The elephant is a symbol of happiness and wealth. In this article we will tell you how to make an elephant. Material for modeling you can choose the most different - plasticine, mastic, polymer clay or salted dough. But if you are new to modeling, then it is strongly recommended that you take plasticine, since it is cheap and more convenient to use.

The easiest elephant of plasticine

To dazzle the most simple elephant, youIt will take a lot of weight to sculpt black, white (or beige) and blue. Black plasticine is needed for the eyes, white for tusks, and blue for the body. Blue plasticine, if desired, can be replaced with gray or even pink.

First, take a large piece of blueplasticine and make a ball of it. Give it a little elongated shape. Then make four balls for the legs, two for the ears and one for the trunk. Also make a small thin sausage for the tail. Make four legs out of four balls. Two balls flatten in flat cakes. Ears turned out!

Then stick the legs, ears, trunk and tail to the body. Carefully coat the seams with your finger. From black plasticine, make two small eyes. From white make two sausages. Slightly bend them and stick them under the trunk. An elephant of plasticine is ready!

A more complex model

You will need a lot to sculpt the gray,dark gray, pink and black. First make two gray balls. Give one ball a little elongated shape. It turned out the trunk and head. Stick the head to the body. Then make of gray plasticine six more small balls. From four make the legs, and two more - the ears. Ears should be oval. Blind the sausage and stick it to the head. The trunk turned out. Steck draw the details of the trunk elephant. From the dark gray plasticine, make small circles and cut them in half. Stick them to the legs of the elephant.

Then from the pink mass for modeling, do firstthick cake, and then cut out of her heart. Draw a pattern around the edges of the heart. Arrange the heart as you see in the photo. Next, take a dry pastel of pink color and rastolkite it into powder. Brush pastel on the ears and cheeks of an elephant. Now your craft is made of plasticine. The elephant is ready!

Drawing with clay

There is a separate type of creativity - drawingclay. First you need to take a piece of paper and draw a picture on it. Then take the necessary colors of clay. For example, for the image below, you will need a lot to sculpt the yellow, orange, gray, white, black, pink, purple, pink and green colors. First you must lay out the background. Then gently with the help of a stack - the figure of the elephant itself. Then blind white tusks, pink mouth and black eye. Next, put a purple clay cap. On top of the vine pink flowers with green petals. And, at last, clothe the hat with a yellow strip. An elephant of plasticine is ready!

How to make a craft more durable

Now you know how to make an elephant of plasticine.But if you are not satisfied with the strength of the resulting crafts, you can make a figure with a wire base. First you need to make a base (the so-called skeleton of the future figure). Then clothe the base with plasticine of the required color. Give special attention to small things, and the elephant can turn out like a real one. A ready-made figure can be shaded with shadows or dry pastel, and also varnished. So an elephant made of plasticine will not attract dust to itself, and it can be wiped.

Papier mache

In addition, you can make a base fromplasticine, and then make it a paper copy. First, blind an elephant, and then glue it with newspapers or kraft paper. To make the article work, you need to glue an elephant from three to eight times. Wait until the elephant dries, then cut it in half and pull out all the clay. Glue the figure and re-seal it several times with paper. After drying, the figure can be painted!