Children and especially boys really like flying machines. In these lessons, children will learn how to easily sculpt helicopters for various purposes - military, fire (Ministry of Emergency Situations) and beautiful cartoon helicopters for the little ones.
The ideas of 4 plasticine helicopters will appeal to a future defender of the fatherland, a fire rescuer or an undecided little pilot. On their own with step-by-step photos or with the help of a teacher (parent), the children will make interesting crafts with their own hands that they can play with and give as gifts.
Cartoon helicopter made of plasticine
Let's look at how to make a cute helicopter from plasticine. This time it's friendly and cartoonish. A very easy modeling lesson for kids.
How to show that this figure is cartoon? First of all, you need to use bright shades, combine them with each other, without fear of going too far with color. And secondly, the eyes will help us, that is, the helicopter is like a toy, we need to show the eyes, mouth, maybe eyebrows. The cartoonish appearance will emerge and make for a fun sculpting lesson.
To sculpt a helicopter you need to prepare:
- a set of bright plasticine;
- spatula from the set.
How to make a cartoon helicopter step by step
- Take a block of plasticine, for example, blue, and sculpt a body - a part that resembles a barrel. Smooth it out on all sides, and also attach the tail at the back and bend it slightly upward. There is no need to make a long tail.
- Using a light blue or gray mass, make a front glass, that is, a fairly wide cake. It is better not to use white plasticine, as it will be needed later for sculpting the eyes. Otherwise, these details will merge, they will be the same in shade, and the eyes will get lost against such a background.
- Now make the rear propeller. Bright light green plasticine was used here. Gather the 3 blades together and attach to the tail.
- Glue eyes onto the windshield, adding pupils and eyebrows. The appearance of an unusual helicopter is already taking shape.
- Also make skis, for example, from purple plasticine, and the main blades that allow the helicopter to move through the air. To do this, you can combine red, yellow or other bright shades. Don't make the details big. Everything should be compact, miniature and very cute. This is exactly the task.
- Glue the blades on top of the helicopter body, which now looks like a kind of head, and place the entire structure on skis, bending the sharp part upward.
- If desired, you can add a mouth, and the bright figurine will be ready. Now you know how to make a cartoon copy of a helicopter from plasticine together with your kids.
Let's move on to practice
In today's article we offer you the most detailed instructions for sculpting an airplane for passengers, although there are a huge number of variations: cargo or military, for example. In each option, you must first take into account every feature of the aircraft. In order to make an airplane from plasticine with your own hands, you need to prepare materials such as plasticine itself (preferably gray, blue or black), matches and a glass will serve as tools. You will also need to stock up on one free evening and desire.
Of course, you can create the most unusual airplane by choosing very bright and unusual colors. But if you want to create a realistic aircraft, then choose the most common colors such as gray, black, white and blue. The most popular aircraft are made in gray-black or white-blue combinations. First of all, we take plasticine of the first color, warm it in our hands, soften it and roll the ball of the future airplane out of plasticine.
Then we pull the resulting ball into a sausage. Entrust this task to your baby, but tell him how to do it correctly. The child must press the plasticine ball between the handles or place it between the palm and the board. After this, roll out the ball with small oscillating movements back and forth.
Then help your baby squeeze the resulting sausage a little more. Then sharpen one of the parts of the sausage, and then round it a little to the shape of a real airplane. Thus, you have a nose. Take black plasticine and sculpt a large window in the cockpit. The imitation of the front windows should resemble a crescent moon.
In the next fifth step, the child can mold airplane wings from the main color, and then attach them to the sausage.
It is worth taking into account the fact that if you want to make a beautiful airplane, then the wings should not be thin. They must keep their shape.
Then take black plasticine, pinch off small pieces of it and attach it to the top as porthole windows on each side of the plane. Make a couple of barrels and have matches ready because you will need to make turbines.
Then attach to the bottom of the turbine housing. We attach them to the places where the wings connect to the main body of the toy.
Forming a tail. To do this, we fix the triangular elements at the back of the toy.
This is the airplane we made from plasticine. You can hang it on a string and send it flying in kindergarten. We are sure that every boy in this place will definitely like this toy.
Military helicopter made of plasticine - easy instructions for children
This lesson provides step-by-step instructions for sculpting a military helicopter, a craft that boys will really enjoy. It is advisable to make a strategic helicopter in dark colors; here green plasticine was taken as a basis, and you can add brown, gray and other shades.
An aircraft with a large propeller, a tail section, and a landing gear is not difficult to make, since the step-by-step lesson explains in detail all the secrets of modeling.
To sculpt a helicopter you will need:
- plasticine;
- thick cardboard;
- scissors;
- spatula for plasticine.
How to make a military helicopter from plasticine step by step
- Choose green, brown or gray plasticine for the base, and a second color will be needed to create spots, that is, the camouflage effect.
