Ant from plasticine - modeling insects with children from 6 years old.
Our plasticine ant is ready to hit the road or start working for the benefit of his native anthill! If you mold a dragonfly from plasticine, you can act out Grandfather Krylov’s famous fable “The Dragonfly and the Ant.”

Caterpillars made of plasticine - modeling from plasticine with children from three years old

Plasticine caterpillars are simple craft with children. Funny caterpillars can become one of your baby's first sculptural masterpieces. We present two different models. Both of them are created using the simplest modeling techniques from plasticine. Even if the balls for the first or the “sausage” for the second caterpillar turn out to be uneven, the work will still be successful and will be decorative. And for kids this will serve as an excellent exercise in working with plasticine. You can make small details - eyes, antennae - yourself or use ready-made options. For example, plastic eyes for soft toys and wires - regular or chenille - for antennae. All caterpillar decorations can be made from plasticine, but this is difficult for small children. Therefore, we recommend using ready-made beads and seed beads.

Plasticine caterpillar - modeling with children from three years old

Let's roll six or more multi-colored balls.

Let's connect the balls together. For convenience, you can use a cardboard base.

We decorate the caterpillar with ready-made beads or seed beads. We make antennae from pieces of wire or toothpicks. The plasticine caterpillar is ready!

Plasticine caterpillar - modeling with children from three years old.

Caterpillar-worm made of plasticine - a craft for children from three years old

Let's make a long carrot cone. With kids, just make a sausage cylinder. If it turns out lumpy, it doesn’t matter.

We decorate the caterpillar with ready-made beads. You can make the eyes yourself or use industrial ones. Let's cut the mouth with the stack.

Let's turn the worm into a centipede caterpillar. Cut the cocktail stick into pieces and stick these pieces into the abdomen. From the same sections we will make antennae-horns. The plasticine worm caterpillar is ready! Now you can turn it into a plasticine butterfly!

A caterpillar made from plasticine and cocktail sticks - a craft for children aged three years and older.

Butterflies from plasticine - modeling insects with children from three years old.

Plasticine butterfly - interesting craft with preschool children. The main difficulty children may have when depicting a butterfly is sculpting the wings. But if you use additional material - cardboard - to create the wings, then this problem will be immediately solved. In this form, the craft immediately becomes so simple that it is suitable even for three-year-old children. This is exactly the kind of butterfly we propose to make in the first version.
And for children 5-6 years old (older and preparatory group kindergarten) and older butterflies can be made more complex and interesting. All other options are suitable for this age.
We provide templates for cutting out wings from cardboard, but, of course, you can easily draw the wings yourself.

A plasticine butterfly with cardboard wings is a simple craft for children aged three years and older.

Let's make a sausage-cylinder.

Cut out the wings from cardboard in advance. This needs to be done by an adult.

Wings template for a simple craft with children - plasticine butterfly with cardboard wings.
Let's decorate the wings with a simple plasticine molding. For example, roll up multi-colored balls and press them, flattening them onto the wings.

Stick the cardboard wings into the plasticine sausage body. In principle, the work can be completed here.

If you want, you can make butterfly antennae from straws, twigs, or chenille wire. The plasticine butterfly is ready.

A plasticine butterfly with cardboard wings is a simple craft for children aged three years and older.

A plasticine butterfly with cardboard wings is a simple craft for children aged five years and older.

This model is very similar to the previous one, but we will sculpt the body in more detail. In addition, children will be able to show their imagination and artistic taste by designing wings.
Shape the sausage into a cylinder. Roll it in the middle with your finger to make a butterfly “waist”.

Let's roll a round ball. Using your fingers, pull out two small horns - antennae - from plasticine. This is the head of a butterfly.

Let's press the parts together.

Let's take cardboard wing blanks (the template in the previous model) and decorate them with plasticine molding as your imagination dictates.

We stick the finished wings into the plasticine body.

If you want, you can make beautiful antennae from thin plasticine flagella.

A molded plasticine butterfly - a craft for children aged 5 years and older.

This option is primarily decorative. We do not sculpt, but rather draw with plasticine. This butterfly is convenient because it can be hung on a ribbon or glued to a group composition.
Cut out a silhouette from cardboard.

A molded template for a butterfly made of plasticine - crafts for children aged 5 years and older.
We start by creating the body. We make a head from the ball. The two sausages make up the body, and their thin flagella make up the antennae.

