Everyone has been familiar with Ivan Andreevich Krylov’s fable “The Crow and the Fox” since childhood. Any small child loves to watch and listen to this fable “The Crow and the Fox”. Thanks to this fairy tale, children will carry a special love for the characters of the fairy tale: the Crow and the cunning Fox throughout their entire lives. Today’s topic is modeling from plasticine the character of the fable “The Crow and the Fox” - the Crow. For work you will need: plasticine, a plasticine knife, toothpicks (it is recommended to use them as an internal “skeleton” or holding support) and a little of your imagination (see picture)

Some elements may seem difficult to children, so it is better for parents to guide the modeling process.

1. Prepare balls and cylinders

2. We sculpt the beak, tail, insert the fastening frame (toothpicks)

3.Collecting the crow

4. The crow is ready

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. Making a Crow from plasticine Step 1

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. Making a Crow from plasticine Step 2

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. We sculpt a Crow from plasticine. Front view

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. We sculpt a Crow from plasticine. View from above

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. We sculpt a Crow from plasticine. Side view

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. We sculpt a Crow from plasticine. View of Crow with cheese

5. The cheese fell out

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. Fox, Crow Cheese. The cheese fell out

6. She flew up onto the spruce...

7. Or maybe she climbed up a palm tree with a running start...

The fable “Plasticine Crow”, a modification of the interpretation of the fable “The Crow and the Fox”. A crow climbed up a palm tree

8. And then the Fox ran

Fable “The Crow and the Fox”. And then the fox ran...

How the cartoon "Plasticine Crow" was created aslan wrote in June 14th, 2016

The cartoon “Plasticine Crow” for director Alexander Tatarsky and composer Grigory Gladkov is a happy occasion and a creative emblem. Eduard Uspensky wrote the poems in five minutes, Gladkov picked the melody in half an hour, and Tatarsky believed that the entire script was simply dictated to him from above. Now, 35 years later, “Plasticine Crow” can be called a long-liver among cartoons.

Today is a story about the creation of the legendary cartoon.

In 1978, aspiring director Alexander Tatarsky was young, lived in Kyiv and did not even dream that he would be allowed to make his own cartoon before he grew old, such was the tradition then. The Olympics were just approaching. All Moscow TV was in a tizzy because they were given the task of making animated screensavers for all sports, but nothing good came of it.
Tatarsky happened to be in Moscow and said: “Come on, I’ll do it with my left hand.” He was left in the capital and he fixed all the screensavers. As a reward, he was offered to make any animated film.

Tatarsky, without hesitation, decided to turn to the most popular children's writer, Eduard Uspensky. The author of Cheburashka had a poem “Once upon a time there was a little elephant, but maybe not a little elephant...”. The director found an extraordinary solution - to make a picture out of plasticine to emphasize the game of uncertainty that was in the text. However, a cartoon based on this poem by Uspensky had already been made, and the authorities categorically forbade creating a new one.

I was upset, Uspensky went to the dacha,” Tatarsky recalls, “and a day later he suddenly brought me a crumpled piece of paper (apparently he wrote it on the train), where there was another poem - “Or maybe a crow, or maybe a dog...” He I just took the same technique and played around with Krylov’s famous fable “The Crow and the Fox.” I read the poems and realized that I would make a cartoon based on them.

Plasticine technology was still unknown in the Union at that time. Later, Tatarsky and his comrades learned that similar cartoons had been made before them in the Czech Republic and Canada, but then nothing was known about these works in the USSR. So director Tatarsky and production designer Igor Kovalev came up with their own technology: they made a half-volume Picture on glass from the most ordinary children's plasticine bought in a store. Then the image was gradually smeared, removing each stroke. And then they ran the film in the opposite direction - and a living picture miraculously took shape in the frame from a shapeless jumble of colors.

The creation of the cartoon took about 800 kg of Soviet plasticine, which had to be painted with paints due to its faded colors.

The director decided to entrust the composition of the music to a non-professional singer Grigory Gladkov, whom he had previously met on vacation in Crimea.
“I met Alexander Tatarsky in Koktebel,” recalls Gladkov. - I sang on the beach for friends, and he liked my ballads. When work began on “The Plasticine Crow,” I was called to Moscow from Leningrad, where I lived. I arrived, they gave me poetry, I immediately composed two more songs, and we went to the artistic council. I was not yet a member of the Union of Composers, and the music editor tried to remove me. She shouted that they already had an “adventurer with a guitar” - Sergei Nikitin, who wrote the music for the cartoon “ A big secret for a small company,” and that she wouldn’t allow it a second time. But Tatarsky and Uspensky defended me.

The cartoon includes three stories based on songs by Grigory Gladkov. The first is called “About Paintings.” There are concepts of “portrait”, “still life”, “landscape”, etc. are explained using the example of plasticine copies of paintings by great masters - “La Gioconda” by da Vinci, “Girls with Peaches” by Serov.

The second plot is “The Game”, where pictures from plasticine replace each other when the hero closes and opens his eyes. The authors decided to make it in retro style and dedicate it to their parents. Well, the third is the well-known “crow” from the poem “Or maybe, or maybe.” All three parts of the cartoon are united by one minor character - an old woman with a carpet beater.