- Sculpt a teardrop-shaped green piece, another thin green sausage and glue them together to show the body of the helicopter and the tail section.
- Make small balls from blue and white plasticine and, pressing them against the body on both sides, show the portholes. Attach the windshield in front and glue 2 long green pieces on top - the base of the propeller.
- To make wide blades, it is better to use some kind of dense base, such as cardboard, as in this case. Cut out 2 strips of cardboard, spread a thin layer of plasticine, blue was used here, and glue them together crosswise.
- Now it's time to show the spots on the body of the helicopter, creating a camouflage color. Use beige or gray plasticine for this.
- Glue the propeller on top.
- Add a chassis from below by molding small tablets from gray or black plasticine. Show the side door, make a border with a stack.
- Attach additional parts such as a small propeller at the tail, signal lights and other options. In this case, a photograph of a helicopter will help you, in which you can examine small parts and, using plasticine of the desired color, attach them to the body.
- Now you know how to make a military helicopter from plasticine, and be sure to repeat this easy master class with your child.
Military model
In the second stage of this article, we suggest that you and your child figure out how to make a military aircraft using the example of a step-by-step master class with photos. Prepare a couple of pieces of green and blue plasticine, but you can also make a plain airplane.
Warm up the plasticine and mix two blocks together. Thus, the future military aircraft will be khaki-colored and even more reminiscent of the original.
We roll out the plasticine into a ball, which we then stretch into the shape of a sausage, from which we make the shape of an airplane.
Then we take a little more plasticine and roll out the ball shape.
A little closer to the beginning of the plane we attach the wings to the body of the plane.
Then make three triangles from which we mold the shape of the tail of the plane.
We place finished blanks at the end of the body.
Make a rectangular block from a small piece of plasticine and press it onto the body of the plane to form the cockpit. We make glass from plasticine.
Our military aircraft is almost ready. We add a propeller in front, which we attach to a large match.
This is how we figured out how to make an airplane step by step.
Firefighter helicopter made of plasticine
A fire helicopter in the form of a small figurine can be bought for a child, because there are toys and construction sets on sale. But it’s much more interesting to make such a model yourself and use ordinary plasticine, which gives many possibilities. You can sculpt toys and real models of any kind of equipment by looking at photographs and adding all kinds of details.
In this lesson, we’ll look at how to build a firefighting helicopter with the kids, preferably red, so that the model is recognizable.
To sculpt a helicopter, prepare:
- red, white, gray plasticine;
- toothpick
How to make a fire helicopter step by step
- The main color for work is red. The main parts will be made from this mass: body, tail, and other parts. White will be needed to apply the stripes, because the color of this helicopter model is unique. Gray is needed for additional parts, including the propeller.
- Form a small block from the soft red mass.
- On one side of the block, sharpen the bow. On the other side, glue the tail, gradually tapering towards the end.
- Glue a trapezoidal piece pointing upward to the tail. Roll out very thin string sausages from the white mass and glue them on both sides along the body, as well as on the tail part.
- Make the front glass and side windows from light gray plasticine and stick them on. These should be very thin cakes that need to be smoothed along the edges.
- Add gray plasticine. From it, make a small propeller with flat blades for the rear part, and at the top of the mount for the main propeller.
- Since it is necessary to make long blades, and the plasticine may sag, because it is soft at the first stage, it is better to disguise a toothpick or other stick inside. Glue gray plasticine on both sides, smooth it out and attach it on top.
- Since such a helicopter is used by the Ministry of Emergency Situations to extinguish fires, it is possible to attach signal lights, siren lights on top, and add additional parallelepipeds on the sides - these are containers with water. The helicopter is designed to extinguish large fires in the forest or other places.
- The resulting interesting helicopter model is a wonderful and desirable toy for boys.
How can I replace plasticine?
If you want the plane to be stored for a long time, then mold it from baked polymer clay. Due to its high cost, this material is not very suitable for children, but adults like to sculpt with it. After baking, such an airplane will become hard and the wings flexible. And if it falls, it is unlikely to break and, of course, will not be dented.
Alternatively, you can make an airplane using cake fondant. The model is molded in the same way as from plasticine. This airplane can be used to decorate any children's birthday cake!
Probably, every mother tries to give her baby the most beautiful things, spend as much time with him as possible and help with the development of the baby’s various abilities. If you are going to develop fine motor skills, then we suggest making a small toy out of plasticine for you and your child. For boys, the most promising option would be to sculpt an airplane. After all, boys most often like to tinker, sculpt, and play with all the cars and aircraft. Modeling from plasticine is considered one of the best educational games, but it will become much more interesting and exciting if in just half an hour you get a real copy of a real plane from plasticine.
