Food from plasticine. How to mold for dolls, what can be done with your own hands

Plasticine – a material that helps develop children's imagination. It can be used to create various figures, household items, animals, birds, and humans. If a child cannot cook food on their own, they will be interested in sculpting dishes from plasticine.

Tools and materials for sculpting food for dolls from plasticine

Food made from plasticine (it can be molded from any type of plasticine) will require additional items in addition to the basic material for preparation.

These could be:

• matches and toothpicks – for applying various patterns to the surface;
• plastic knife – for cutting plasticine into pieces;
• a special board made of plastic or wood – for ease of work.

Master class on cake making

For dolls and toys, you can not only sew or create household items, but also mold various treats from plasticine. For example, a cake. What can be used to mold a cake?

For modeling you will need to prepare:

Tool, material	Description
Plasticine	It is necessary to prepare plasticine of different colors. Brown will play the role of the base, and from blue and pink shades you can make a berry layer.
Flat horizontal surface	The surface is needed to level the edge of the cake.
Special knife	It is required to remove excess parts and cut the finished product.
Toothpick	It will help to give the dough porosity.

How to make a base?

The base of the plasticine cake will be pieces of different colors.

It is made as follows:

1. Roll the pieces of plasticine into balls, then flatten each of them. As a result, the brown ones will form analogs of the cakes, and the other colors will form a berry layer. It is enough to make 4 pancakes for 1 cake - 2 brown and 2 other colors - blue and pink. To make their edges even, you need to roll them out on a horizontal surface.
2. Connect the resulting cakes: there should be a layer of a different color between the 2 brown colors.
3. The craft should be rolled again on a flat surface.
4. Cover the resulting multi-layered product with fondant. It can be made, for example, from blue plasticine. To do this, roll out a piece very thinly and carefully wrap the cake with it.
5. Remove any excess top coating that forms on the product using a knife, and then press the layers firmly with your fingers. The cake base is ready.

How to decorate a finished cake?

In order for the product to become complete and believable, it will require some work.

To do this:

1. Take a small brown piece of plasticine and roll it into a thin thread, then braid it. This will be an analogue of the cream on the surface of the confectionery.
2. Place the resulting braid on top along the perimeter and around the bottom of the cake.
3. Using a knife, cut the cake into pieces and give the cake layers a porous structure by making many holes in the brown layer. Use a toothpick for this.

If the cake doesn't look appetizing enough, you can decorate it with roses, pieces of fruit or another layer of cream on top.

Cake

To make a cake, you need:

1. Take white plasticine, roll it into a ball and squeeze it slightly.
2. Make fondant from pink plasticine and stick it onto a flattened white ball.
3. For beauty and authenticity, sprinkle the product with yellow and light green balls on top.

Pie

Any food can be molded from plasticine, especially good baked goods are made from it, because the texture of the material is similar to dough. For example, to work on creating a pie, you will need a plastic knife and 2 multi-colored pieces of plasticine. One of them will play the role of dough, the other - the filling. Its color depends on what taste qualities the child wants to give to his pie.

For example, for:

• The strawberry filling uses a bright red color;
• apricot - yellow;
• chocolate - brown;
• plum - blue;
• currant - purple.

The dough should be molded from a beige or light brown piece of plasticine.

When everything is ready, you need to:

1. Roll a ball from a piece that has the same color as the dough.
2. Press the ball down to form a flat cake.
3. Start working with the filling: divide the colored piece into many small pieces, make a berry out of each.
4. Place the prepared berries on a layer of dough.
5. To create the top layer of the pie, stretch the dough-colored plasticine into thin threads. Use a knife to cut the threads.
6. Place several ready threads parallel to each other on top of the filling, and then place several more threads perpendicularly. As a result, a mesh is formed.
7. To make the pie more beautiful, wrap it in a dough braid.

Ice cream

To make ice cream, you will need multi-colored pieces of plasticine and a knife. The colors can be any, depending on the type of ice cream. For example, white is used for creamy ice cream, and brown is used for chocolate ice cream.

The ice cream itself will be in a waffle vessel, which should be molded from yellow plasticine:

1. Taking a piece of suitable size, begin to knead it until it becomes soft and pliable.
2. Make a cone out of the crushed plasticine.
3. Take a white piece to make the creamy layer or a brown piece for the chocolate layer.
4. Take red plasticine and make strawberry fondant.
5. Decorate the finished product with small elements by sticking small multi-colored pieces on top.

To make the waffle cone look like a real one, you can decorate it with a diamond pattern using a toothpick.

Pizza

Plasticine food (you can mold not only sweets and pastries, but also hot snacks) in the form of pizza has many cooking options. The main element will be a flatbread, the rest depends on the imagination of the child and the adult helping him.

