How to make a slug from plasticine. How to make an elephant from pastiline. Video lesson - plasticine elephant
I promised you that we would make an elephant and I even got down to business, but something distracted me. As soon as I got my hands on it, grab it, grab it, I’ve already distributed and given away all the posters. Well, so it turns out, let's start again - great with the drawing. Let's draw an elephant
At the same time, let's check how I can draw an elephant without copying from anywhere. In depicting it, let us remind ourselves of the main external characteristics. We have already talked and talked about the large barrel-shaped body and large head, but now, I believe, we have already reached the level where, in addition to the formal similarity, we are already concerned about the internal structure of the depicted object.
We will accurately calculate and designate where the animal’s shoulders are, where its elbows are, how its feet bend, the size of its trunk, and we will clearly find a place for the eye and ear. You notice that our elephant acquires a certain volume, let’s say, a deeper reality. The process of drawing is interesting both in terms of learning and in terms of the pleasure this activity brings.
Well, now you can sculpt - the image of the “oliphant” is quite clear.
We will sculpt an elephant from one solid oblong piece. Pull about one-fifth over the head and immediately draw out the conical trunk. One fifth is actually too much for the head - we can allow ourselves this small allowance in order to balance the perception of a large body. But under no circumstances will we go overboard and distort the appearance of the elephant. From the large body we extend four legs equal in length and thickness.
We remember that the trunk should be much thinner than the leg. Let's designate and protrude slightly from the total mass of large and wide ears. They fall approximately where the neck should be.
The elephant turned out to be somewhat wrinkled: we won’t smooth it out, since in nature, even a small elephant’s skin resembles the bark of a tree, let alone adults.
Still, he is very nice and sweet. But where to apply it now? For example, using his example, we can observe what the mechanics of the movement of a large animal are (by rearranging its legs in different positions).
And here’s another thing - I once saw a wonderful figurine - a sitting elephant. Then I was very envious - the composition was remarkably harmonious - and I remembered - yes, a sitting elephant is mentioned in Kuprin’s story “The Girl and the Elephant”. A good, heartfelt story. The girl was sick, and her father, in order to restore her interest in life, agreed with the trainer, and an elephant was brought to visit her, straight home. The girl was very happy, talked with him, played, they had lunch and drank tea. The trained elephant was sitting on the floor. So let's sit down our plasticine elephant.
How to make an elephant from plasticine with children.
If you show the final photo of this wonderful elephant to a child, he will definitely want to make the same craft. The figurine looks really cute and charming!
Children love to tinker with plasticine and create something new and unusual. In this version, the elephant is blue, but it looks quite believable. You can replace this color with gray or even make a pink elephant if you want. The animal will fly in a hot air balloon, travel across the savannah, and come to a colorful festival of forest dwellers. All this will help to draw imagination in your thoughts.
You definitely need to come up with the plot of a fairy tale with an elephant after work. But it’s not difficult to make a figurine in reality and get a completely tangible toy.
Elephants, of course, are quite large animals; perhaps you have only seen them in the circus. No one will forbid us to make a miniature copy with our own hands.
To sculpt an elephant, prepare:
- blue plasticine;
- a little white and black plasticine;
- match.
How to make an elephant with your own hands step by step
1. Take a set of plasticine with a tool for work and see what blocks are in it. Blue color is perfect for creating crafts, but you can replace it with any other color.
2. Knead the prepared mass in your hands and make two balls, one of them should be slightly larger than the other. In the future, the balls will be used without changing their shape, so you can leave them in this form.
3. Glue one ball to another, showing the body and head of the baby elephant. Also prepare small soft portions for very long trunks and large ears. To sculpt these wonderful details you also need blue plasticine. These are the characteristic distinguishing features of the animal.
4. Pull the trunk into a sausage. Make the ears into round thin cakes. In the process of producing parts, focus on the size of the main part of the head and body.