Let's decorate the butterfly as your imagination suggests.

WITH reverse side We attach the ribbon with tape - now the plasticine butterfly can be hung.

A molded plasticine butterfly - a craft for children aged 5 years and older.

Plasticine butterfly - sculpting insects with children

You can make a butterfly entirely from plasticine. Below we provide diagrams for sculpting two butterflies.

Sculpting patterns with children using butterflies in their plasticine.

Modeling "Colored umbrellas" middle group No. 5

Teacher Orishchenko A.S.

(modeling from plasticine using additional material)

Target: creating a colored figure using additional objects (plastic tubes) of an “umbrella” in volume.

Tasks:

Strengthen children's ability to sculpt a ball and flatten it between their palms, giving the resulting disk the required form. Strengthen children's ability to independently decorate a product with bas-relief (plasticine molding).

Activate speech, develop imagination, eye, thinking, fine motor skills fingers

Cultivate a friendly attitude towards guests and an interest in modeling.

Progress of the lesson:

1. Organizational moment.

Guys, what time of year is it now? (Spring)

Name the signs of spring. (Children's answers.)

What natural phenomenon is this riddle about?

Hidden in the clouds, in the darkness,

He came and filled the tubs.

I diligently watered the beds,

Noisily he washed the windows,

I danced on the porch.

Wandered around the roof to my heart's content

And he walked through the puddles into the field.

Does it rain in spring? It's true that it rains in the spring, but not as often as in the fall.

Look at the pictures on the screen and name the items that are needed when it's raining (sunglasses, raincoat, rubber boots, felt boots, hat, sandals, umbrella, sled, fur coat)

Which of the following items is most necessary in the rain? That's right - it's an umbrella (card umbrella)

Why? (Children's answers)

(folder Rain, picture walking in the rain)

There's a cloud in the sky, oh, oh, oh!

Everyone is running, hurrying home.

I'm the only one laughing

I'm not afraid of the black cloud.

I'm not afraid of rain and thunder,

I'm walking under an umbrella.

Let's look at the umbrella ( demonstration of a real umbrella). What does it consist of and what does it have? It has a handle and a roof.

What types of umbrellas can there be in shape and color?

Let's take a little rest and warm up:

On Monday I swam

And on Tuesday I painted,

On Wednesday I took a long time to wash my face,

And on Thursday I played football.

On Friday I jumped, ran, and danced for a very long time.

And on Saturday, Sunday

I rested quietly.

Well done. Now let's continue.

Oh look, someone came to visit us. Who is this? This is a hedgehog. Let's say hello to him. What's in his paws? Letter! I wonder what it says. Let's read it:

"Good afternoon, my friends!

I came to you from the forest.

It rains there all day long,

You must help quickly.

The forest dwellers are asking

Give colored umbrellas.

We can't live without them,

We'll get sick, friends!"

Practical part

Look at my umbrella. Describe what he is like. (bright, colorful, round roof, handle made from a plastic juice straw.)

See how to make an umbrella. Let's start with the roof - roll the ball, flatten it into a flat cake and raise the edges, like a bowl. The roof is ready, all that remains is to decorate it. You can use balls, flowers, sausages, etc. After the roof is decorated, we move on to decorating the handle. We take a plastic tube and cover its tip with a piece of plasticine. And now we connect the handle to the roof. Our umbrella is ready.

Guys, in order for us to make umbrellas for the forest dwellers, we need to prepare. Our fingers must play. Let's bend our fingers and repeat after me:

This finger wants to sleep

This finger went to bed

This finger took a little nap,

This finger has already fallen asleep,

Hush your finger, don't make noise

Don't wake up your brothers

Fingers stood up - hurray!!

IN kindergarten it's time to go!

Let's remember what we work with with plasticine (board). When finished, use a napkin to wipe the handles.

Is the task clear? Then let's get to work.

Reflection.

Well done. Did a great job. Let's remember who came to visit us and what they asked for. Did we help the hedgehog? He gives you a huge thank you and returns back to the forest. Let's say goodbye to him.

"Good afternoon, my friends!

I came to you from the forest.

It rains there all day long,

You must help quickly.

The forest dwellers are asking

Give colored umbrellas.

We can't live without them,

We'll get sick, friends!"

Well, let's help the forest dwellers and make bright plasticine umbrellas for them?

You little hedgehog, just sit and watch how the guys make umbrellas. (we move to the desktops.)