The author himself, Gladkov, sang about the paintings. The “Crow” song was entrusted to be performed by Lev Shimelov and Alexander Levenbuk, popular at that time presenters of the children’s humorous radio program “Radio Nanny”. And for “The Game,” Tatarsky and Gladkov invited Leonid Bronevoy (as it turned out, the actor began his creative career in operetta).

The song of the third part of the cartoon was initially supposed to sound at a normal tempo, but in the recording Tatarsky did not track the timing of the sound, which is why instead of the required 5 minutes for the created animation, it ended up being 8 minutes. The director didn't know what to do; While there was no decision, the votes were recorded. In the editing room, Tatarsky accidentally heard how the gramophone recording of Lenin’s speech was being restored - the sound speed was sometimes faster, sometimes slower.

The director asked the restorer how it turns out. The technology was simple - an insulating tape was wound onto the tone shaft of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, which caused the film to be fed to the playback head faster, and the sound tempo also accelerated. Realizing that this was a way out of the situation, Alexander Tatarsky, having paid the restorer 70 rubles, compressed the 8-minute recording to the required 5 minutes, as a result of which the song acquired its famous “cartoon” sound.

The main part of the melody in the third part of the cartoon (“Or maybe, or maybe...”) is a slightly modified verse of the Irish folk song Whiskey in the Jar, the “bridge” in its middle part (“But then the fox ran, or maybe didn’t run...” ) is a quote from George Harrison's song "My Sweet Lord". The melody was also used in the song of the junior minister for the film “Tales of the Old Wizard”.

Here the high authorities gave a complete scolding: “Why was it allowed that Gruppenführer Müller sings in a Soviet cartoon - don’t you remember that the actor played a Gestapo man in “Seventeen Moments of Spring”?!

“The Plasticine Crow” was banned as soon as it appeared, not only because Müller was involved in it, but also because the cartoon turned out to be “ideologically unprincipled.”
“There was a big scandal,” says Tatarsky. - And, of course, I understood that I had made a great movie, but when they said that the film should be washed off and the director sent back to Kyiv... In general, I was in a pre-heart attack state.

The cartoon was saved by Kinopanorama directors Ksenia Marinina and Eldar Ryazanov. They brazenly aired “The Crow” along with a story about how this cartoon was made. Since no one was fired after this, the next day “The Plasticine Crow” was shown on all channels, and Tatarsky became famous.

Soon, “Plasticine Crow” was sent to the All-Union TV Festival, where the film unexpectedly won the main prize. The director was not even invited to the festival, although according to existing rules he had to present his work at the competition. Tatarsky learned about his victory only on TV.

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Crows are fairly large black birds. These familiar birds appear in cities with the first frosts. Sometimes there are so many of these birds that the flying flocks cover the sky. They croak confidently and fly overhead. Someone is afraid of crows and treats them as evil spirits However, these birds living next to us certainly bring benefits. If you read a fairy tale in which Baba Yaga or a witch is present, then a crow will definitely live with her. We invite you to make this bird out of plasticine together with your child, and how to do this, see below.

Prepare a crow for sculpting:

• plasticine in black and gray colors;
• stack;
• matches (nails, toothpicks).

Stages of sculpting a crow:

From a set of bright plasticine you will only need black and a little gray. Crows can also have pearlescent plumage with blue or purple tints, so if one bar isn't enough for you, mix black with blue or purple. The bird is sculpted in a standard manner. It is necessary to highlight the tail and wings, show thin legs and make a beak.

Knead the large black block until soft and immediately proceed to forming the body and tail.

Make an oval piece by smoothing the surface of the black mass. Pull one side out with your fingers, showing a sharp tail.

In front (on the wider part) add an additional soft black ball. Spread the plasticine from the ball onto the body, stretching the mixture with your fingers. This trick will help show off the feathering on the neck.

Make a fairly powerful beak for the bird from gray plasticine. Crows have a very strong beak; they even crack nuts with it.

And two more black balls will be needed to create wings. Press the soft pieces onto a hard surface. Then pull out the resulting cake in the form of a drop so that you get a wing.

Stacked plumage should be shown on each wing. Apply random stripes in the form of a mesh.

Also decorate the feathers on the neck and tail. Make notches with the tip of the stack.

Glue the wings on the sides. The details made earlier will allow you to simulate folded wings. To make a flying crow, the shape of the wings will have to be modified.

Paws should be added to the figurine's abdomen. First apply small black protrusions. Then you can attach halves of matches or carnations with gray legs to them. These parts must be very thin, so that the soft plasticine can withstand a sufficiently large mass; it is necessary to use fasteners.

And the last little touch is the eyes. Although the crow's eyes are very dark and cannot be seen against the general background of the plumage, the eyes are still worth showing. Attach two small gray plasticine droplets and use a match to make indentations in them - pupils. Also, instead of plasticine, beads are suitable at this stage.