5. Press the flat ears on the sides to the head. For an elephant, they should stick out in different directions. Attach the trunk, that is, a long sausage, in front. Use a match to push the hole. Take two drops of white plasticine, make fangs-tusks and glue the bottom to the robot.
6. Make small cylinders from the additional four portions of soft plasticine, which will later be needed to imitate the legs of an African giant. Also make a very small ponytail. To produce it, spend the crumbs of blue plasticine that you still have. Start attaching the cylinders to the body, while turning the elephant with its tummy up. The limbs should be short compared to the body.
7. Attach all four legs. Turn the elephant again with its belly down and put it on its feet. Press the product on top. Attach the tail to the back. Thus, initially 2 main balls were prepared, then all additional parts were attached to them.
8. All that remains is to make the eyes so that the animal can see everything that is happening around. Attach white and black grains. Now in front of you is a wonderful little plasticine elephant. It turned out funny, looking like a brightly colored plastic toy.
Orange, yellow, blue or any other color elephant made of plasticine. This is an incredibly beautiful craft that a child can make with his own hands. Of course, it will be difficult for very young children to cope with such work, but children 5-6 years old and elementary school students will take on sculpting an elephant with great pleasure. The main thing is to show children how to make an elephant step by step; this will be discussed in our step-by-step photo master class.
How to make an elephant from plasticine or mastic
As you already understood from these instructions, you can make an elephant not only from plasticine, but also from mastic, polymer clay or even salt dough. The modeling material is very similar in consistency, so you can easily and simply make the desired craft from any of these materials.
So, let's get started? 🙂
We make hemispheres from small balls. If desired, you can make them longer. The body needs to be made a little elongated. 
In order to make a trunk you need to use a pen or pencil. With its help we make a depression in the trunk. We attach it to the head. 
We fix the head to the body. Using white color we decorate the legs. 
Next we need a circle from which we will make an ear. To do this, you need to make a circle, cut off part of it and make a small fold. We make the second ear in the same way. 
Attach the ears to the head. We make eyes from white and black and, of course, don’t forget about the short cute tail. 
Here we have such a cute blue elephant.
And especially to such unusual animals as the elephant. And having learned to consistently perform the necessary actions under the guidance of an adult, over time the child will be able to create more complex plasticine
A blue elephant looks most impressive.
Therefore, we take this particular shade as a basis. First of all, we roll a sausage and a fairly large ball from such plasticine.
Using a stack, carefully cut the sausage into four equal parts. Leave the ball in its original form.
We attach the resulting pieces to it - like paws to the body of an animal.
We level the joints with our fingers.
We have the basis of the craft - the body of an elephant, which will also serve as its head. We will not make the head separately, so ours will turn out to be quite strong.
Let's roll another sausage. We divide it into three parts.
We roll two of them into balls and then flatten them (giving the shape of a circle), we turn the rest into a stick and bend it into a trunk. Carefully trim one edge of the trunk to ensure tighter contact with the head.
We attach the trunk and circles - ears - to the base. Our plasticine elephant immediately becomes recognizable.
We make two round cakes from pink plasticine, two small balls from white, and two small balls from black.
We attach pink cakes to the inside of the ears, white and black balls to the elephant’s face, like eyes.
We fashion small tusks from white plasticine and attach them next to the trunk.
All that remains is to make a small ponytail to match the ears.
We learned how to make an elephant from, creating the necessary elements step by step and connecting them with each other, and taught our baby.
And as a reward for his patience, he found a new handsome friend.
DIY plasticine elephant. Master class with photos
Master class for children with step-by-step photos: Animals of the southern countries from plasticine
Author: Dmitry Veselov 8 years old, studying at the Children's Art School named after A.A. Bolshakov, Velikiye Luki, Pskov region.Teacher: Natalya Aleksandrovna Ermakova, teacher, Municipal budgetary educational institution of additional education for children “Children’s Art School named after A.A. Bolshakov”, Velikiye Luki, Pskov region.