1. About the time of year.

2. riddle

3. pictures of items needed in the rain

4. the most important item in the rain is an umbrella

5. poem about a walk in the rain

6. consider the umbrella (shape, color)

7. warm-up (days of the week)

8. appearance of a hedgehog (letter from forest dwellers)

9. moving to work stations, demonstrating the product

10. showing how to sculpt

11. finger gymnastics

12. independent work

Modeling is a fun pastime. Both adults and children enjoy making crafts from plasticine, dough, clay and many other plastic materials. For kids, modeling is also great opportunity comprehensive development. Kneading the modeling material with your fingers helps improve fine motor skills. Memory, imagination and creativity develop. Children learn to concentrate and concentrate. Lessons often have a theme and are accompanied by stories about the subject of modeling, so kids increase vocabulary and the amount of information about the world around us. The theme of modeling for activities with children can be anything. And of course, it’s more interesting to sculpt something that the kids have already seen, for example, insects. A beautiful multi-colored butterfly or a bright green caterpillar will be excellent models for creating crafts with your own hands. You can sculpt from different materials and adapting any master class to the raw materials that are available is not difficult.

While playing on the lawn, the kids have seen a grasshopper more than once and, no doubt, will want to make one.

Grasshopper.

To make a grasshopper you need:

• Working board or table;
• Plasticine different shades green and brown;
• Knife for cutting (stack);
• Wire;
• 2 beans for the eyes.

The grasshopper is ready.

Multi-colored caterpillar.

To make a caterpillar you need:

• Plasticine in yellow, white, red, orange, blue, black and purple;
• Knife for cutting (stack);
• Toothpicks.

In this craft you will need to mix plasticine of 2 colors. Yellow + orange = light orange, orange + red = red-orange and red + blue = light purple.

The caterpillar is ready. All that remains is to plant it on a piece of paper.

Bee.

Before sculpting a bee, you need to tell the children that these insects are not only beautiful and bright creatures. They are useful. They provide honey and pollinate flowering plants so that fruits can ripen on them. Even the smallest children can create a bee. The tools and materials you will need are the same as in previous cases.

The bee is ready.

Ladybug.

All children know what a ladybug looks like. Even the smallest sculptor can sculpt it.

The ladybug is ready.

Butterfly.

Older kids can be asked to make a butterfly. Before this, you can go for a walk and carefully observe how butterflies flutter from flower to flower. The beauty of sculpting a butterfly is that the child can choose any colors to create it. The brighter the merrier.

To create a butterfly you will need:

• Work surface (board or table);
• Plasticine of different colors;
• Knife for cutting (stack);

Form:

GCD purpose:. Continue to instill in children an interest in modeling.

Tasks:

Educational: – learn to create an image of an insect from individual parts, using skills in working with plasticine - breaking off small pieces, rolling, flattening.

Developmental: – develop vocabulary, fine motor skills, coordinate hand movements, creative imagination.

Educational: - to cultivate a caring attitude towards nature and its inhabitants.

Material: plasticine (yellow, black, white); hand wipe; modeling board (for each child)

Demo material: artificial flower with a specimen bee.

Progress of the lesson.

1. Organizational moment:

Educator: The warm season of Spring has arrived. In warm spring weather, everyone comes to life and awakens from hibernation. The first butterflies and beetles appeared on our site, ants climbed out of their anthills, and grasshoppers began to chirp. And who can tell me what to call them all in one word? (Insects). I would like to introduce you to one very useful insect! And try to guess which one.

I wake up early in the morning,

I'm going to work -

I'm happy with the whole warm summer day

It’s not too lazy to carry honey home!

(Bee.)

Educator: That's right, it's a bee...

And now, to learn more about bees We'll watch the presentation.

After watching, talk with the children about the insect bee.

As soon as the first sun warms up and the first flowers appear, the bee is already busy with work: collecting fragrant and sweet nectar, building a hive, pollinating plants.

Bees, the most useful insects for us of all the insects on the globe. All the waste products of bees (and there are many of them: honey, propolis, beeswax, beebread, royal and drone jelly, pollen and bee venom) are used by humans to great benefit. Not only is honey sweet and tasty, it is also very good for health, and other beekeeping products are real medicine! To prepare just 100 grams of honey, she must fly 46 thousand kilometers. This is the same as flying around the globe along the equator.

Bees help not only people, but also plants. On their legs they carry pollen from one flower to another, pollinating them. Due to this, plants and trees produce fruits and seeds.

