Clay is removed from the ground in already known places. In central Russia, this natural fossil material can be found almost everywhere. The clay must first sit for several months in a large container. It is necessary to periodically add water to it and cover it with film on top for relative tightness.
Take the soaked clay, spread it on a piece of cloth and dry it. Then break the pieces with a hammer until sand flows, having first placed them in burlap. Sift the clay sand through a sieve.
Fill with water again in a ratio of 1:2 for one day. Take out the clay and, placing it on a flat surface, dry it until it is workable.
Whistle bird
In order to make a craft, you will need:
- prepared clay;
- bake;
- sticks, stacks.
Our ancestors in every village knew how to make a clay whistle to please the children. The technology has not been lost, but the craft is being revived, and today you can buy popular clay toys in many stores. You can make this Gorodets whistle yourself.
- Roll into a ball the size of a chicken egg. Make a dent in the center with your thumb.
- Wrap a clay pancake around your finger. Without removing, form the head of our craft.
- Remove the blank from your finger and carefully connect the edges of the hole, keeping the cavity inside the toy.
- Smooth the sides of the whistle with wet fingers.
- Cut a hole at the bottom of the tail.
- Place the stick along the hole and place the clay patch over it.
- Check the whistle for musical quality. They can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the size of the holes.
- Now begins the sculpting of the decorative parts of the toy, using water as glue. Sculpt the paws for better stability, the comb, beak and eyes. Apply a pattern on the wings in a stack.
- Make two small through holes on the sides to be able to change the key of the melody and extract not only sound, but also music.
- Smooth out any rough edges with a damp sponge, leave to dry for 3-4 hours, and then bake in an oven at 800°C for 8 hours.
- After firing, the whistle may slightly change its pitch.
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Master class on the topic “Making a clay whistle”
MBU DO "DSHI" MO "Sengileevsky district"
Teacher: Danilina Rimma Gennadievna
Making a clay whistle. Master Class.
Target:
teach how to make a whistle. Task: to achieve sound extraction. Equipment: clay, modeling tools.
Master class plan
: 1. Preparing everything necessary for modeling. 2. Explanation of the topic of the master class. 3. Practical work of master class participants together with the leader. 4. Techniques and methods of sculpting: kneading, rolling, dividing into parts, stretching, decorating, drilling holes, making sound, smoothing. 5. Summing up
Content
From literary sources it is known that the oldest toy that has survived to this day is ceramic. Making clay toys is a special branch of pottery that still exists today. Made by folk craftsmen, these products amaze with their simplicity and expressiveness. Russian ceramic toys have gained great popularity: Filimonovsky, Dymkovsky, Kargopolsky, Abashevsky
etc. In practice, this craft is widespread in many countries of the world. The process of making a whistle toy is individual for each craftsman, so there is no single technology. But making a whistle toy introduces children to world culture, helps develop perseverance, perseverance, artistic taste, and develops hand motor skills. To work you will need clay, tools, water, rags.
Material
Like all ceramics, whistles are made from ceramic mass (or clay dough). The main composition of the ceramic mass is clay. In nature, it is found very often in various colors, but, as a rule, when fired, its color changes to red or white. Hence the name - red-burning and white-burning. The most widespread is the red-burning one. This is perhaps the most common material on Earth. Layers of clay often come to the surface along the banks of rivers, lakes and ravine slopes. It can be found even in the city when digging pits for building a house or when repairing water pipelines. But natural (or living clay) cannot always be used for making ceramic products, because... it often contains impurities: sand, small stones, etc.
Clay that has undergone a certain technological preparation process for making pottery is called ceramic mass or clay dough. At industrial enterprises, complex machines are used for these purposes: ball mills, screens, presses, etc. But to prepare it in small quantities, you can use simplified technology. buy in online stores.
Tools and accessories
The main tools for sculpting are the hands of the master. But special ones will also be required. These include a needle, birdie, tubes and stamps.
Modeling and decorating the “Bird” whistle
1. Take a piece of prepared clay dough and shape it into a ball with a diameter of 40-50mm
2. Holding the workpiece in the palm of your left hand, make a depression with your right thumb and expand it to form a cavity with a wall thickness of about 10 mm
3. Continuing to hold the workpiece with your left hand, smoothing movements of the thumb of your right hand away from you, pull out the clay, while simultaneously turning the workpiece around the entire perimeter of the cavity
4. Connect the walls of the cavity and form a mouthpiece
5. Using a birdie, we pierce a hole in the mouthpiece so that its end comes out to the surface at a certain angle at a distance of 20-30 mm from the mouth.
6. Carefully pull out the birdie and use a tube with a diameter of 8-10 mm to pierce a hole into the cavity of the whistle in the place where the end of the birdie came to the surface. Now we take out the tube along with the clay plug that has formed in it, which we push out with a blunt wooden stick.