The flatbread itself can be made from an orange or yellow piece of plasticine. The remaining ingredients can be cheese, tomatoes, sausage, pepper. Having decided which of them and in what quantities will be used, you should prepare the corresponding colors.

The pizza making process takes place in 4 stages:

Stage	Description of the sequence
1. Make a flatbread	1. Roll out an orange or yellow piece of plasticine into a thin layer. 2. Make a thin thread from another piece of the same color. 3. Place the thread on the flat cake along the perimeter
2. Spread the sauce on the pizza	1. Make a thin flat cake from red plasticine, the size of which corresponds to the base. This will be the ketchup. 2. Add white to the red color, which will be similar to mayonnaise. 3. Place the resulting thin flatbread on top of the base.
3. Lay out the ingredients	1. Place small pieces of tomato from red plasticine on top of the sauce, and onion rings from white plasticine. 2. If you need to add sausage, make it from pink plasticine. 3. Sprinkle the pizza with olives - small balls molded from black plasticine
4. Decorate the pizza with cheese	1. Divide the yellow piece of plasticine into several small strips. 2. Make holes in the resulting pieces to resemble cheese. 3. Sprinkle the pizza with cheese, it's ready.

Chocolate

To make a chocolate bar, you need:

4. Take a brown block of plasticine and roll it out to the desired size.
5. Using a knife, press the slices onto the plasticine from above.
6. To create a clear rectangle, cut off the excess on the sides.

To make the chocolate look more interesting, one of its corners can be “bitten off”. For this, a dense and flexible plate is used.

Loaf

It is easy to mold a loaf of bread from plasticine. It is enough to take a beige piece and give it the shape of a three-dimensional oval, and then use a toothpick or other tool to mark diagonal notches on the surface of the workpiece. Wheat bread is ready.

If you plan to make sandwiches from this loaf, then you need to cover it with a thin layer of darker plasticine. It will act as a crispy crust.

Hamburger

Food made of plasticine, which can be molded in various shades, visually resembles the real thing. For example, a hamburger, consisting of several ingredients of different colors, will require several pieces of plasticine of different colors for molding. The upper and lower parts are made of brown plasticine. A cutlet, which is the middle part of a multi-layered dish, is made from a piece of the same color.

To prepare, you will need a large piece of brown plasticine, smaller pieces of yellow, green, black, and white. They will serve as ingredients. In addition to the plasticine itself, you will need a special plastic knife, which will simplify the work of giving the pieces a certain shape.

The process of making a hamburger from plasticine takes place in 5 stages:

1. Take the brown piece and mix it with the yellow one. The result should be a light shade, corresponding to the color of the buns. It needs to be rolled into a ball, pressed down slightly and cut into 2 halves. You will get 2 buns.
2. Make cutlets. To do this, mix brown with black. Roll the resulting piece into a ball and press. To make the cutlet look realistic, it needs to be roughened. Use a knife for this.
3. Shape a lettuce leaf. You need to roll a piece of green plasticine into a thin layer. For one hamburger you will need 2 lettuce leaves.
4. Make cheese. Make 2 flat cakes from the yellow piece. Make several holes in them with a knife.
5. Combine all the molded parts of the hamburger into a single composition. First, place one of the buns with the convex side down, put cheese on it, then a lettuce leaf. Do the same with the 2nd bun. Now you have the same top and bottom parts of the hamburger. Place the cutlet on one of the lettuce leaves and connect both parts. After connecting, press lightly so that the dish does not fall apart.

The hamburger looks no less appetizing than the real one, but to make it even more realistic, the top can be decorated with sesame. To do this, take a piece of beige or white plasticine. Make small seeds from it, similar to sesame. All that remains is to fix them on the surface.

Meat on the grill

To make a toy shashlik, you need to take:

• plasticine;
• a few matches;
• a small cardboard box.

The sculpting process takes place in 6 stages:

1. Take the box and cut off unnecessary closing elements. Make recesses in which the skewers will be located.
2. To decorate the box, use thin plates molded from plasticine. It is important not to forget to make indentations for the skewers.
3. Make the legs of the grill from matches wrapped in plasticine. You will need 4 of them.
4. The meat is made of brown plasticine. Matches will act as skewers. In addition to the meat, there should be onions on the skewers: make them out of white plasticine. To do this, take several small pieces and roll them into circles.
5. Make coals. Use red and black plasticine for this: the first will symbolize smoldering coals, and the second - extinguished coals. Cut both into small pieces and place in the grill.
   
6. Place the skewers on the grill.

Candies

One of the children's favorite treats is candy, especially chocolate. To make them, you will need 2 pieces of plasticine. One of them is brown, it will be an analogue of chocolate, the second is white, it will be fondant.