And now you and I will play a little. Our game is called "Bears and bees » .

Children are divided into two unequal groups. About one third of children "bears", the rest

« bees » . One way groups"forest", in the opposite "meadow". « Bees » must be in "forest". At the teacher's signal « bees » They fly to the meadow and buzz. As soon as everything « bees » will fly away "bears" go to the forest for honey. At the teacher's signal "Bears!", « bees » they fly and sting those who do not have time to escape "bears", the game is repeated 2-3 times.

Abstract joint activities adults and children
in visual arts.
Topic: “Summer. Insects. Bee".
Integration educational areas: artistically – aesthetic development; cognitive development; speech development.
Types of visual activities: modeling.
Preliminary work:
Material:
– handout: plasticine (yellow, black, white); hand wipe; modeling board.
– demonstration: artificial flower with a ready-made “Bee” craft, illustrations of bees.
Program content:
1. Educational. Learn to create an image of an insect from individual parts, using skills in working with plasticine - breaking off small pieces, rolling, flattening.
2. Developmental. Develop fine motor skills, coordinate hand movements, creative imagination.
3. Educational. Foster a caring attitude towards nature and its inhabitants.
Progress of the lesson.
Stage I. Introductory part.
Educator. Guys, guess the riddle:
Hard-working housewife
Flying over the lawn
Will fuss over the flower -
He will share the honey.
(Children's answers).
Educator. That's right, it's a bee. What words of the riddle helped you solve it?
(Children's answers).
The teacher shows a flower with a bee and reads a poem:
A bee sits on a flower
How small is she?
Our bee in her proboscis
Gathers sweet juice
And the flower sways
She doesn't like it!
Educator. Guys, let's imagine that we are funny bees.
Physical education lesson “Bee - bee”.
Bee - bee (we wave our hands like wings),
Small head (put hands on head)
She sat on a flower (without removing her hands from her head, twirl it)
Turn the head (from side to side),
Fell into the grass (drop your hands on your knees)
Fell into a hole (remove your hands from your knees and drop them into the “hole”).
The bees worked hard and returned to the hive quickly. (children sit at tables).
Educator. Guys, what does a bee collect in its proboscis? (Sweet juice).
Sweet juice is nectar. On flowers, bees collect nectar and pollen with their proboscis, which settles on their legs and furry body. Bees make honey from nectar, and feed their babies with pollen mixed with a drop of honey.
Educator. Let's look at the bee. What head? (Round, with eyes and proboscis). What belly? (Oval, yellow with black stripes and four wings) Which is larger and which is smaller? (The head is smaller, the abdomen is larger).
Bees live in large families in houses called hives. Let's make friends for our bee so that she won't be lonely and will have someone to collect nectar with and play in the flower meadow. But before work, let's stretch our fingers.
Finger gymnastics “Hardworking Bee”.
The bee works all day (draw a circle in front of you with your hands)
And she is not too lazy to work (shaking her index fingers as a sign of denial).
Flies from flower to flower (rhythmic waves of arms),
Glues pollen to the abdomen (circular movements of the palm over the abdomen).
The proboscis sucks nectar (stretch your hand forward, then down, bend over),
He will collect a lot in a day (open all your fingers in front of you).
It will carry the nectar to the hive (depict flight)
And he will come back like a bullet (he will sharply throw his hand with his index finger extended forward).
The honey is compacted in the honeycombs (foot stamping),
Winter will come soon (shudder).
The bees will have something to eat (imitation of moving a spoon).
You should try it in the summer (imitation of putting honey in a honeycomb).
Stage II. Main part.
Educator. Now let's get down to the important task: blinding our bees. We need to roll two sausages from equal pieces of black and yellow plasticine. Divide these sausages first in half, then the halves in half again (i.e. into four parts). Roll them into four yellow and black balls. Flatten two yellow and three black balls into a thick cake. Assemble the body, alternating flatbreads. The remaining two yellow balls: the head and the back of the body, attach them. Make insect legs from the last black ball (pinching off pieces and rolling small columns). Make small teardrop-shaped wings from white plasticine and attach them to the back of the insect. Decorate the muzzle with a proboscis and eyes. The bees are ready.
Stage III. The final part.
Educator. Guys, you are great. Look how wonderful the bees turned out! A real swarm of bees!
Share acquired knowledge with children. Invite the children to see who made which bees. Create an exhibition together with the children.