Master class on how to make children's mastic figures
English mastic figures

Master class on how to make children’s mastic figures

Dario Cantu

Children’s mastic figures are usually characters from favorite cartoons. Among the huge number of fairies, animals, robots and cars, the heroes of the cartoon will be ideal for the novice sculptor.

The characters of your favorite cartoons will delight your little one.

First, the mastic is painted in the desired color (or colors), then roll out of it a ball-body, and then act as follows:

Bunny Krosh. For the arms and legs, roll two harnesses, each of them cut in half and make with a stack or an ordinary toothpick to separate the fingers. From the two wide strips form the ears. Then it remains only to make a face, gluing white mastic eyes and blue – eyebrows, draw pupils and a smile.

Lamb. Roll thin plaits, make them into curls and glue them with food glue or egg white. Arms and legs to mold similar to Krosh’s feet, but make hooves on the ends. Make horns from darker sticks of mastic. Make a face.

Hedgehog. Roll small balls of blue mastic, give them the shape of cones, needles and glue on the spherical body. Make the hands and feet, as for the bunny. Add glasses, eyebrows, nose, ears, smile and you have a Hedgehog.

Nyusha. First, you can make cheeks, hearts and feet like for Barash. From a small balloon to form a nose-foot by making two cavities in it with a toothpick. Weave and glue pigtail hairstyle, make face.