The first acquaintance of the kid to plasticine has to take place at the age of 1-1.5 years. The molding is a fine opportunity to spend time with benefit, developing fine motor skills, spatial thinking and imagination.
Beginning of creativity
That the baby liked to mold it is necessary to choose the quality, corresponding to age material. Plasticine for the smallest has to be soft with rich bright colors, besides, it should not stick strongly to hands. But the most important – it has to be safe, children often pull everything in a mouth.
At the beginning you should not try to teach the child to do equal "sausages" or "balls", especially, it is not necessary to try to master difficult figures. It is necessary to begin with the plasticine intended for the smallest, having allowed it to consider and master material, new to it, independently. You should not give it all color bars at once, quite there will be enough couple of pieces. It will be interesting to kid to rumple plasticine, watching how it easily changes a form.
Mame it is necessary to prepare that after entertainments it is necessary to wash the child and to wipe the stuck plasticine from a table-top and a floor. To minimize cleaning, in advance organize a workplace, using special boards for a molding. A floor under a chair can be laid a film or the old newspaper. Often mothers are mistaken, considering that through 3-4 fact-finding occupations, the baby it will be ready to serious lessons. Actually, conscious creativity is not interesting to kids up to 3 years at all. Children just mold, and then watch what at them turned out, to them process, but not the end result is important. Therefore you should not force events, it is much more important to cultivate to the child interest in creativity. But it does not mean at all that child it is necessary to put, hand him plasticine and to provide to itself. In this case already in couple of days the interest of the child will be gone without trace. Only joint creativity with parents or the senior brothers sisters will help to impart love for this fascinating process. The most important, the child has to see that the molding is interesting not only to it, but also the adult.
Classes for kids
To interest the child, offer him interesting game classes. For example, to teach the tot to pinch off plasticine pieces, it is possible to play with it chickens and chickens who want kernels and ask the child to feed them. It will be interesting to baby to tear off small pieces of plasticine and to treat with them the drawn or toy birds. Many children like to do the "plasticine appliques" which are ideal for the first acquaintance to this material. Options of such game there can be a set. For example, mom can draw a cloudlet, and the child does by plasticine rain droplets, or on the tree represented by mom attaches leaves and fruits. Besides, to the kid can it will be pleasant to smear soft plasticine on cardboard or dense paper in any order or painting the picture drawn with the adult.