Description: The work can be done with children 6-9 years old. The material may be useful to educators, additional education teachers, children and their parents, and anyone who is interested in creativity.
Purpose: gift, board game.
Target: creating animals of southern countries from scrap materials.
Tasks:
-introduce children to the technique of creating crafts from old plasticine and glass molds, followed by painting the product with gouache;
- practice working with plasticine, gouache;
-develop creative imagination, accuracy in work;
- cultivate interest in creative activities.
Hello, dear guests! Many of us associate fairy tales with childhood, that irrevocable time that happens only at the very beginning of our lives. But is it true that it cannot be returned? You can be anyone - a teacher or a student, a worker or a socialite, but without faith in goodness and fairy tales, miracles on New Year's and Christmas night, life is boring and empty.
Everyone has their own favorite fairy tales and characters from childhood, soft toys of their favorite heroes, our favorite cartoons have been watched hundreds of times and still bring a smile and a great mood.
Tarzan, a fictional character created by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and first appearing in Tarzan of the Apes, is one of the most recognizable literary characters in the world. In addition to a huge number of books written by Burroughs himself and other authors, the character has appeared in many films, television programs, cartoons, radio, comic books and parodies.
He is also known as the King of the Jungle. Tarzan was rescued and raised by a colony of apes after his parents were killed by the leopard Sabor. He grew up in the jungle and his family were monkeys. Tarzan is very loyal and noble. He cares about his family and friends, even willing to risk his life to save them. As a child, he was playful and cheerful, although he was very worried that he was not like other animals. Tarzan's best friends are Turk the gorilla and Tantor the elephant, their friendship is admirable. Tarzan, Terk and Tantor first met when they were children. Since then they grew up together and never parted.
Gorilla Turk loves attention and is just the perfect “big sister.” She always protects Tarzan and is absolutely sure that he will be lost without her. Even though Tarzan has long grown up and even become stronger than Terk, she still believes that he should follow her advice. She is the best friend of the elephant Tantor, and although he quite often upsets the gorilla with his suspicious nature, Terk truly values him as a friend, this very timid and sometimes even cowardly elephant, who is incredibly easy to scare. But nevertheless, Tantor always takes care of his friends, and in some cases is ready to do brave things for their sake. Tantor was invited to the wedding of Tarzan and Jane along with the troop of gorillas in which the man grew up.
All fairy tales end sooner or later, and I really want them to continue, let's see what our heroes are like in life, because they have so much in common!
Elephants are the largest and strongest land animals living on Earth. They lift and drag heavy loads (about 9 tons) that a person cannot lift. However, relative to their own weight, their achievements are not large enough - only about 1.7 parts of their own weight. The length of their elephant body reaches 6-7.5 meters, and the average weight is 5 tons. Elephants live 40-60 years.
Gorillas are the largest and strongest among the primates. They have strong fore and hind limbs. This is a massive animal with very well developed muscles and enormous strength. Males have special strength; enormous power lies in their hands. An adult gorilla can lift 10 times its own weight. The height of adult males ranges from 1.65 to 1.75 meters when they walk on all four limbs, arms and legs. There were individuals 2 meters tall; it is believed that these primates do not reach a higher height. The average weight of males is 135-250 kilograms or more. Females weigh approximately 2 times less. A gorilla can live about 40-50 years.
Elephants are social animals that greet each other with a special ritual. One of them is the hug, where elephants wrap their trunks around each other. When he sees a baby elephant slipping in the mud, an adult elephant will certainly give him his trunk and put him on the ground. Just like people hold their children's hands. A baby elephant holds on to its mother's trunk. Elephants remain faithful to their herd. They are very sad when newborn elephants or other members of the herd die. Under other circumstances, they are able to rejoice, demonstrating happiness and fun. Elephants can laugh. It is noteworthy that elephants communicate at low frequencies, and the distance between two talking elephants can reach 10 kilometers.