Children like it when there are lots of candies, so it is better to immediately divide a piece of brown plasticine into several portions. Knead each portion, and then give it the shape of a particular candy, for example, a round elongated bar, a hemisphere or a truncated pyramid. For variety, you can make several types at once.

Using a knife, notches are made on the surface of the candy, and white plasticine, which acts as nougat, is applied on top in strips.
You can wrap the candies in candy wrappers, then it will be impossible to distinguish them from the real thing.

Donuts

The donuts should be golden brown and glazed, so when making them from plasticine, use orange, yellow and brown pieces.

Their production is as follows:

1. Mix yellow and brown plasticine. The result should be a mass similar in color to fried dough.
2. To make 2 donuts of different shapes, divide the mass into 2 equal parts: roll the 1st part into a ball, and the 2nd part into a sausage.
3. Press the ball down so that it flattens out a little.
4. Take yellow plasticine and attach it to the top of the donuts: for the round one, make a round flat cake, for the elongated one, an elongated one.
5. Pull the sausage into a ring and spread plasticine in the place where the parts are connected.
6. Make a hole in a round product. You can use a pen or felt-tip pen for this.

For decoration, chocolate glaze can be replaced with a thin thread of brown plasticine, and small pieces of brightly colored plasticine will work well as marmalade.

Bananas

Food made from plasticine, which can be molded in such a way that it is difficult to distinguish from the real thing, differs only in size.

For example, a toy bunch of bananas from plasticine can be made as follows:

1. Take yellow plasticine and a little brown for the base.
2. Using a special knife, cut the yellow piece into small portions, each of which will later become a banana.
3. Mash each yellow piece and roll into a ball.
4. Roll each resulting ball into a sausage. Narrow the pieces at both ends.
5. Collect all the bananas into 1 bunch.
6. Make several small balls from brown plasticine, the number of which should be equal to the number of bananas in the bunch.
7. Each ball, molded from pieces of brown plasticine, is attached to the opposite end of the banana from the common attachment.
8. To make a bundle, squeeze the product at the base. Also attach the brown one here in the form of a strip.

The resulting bananas will be a great treat for toy monkeys and elephants.

Multicolored lollipops

Lollipops can be round, oval, or have an intricate shape. For example, you can make a cockerel on a stick. The easiest option is a round candy. Its production will take the least amount of time. To make a plasticine candy, you should take white and several other colors. It is desirable that there are 2 contrasting shades.

Preparation:

1. Roll the white and brightest pieces into thin threads.
2. Braid these 2 threads into a pigtail.
3. Twist the resulting structure into a spiral.
4. Attach a stick to the finished candy. A regular match can serve as a stick.

Another option for making bright candy is the following:

1. Take 2 pieces of plasticine, one of which is white.
2. Just as in the above case, roll the pieces into threads.
3. The resulting 2 threads are tightly connected to each other so that there are no gaps between them.
4. Roll the product into a spiral and attach a stick.

To make caramel, you need to take larger pieces and make 2 thick rolls out of them. You won't need white here, it's better to choose the brightest shades. Both pieces are rolled into sausages, then they are twisted, and the lollipop is ready.

Cupcakes

Cupcakes can be different: the brighter the colors, the better. First, a biscuit base is created, and then everything is decorated with cream on top. In addition to the actual plasticine, you can use beads or rhinestones. They will also play the role of decorations.

The preparation consists of the following stages:

1. To create the biscuit base, take a piece of yellow or orange plasticine, for the cream - pink or purple.
2. Make cups from yellow balls. To do this, simply press them with your fingers from all sides. Apply longitudinal notches to the surface of these cups, which will give the structure of the cake ribbedness.
3. Roll pieces of bright flowers into thin threads.
4. Twist the resulting threads into spirals so that they resemble caps in shape. For one cupcake, you can use not one, but several multi-colored threads. This way, the product will turn out beautiful and appetizing.
5. Combine the bright cap with the yellow base. The cupcakes are ready.

If you wish, you can decorate the product with beads or rhinestones.

Macaroons

The popular sweet called macaroons looks delicious and makes you want to eat this wonderful confection. To make macaroons from plasticine, you will need several multi-colored pieces, as well as a toothpick.

The following colors are used in this example:

• pink;
• yellow;
• white;
• blue;
• violet.

Manufacturing stages:

1. Roll the balls and press them into flat cakes. Make 2 flat cakes of each color, the same size. The white, pink and yellow ones will become the cream layers.
2. Connect 2 flat cakes of the same color and place cream layers between them.
3. Use a toothpick to process the sides of the top and bottom parts.
4. Press the plasticine several times in the places where the upper main flat cakes are connected to the interlayer. If necessary, you can press it down with your palm.

Making food from plasticine is a great activity for developing a child’s fine motor skills and creative thinking, as well as introducing them to work and aesthetic perception.

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