Step-by-step instructions with photos on how to make a sitting cat from plasticine
A cute sitting cat that will be interesting to sculpt for children in the older group or even younger.
How to make a plasticine cat for children with your own hands step by step:
- Roll and flatten the ball a little - the head and shape the muzzle.
- Make two triangles - ears.
- Add wire whiskers.
- Form a large cone for the body.
- Roll two balls for the front paws and two drops for the back paws.
- Assemble the body and draw the legs and claws.
The animal's paws are outlined with three rather than two lines.
Video master classes on how to sculpt a sitting cat
Kitten Woof
As part of the next instruction, we will try to consider in detail how to make a cat known to all children named Woof. To prevent this kind of plasticine modeling for 3- and 4-year-old children from seeming boring, watch your favorite Soviet cartoon with this cat before class.
When you are ready for the sculpting process, start selecting the material. What you will need:
- plasticine in the required proportions;
- stack for obtaining the necessary parts and giving them the required shape;
- a wooden board or sheet of paper to protect the work surface.
Before starting, be sure to warm up and knead the material so that it is easier for your child to work with it. How to make a cat Woof from plasticine:
(Step 1)
- Take a light brown or orange shade of plasticine and roll it into a ball. We flatten the resulting figure by carefully pressing it to the working plane. We get an oval from the ball.
- Now you need a shade slightly darker than the previous one. We make a cake out of it. We attach the resulting workpiece to the previously obtained oval.
- Roll out a ball from the same dark color. It is needed for the animal's face. Trim the edges of the figure and smooth the joints to eliminate any visible seams.
Kitten Woof (Step 2) - We continue to design the cat's face. We make a spout on the sharp part. We form the cat's ears; they should have a triangular shape. We attach them to the head. We make the eyes using light brown pancakes. The middle of them can be made black. Add blue details and white droplets to the black background to highlight the eyes. Attach the made eyes to their proper place.
- In order for our kitten to sit, we make something like a cushion out of light brown material. Gently flatten one side to form a flat surface. On the contrary, we make the second side pointed in order to attach it to the head in the future.
- Let's finish the job. We carefully draw the fingers on the animal’s paws. Forming the cat's tail.
- Attach the torso to the head. For a more secure attachment to the body, you can insert the list and place the head on the protruding edge. Attach the tail made earlier to the cat.
The work is ready, you have learned how to make a cartoon cat from plasticine. The pet turned out to be charming and is unlikely to leave a child or an adult indifferent. And if you use your imagination and remember the plot of the cartoon, then the kitten needs to finish the cutlet so that he eats it. You can place such a toy in your collection of crafts, for example, next to a plasticine hedgehog.
Black cat
The cat that lives in the house will become a visual aid. If there is no pet in the apartment, you can sculpt a figurine step by step following the instructions.
To sculpt a black cat from plasticine you need to prepare:
- mass of primary color;
- small pieces of white, pink and green plasticine;
- stack.
Modeling a kitten step by step:
- For work we take a black block.
- Using a tool, we divide the material into 3 parts of different sizes. The first part will be small, the last will be the largest.
- From a small piece we make a thin long tail, after kneading the mass in our hands. For the head, roll a ball from a medium-sized piece.
- For the front part of the muzzle we use white plasticine tablets. We connect the circles together in the form of cheeks, and stick a pink nose between them.
- We make 3 thin antennae on each side and attach them to the cheeks.
- We smooth out a large piece of plasticine and press it down, forming a long plate. Using a stack, cut the workpiece on both sides and move the shoots to the side. It turns out the body and 4 legs of a kitten.
- We bend the central part so that the hind legs are down and the front legs are extended forward. Cut out the fingers using a stack. We attach triangular ears to the cat’s head from plasticine.
- On the muzzle we glue the cheeks with a mustache and nose. The figurine details are ready.
- We stick the head in front. Bend the tail or leave it sticking out like a pipe.
Children will be delighted by a cat made of plasticine, which sits on its hind legs and stretches its front legs forward.
Cat and cute kittens from plasticine: making a family
How to make a cat with kittens from plasticine:
- Cut a long sausage at both ends to highlight the legs.
- Bend the workpiece into the shape of the body.
- Attach the ponytail.
- Roll out a ball-head, use your fingers to separate triangles-ears from it and slightly extend the nose part.
- Decorate the muzzle with voluminous details or paints and add a mustache.
- Form small kittens from plump sausages, outlining the neck line and extending long tails.
For kids in the older group, for whom it is easy to sculpt such a figurine, it is worth offering to invent and make an older cat and kitten.
Other examples of sculpting cat families
To make plasticine kittens and cat figures more accurate, the surface of the parts is smoothed with wet fingers.
Basics of working with plasticine: how to get started
Before making a cat out of plasticine, you should prepare the material of the desired color; if such a block is not in the box, you can mix several different pieces.
The most convenient way to start sculpting any parts is by rolling balls, which are subsequently given the desired shape. To draw fingers or fur on a plasticine craft, it is better to prepare toothpicks in advance - the stack may be too thick for neat lines (it is also convenient to attach the figure’s head to them so that it holds more securely). Antennae can be easily made from pieces of wire or pine needles, and beads can be installed instead of eyes.
If you mix pieces of different colors (for example, orange, black and white), not completely, you will get the original three-color color of the animal.
Ginger cat
The sign says that a ginger cat brings good luck to the owner.
To make a figure from plasticine, prepare a place and the necessary tools:
- orange plasticine;
- additional colors - yellow, green - for eyes, brown, white or any other colors - for decorations;
- match;
- stack - a plastic knife for work.
Modeling a cat from plasticine consists of the following steps:
- Take a brick of orange material for the body. You will need 3 times less white plasticine; parts are made from it.
- Roll an oval out of the red-colored mass and pull the workpiece out on one side. You will get a long neck. We insert a match into it to secure the cat's face. We slightly bend the shape to get a figurine of a sitting animal. We attach a small white spot on the cat’s chest - it will be like a tie for the cat. Using a special knife, we make small grooves that imitate animal fur.
- We form 2 orange tablets for the bent hind legs and secure them on both sides of the body. At the bottom we attach small white plasticine pads.
- We twist 2 orange tubes for the cat's front legs. We expand them at the ends.
- We make the head in the shape of a flattened diamond. We make triangular ears from 2 miniature orange tablets.
- We attach the front legs to the cat's body. They should be about the same level. We make a tail and attach it to the body. We glue a white plasticine mustache, cheeks and a pink nose to the head.
- We attach the ears to the head. We cut strips on the mustache with a stack. To get slanted cat eyes, we stick green pupils to oval shapes made of white material. We fix the eyes on the muzzle.
- We connect the head to the body with a match.
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