Elephants have the largest brains of any land animal. His weight is 5 kilograms. Elephants are believed to have a wide range of behaviors and skills. They feel sad, worried, bored, help their relatives, and also have some abilities in music and drawing.
The importance of gorillas lies in the fact that they are close relatives of humans; humans share 98% of the same DNA. Despite the fact that gorillas cannot speak, they perfectly express all their emotions. They can laugh and be sad, cry, be shy, get angry, and show love. And communication usually occurs through the expression of emotions and gestures. Gorillas can make 22 different sounds, which they use to communicate with each other.
Gorillas are one of those rare species of animals that are capable of using tools. For example, using the most ordinary stick they measure the depth of a pond.
He does everything the elephant needs with his trunk: eats, picks leaves, picks up objects, waters himself. There are cases when elephants opened padlocks with a key. For example, the Indian or Asian elephant, thanks to its strength and trunk, helps people do complex and hard work. In India, elephants have long been in the service of humans.
Elephants are herbivores. They spend about 16 hours a day on food. Their diet is quite varied. It includes leaves, tree bark, fruits and vegetables, and herbs.
Elephants are considered not only the largest mammals on Earth, but also one of the most sociable animals: an elephant cannot live alone; it needs communication with its relatives. They live in a structured social order. The social life of males and females is different. Females spend almost their entire lives in a family group, which consists of mothers, daughters, and sisters, controlled by a female matriarch. Males lead a solitary lifestyle or live in groups with other males.
All adult elephants sleep standing up, huddled together and, if possible, leaning on each other. If the elephant is old and has very large tusks, then he places them on a tree or termite mound. An interesting fact about elephants is that baby elephants can easily afford to fall on their side, which they successfully do, but for some reason this habit goes away with age.
Gorillas live in nests. These primates make a new nest every evening (or even after a hearty dinner) on the ground or on the lower branches of trees. Moreover, females with cubs prefer to sleep in trees, and males, or “dominants,” settle on the ground. With the exception of very young individuals, each gorilla is entitled to an individual nest.
It is no secret that elephant tusks are a very expensive material, and poachers, unfortunately, do not miss this type of income. Elephants' tusks grow 7 inches (18 cm) per year and can reach lengths of more than 20 feet (6 meters). If the elephant dies on its own, then the tusks are eaten by African porcupines, thus trying to satisfy their mineral hunger. In many countries, killing an elephant is punishable by death.
Gorillas are a critically endangered species. Their natural habitat was destroyed when people began to occupy the land for farming and trees for fuel. Also, gorillas are killed by poachers and sometimes fall into traps that poachers set for other animals. As always, a person is distinguished by his cruelty and irresponsibility. And children should know what species of animals are on the verge of extinction, and why this is happening, since they are our future, and so that they do not repeat the mistakes of our time, in their own time.
Materials and tools:
-glass jar
- old plasticine
-gouache, stack
-toothpaste
-brushes, water jar, cloth for hands and arms
-Polish for hair
Progress of the master class:
First we need to cover the jar with a thin layer of plasticine.
Then we sculpt blanks of elephant legs (roll up large columns) and stick them to the jar.
Cover the neck of the bottle with a round piece of plasticine. Roll a large ball for the head and place it on the craft.
We roll two more balls, flatten them (ears) and apply them to the elephant’s head.
Next is the trunk, we will need a long column, we will press it to the head, and at the end we will make an incision with a stack. Let's make a ponytail.
All we have to do is sculpt eyes, tusks and a treat for the banana baby elephant. Then we cover the craft with a thin layer of plasticine, it will degrease it.
The paste must dry.
While our baby elephant was drying, we made another gorilla hero. We need a large oval for the body, a ball for the head and two short columns, two long ones for the paws. We connect the parts together, forming the body shape and posture characteristic of a gorilla.
