The magical winter season is a great time for creativity! To make the New Year 2022 memorable, bring joy, fun and laughter to the house, you can make New Year's crafts from plasticine with your children. It's a wonderful pliable, vibrant material. And if you don't like the result, you can safely disassemble and do it again!
In this New Year's article:
- materials for crafts;
- Christmas trees - New Year beauties;
- Santa Claus is a symbol of the holiday;
- snowmen are round winter characters;
- gingerbread men;
- Christmas balls;
- crafts on cardboard for the little ones.
What you need for New Year's plasticine crafts
So, in order to create plasticine wonders, we need:
- plasticine itself;
- stacks - special plastic knives. There is usually one in the box with the material, you can also purchase an additional set of stacks. With their help, figures are cut out, interesting reliefs and prints are made;
- plastic rolling pin;
- molds. If there are no special molds, you can take small hollows for baking;
- sculpting board or oilcloth on the table.
By the way, please note that for New Year's crafts, you can use not only the usual mass for modeling. Manufacturers offer a huge range of materials for children:
- wax plasticine - very soft, pliable, suitable for the smallest creators;
- light, or airy plasticine - crafts from it freeze if left in the air. Children's crafts can then be used as Christmas tree toys, souvenirs, interior decorations;
- ball - consists of small foam balls. New Year's crafts will turn out to be unusual and interesting.
A little imagination and patience, and amazing New Year crafts will decorate your home!
Plasticine Christmas trees
Let's start with a simple and beautiful version of a Christmas tree. Roll a long rope out of green plasticine, then twist it upward in a spiral. Balls of colored mass can be molded as decorations, or you can use beads, pompons, even icing sugar for the cake. Fancy jewelry can be made by cutting a colored drink straw into tiny rings.
Another way to make a herringbone is to build a green cone (pyramid) for a start. Next, you need imagination.
- You can make prints with the tip of the stack.
- You can scratch "pine needles" on the Christmas tree. An empty ballpoint pen refill is perfect for this.
- Cut out individual needles with small molds and attach them to the pyramid.
- Make notches with the tips of the scissors.
- Blind twigs from strips and attach them to our Christmas tree.
And here are other cool ideas on how to make a Christmas tree with your own hands (from different materials).
Santa Claus
To make a figurine of the main New Year's wizard - Santa Claus, you can use the step-by-step photo instructions. There are simpler options - for small children. It is not a shame to send a complex craft from many small parts to a competition in a school or kindergarten.
The simplest idea is to make a cone-shape in red. A face is attached to it, then a white beard and a fur edge.
Advice! If your sculpting kit does not have a flesh color, you can make one yourself. Mix the white and orange mixtures in a 5: 1 ratio in your hands.
And here are other ideas on how to make Santa Claus out of paper.
Sculpt a Snowman
What a winter without snow fun ?! As a New Year's craft from plasticine, blind a cute snowman with the children. The main thing is not to skimp on jewelry!
The snowman itself is easy to do: carefully fasten together two or three white balls. Handles can be added.
To make a bright striped scarf, roll up several colored flagella, place them next to each other on a board, and roll them lightly with a rolling pin. Cut out a long rectangle from the resulting "rug". For the fringe at the ends of the scarf, make shallow notches with a stack.
A snowman may have a cone hat on its head. A solid cylinder can be made by combining a short thick sausage and a flat circle (cake) of black mass.
Decorations for snowmen can be made from beads, small plastic buttons, ribbons. If you make figures from a solidified air mass, they can be additionally painted. Having passed a string, such New Year's plasticine crafts can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Plasticine gingerbread
Gingerbread men, any other figures can be cut out with cookie cutters. The main thing is to use the right colors. And to explain to children that such toys cannot be eaten, even though they look like real ones.
Important! Make sure children do not pull plasticine into their mouths. Modern materials have a harmless composition, but they are not suitable for food.
And if you suddenly decide to cook real gingerbread with your children, then we also have such a recipe.
Christmas balls
If you want to make Christmas balls for decorating a Christmas tree, take special foam blanks. They are sold in art supply stores. It is easy to coat such a ball with a thin layer of plastic mass and decorate for every taste.
Decorations on balls can be laid out from thin flagella, cut out elements - snowflakes, spruce twigs, petals, circles.
Any small jewelry - beads, buttons, beads, sequins, sparkles - will perfectly stick to the plasticine layer.
By the way! A smooth flagellum from the sculpting mass can be obtained by squeezing it out of a large syringe without a needle. The mass should be warmed up in the hands or on a battery in order to give it greater plasticity.
Crafts from plasticine on cardboard for the little ones
With the smallest children, you can make pictures according to a template. This is a great idea for winter evenings. To do this, you need to draw the outline of the object on the cardboard. Better to use simple geometric shapes: triangular Christmas trees, square gif.webpts, round balls.
As a basis for children's creativity, plastic lids from jars, for example, yogurt or mayonnaise, are suitable.
Or you can cut the silhouette out of thick cardboard and fill it as you wish.
The background is done with your fingers. It is necessary to smear small pieces of plasticine with an even layer, after thoroughly kneading it and warming it up in your hands. The main elements of the picture can be made more convex, from a thick layer of mass. Use a stack for relief. You can also make prints with a ballpoint pen body. For children, this is a great way to train fine motor skills of the hands.
A large New Year's picture for home decoration can be done by the whole family.
Postcards-pictures made of plasticine on cardboard look very impressive. Such a work of art can be presented to grandparents, who will certainly appreciate the work of their grandchildren!
New Year's crafts from plasticine - an opportunity to remember your childhood and have fun with your own children. Good luck in your work!