7. Let's start setting up the whistle. Using a needle, we cut off a layer of clay from the outer and inner parts of the edge of the hole formed by the tube, so that a sharp wedge is obtained. In this case, you need to thoroughly clean the cavity of the whistle from lumps of clay using a needle. In a properly made whistle, the channel formed by the birdie should be opposite the tip of the wedge. Let's check the sound of the whistle. To change the tone of the sound, we pierce holes with a tube with a diameter of 3-4 mm into the cavity of the whistle. By closing and opening these holes with your fingers, you will hear an iridescent whistle.
8. Having made the whistle, let's start sculpting the symbolic bird. Let's make blanks for the head and legs, give the whistle the shape of the body. Having brushed the mating surfaces with slip (a solution of clay in water until creamy), we connect the parts and smooth out the joints with our fingers.
9. We decorate our product (after letting it dry a little) by pressing stamps into the wet clay.
Drying
The process lasts 3-5 days (depending on the ambient temperature and the weight of the product). A dried whistle acquires a certain strength.
Burning
Firing is the last and most important operation. Errors during firing lead to irreparable defects: cracks, chips, charring, etc. There are many methods of firing, but for school conditions the most suitable is in a muffle furnace.
Kostroma cockerel
The manufacturing principle is the same, with the exception of a few nuances:
- fine lines of drawing, characteristic patterns and elegance of processing;
- raw materials – red clay;
- applying glaze.
To decorate a clay toy with glaze, double firing is required. The first preliminary lasts 1 hour at a temperature of 200°C. Next, a layer of glaze is applied to the clay, and the craft is again placed in the oven for several hours.
Glaze is a glass alloy (expanded clay), which is best purchased in a store. By the way, it is not necessary to apply it to the entire surface. You can get creative and make a design on the whistle with icing.
Dymkovo toys
These clay crafts are known all over the world. Whistles are made in the same way as others, but they differ in cheerful colors. Traditionally, baked clay in the village of Dymkovo was painted with tempera and natural dyes, made with milk and eggs. Now you can easily replace them with acrylic paints. After sculpting and firing are completed, pick up a brush and paint the Dymkovo whistle, not forgetting that the main background should be white.
- Karina Samoilova:
04/29/2015 at 20:00
I had a dream as a child to have such a whistle... years passed, and I still didn’t have it. I’ve never sculpted with clay, but I want to make my childhood dream come true)
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- Yuri Gorniy:
04/30/2015 at 03:44
Karina, the main thing is to start, and you will succeed)
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- Tatiana:
04/30/2015 at 10:52
It’s a pity, I can’t do it with the scroll, I’m doing it, we’re getting some clay, I guess I need to find a good tool for me.
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- Yuri Gorniy:
04/30/2015 at 12:26
The main thing is to have a thin, even spatula. As an option, you can make it from a blade for a hacksaw for metal - it will be guaranteed to be the same thickness.
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- Anonymous:
04/03/2018 at 09:23
Try to make the hole round.
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- Olga Ushakova:
06/22/2015 at 10:12
LITTLE BIRDS from FAIRY TALES!!!;)) and what did you color them with?))
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- Yuri Gorniy:
06/24/2015 at 16:59
These are acrylic paints. You can use engobe - this is a kind of colored clay. Engobe is applied before firing, and paints are applied after.
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- Svetlana:
10/28/2015 at 11:17
Let's do it with the children in a circle. Thanks for the detailed explanations!
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- Anonymous:
12/09/2016 at 18:46
Well written, I want to try it right away. Thank you.
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- Anonymous:
12/22/2016 at 14:39
Thanks, all worked well! Very accessible and understandable.
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- Irina:
03/21/2017 at 19:09
Thank you very much for this wonderful master class. Accessible and understandable!) I got it all right away :) good luck to you and success in your creativity :)
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- Yuri Gorniy:
03/22/2017 at 05:54
Thank you)
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- Arkady:
06/26/2017 at 15:07
I took sushi chopsticks. I sharpened them with a knife as needed and sanded them with fine sandpaper. Excellent tool for this kind of work!!!
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- Galina:
02/21/2018 at 04:04
I don’t know where to get clay and I want to try to make a bird.
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- Yuri Gorniy:
02/21/2018 at 06:02
Galina, clay is a thing that can be found everywhere) For example, on the river bank. In craft stores they sell ready-made mass or in powder, for example, “Blue Sorceress” in small packs. If you need more, you can buy it in the online store.
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- Natalia:
02/28/2018 at 12:06
Thank you! I’ll definitely try it and I just bought the clay.
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- Anonymous:
09.21.2019 at 18:00
Please tell me, how can you burn a clay toy in the oven at home? Is 230-250 degrees enough?
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- Yuri Gorniy:
09.22.2019 at 05:30
Ordinary clay is fired at a temperature of about 1000 degrees, the beginning of sintering is somewhere around 600. You can try firing it in a fire or in a wood-burning stove, for example, in a sauna. Just first wrap the product in some cloth and put it in a tin can so that the heating is not very sharp. There are also many different non-firing self-hardening masses on sale now; there are also those that are baked in the oven - they can be found in office supply stores. Good luck!)
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- Irina:
10/30/2020 at 06:06
Thanks to the manager for the interesting site, you can always find a lot of useful things!
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