Ekaterina Miklukhina

Artistic and aesthetic activities(modeling) « Crows» in second younger group

Program content: To consolidate children’s knowledge about wintering birds - crow. Introduce techniques sculpting: pinching, pulling. Teach children to connect parts by pressing them together. Develop fine motor skills, attention, coherent speech, creativity in work, develop aesthetic perception. Cultivate independence, perseverance, accuracy.

Preliminary work: observation black, Location on kindergarten. Note its size, its habits, what it is covered with crow -(with feathers,. Read the poem. Examine the illustration.

Progress of the lesson

Make a riddle

Strong, big bird

He's not even afraid of cats.

Very important person -

Black and gray. (Crow)

E. Grudanov

Educator: Guys, she came to us today Crow Karkusha, let's look at the illustration crows.

Educator: Children, let's remember the body parts of a bird and call them out loud their: head, beak, wings, tail, paws. (A game "say it quietly and loudly"- practice the strength of your voice)

Educator: Who can tell me how he screams? crow? What color is it? What is it covered with? (children's answers)

Educator: That's right guys, crow screams loudly KAR-KAR, it is covered with feathers and their color is gray-black.

Educator: Children, crow Is this a wintering bird or a migratory one? (children's answer)

Educator: Once, you all know, name some other wintering birds. (children's answers)

Reading a poem

Crow. Here crow sitting on the fence.

All the barns have been locked for a long time.

All the convoys have passed, all the carts have passed,

It's time for bad weather.

She's fussing about on the fence.

Woe to her. Real grief!

It's not like he doesn't have a grain crows.

And there is no defense against the cold.

N. Rubtsov

Educator: Well done! Now let's get to work. Let's all try together and sculpt little ones out of plasticine. blacken. I will show you, and you watch carefully and try to do it yourself.

After completing the work, invite the children to play a game « Crows»

(Children pretend crow, and an adult reads poetry).

The crows are fast asleep,

Everyone is sitting in their nests,

And they will wake up at dawn - They will croak in the yard. (According to the text, crows, squat down, bow their heads, close their eyes. To the last words of the text they wake up and pronounce: “Kar-kar-kar!”, then fly, wave "wings"). The adult accompanies their actions with words.

Let's fly, fly, Kar-kar, Kar-kar! - they began to sing.

Tanya came out onto the path, and sprinkles crumbs to the crows.

The crows were flying, Everyone pecked every single crumb.

Knock-knock-knock, knock-knock-knock, They knocked with their beaks. ( Crows-children squat down and tap their fingers, pronouncing: "Knock-Knock!"). An adult takes the dog and speaks:

Tuzik was walking around the yard, and he scared the raven: “Woof-woof, woof-woof!”

(The dog is catching up crow, A crows fly to their nests).

Publications on the topic:

Spiritual and moral development of preschool children in artistic and aesthetic activities Currently, the problem of spiritual and moral education of children has become extremely relevant. Therefore, it is necessary to create an educational one.

Artistic and creative activity. Abstract of the GCD in the second junior group (modeling) “Candy for Friends” Objectives: 1. Learn to pinch off small lumps of plasticine, roll them between your palms with straight movements, and sculpt them only on the board. Develop.

Program content: remember previously familiar fairy tales, continue to teach how to evaluate heroes and their actions, and develop the ability to coordinate.

Topic of the lesson. "Bird." Type of lesson. Application. Age group. Second youngest. P. sod. : Teach methods of applique from parts (circles).

Abstract of the GCD on artistic and aesthetic development (modeling) in the second junior group “Airplane” Purpose of the lesson: To continue to introduce the child to plasticine and its properties, to continue to develop interest in modeling and curiosity. Tasks:.

Abstract of the educational activity for the development of artistic and aesthetic activities “Dandelion” Goal: artistic and aesthetic development of children. Objectives: Educational: 1. Continue to develop skills in working with plasticine, non-traditional.

Program content: Teach children to convey the image of a snowman. Learn to sculpt objects consisting of 2 balls. Strengthen the ability to roll out.

Arrived at the market
She said loudly to everyone: “Kar!
I may not study at school,
But smart, because I am (crow)"

Here she is - the gray crow. Crow - amazing bird. Lives long, longer than a human. Crows are very smart birds. Crows are talkative birds. They can transmit different information to each other. Crows are very happy about the coming of spring: they spread their tails, twitch their wings and scream hoarsely.
Let's blind a crow. After all, it’s also wonderful to create beautiful crafts from plasticine with your own hands together with your child and use them in play. I hope this will create a positive emotional mood for you and your child. And they will help you with this puzzles and ours lesson:)

This bird is familiar to everyone -
It is important to walk near the house
Kar-Kar-Kar suddenly screams,
And it will fly away calmly.
A very cunning person
And her name is (Crow)

CROW'S FEET
1. Roll two black pea-sized balls.
2. Roll them into rolls.
3. Separate a small piece from the rollers - the leg of the foot, and roll the rest into thin long rolls.
4. Divide the long rollers into two parts, one of which is twice as long as the other.
5. Bend the long rollers along the poles, insert a small roller in the middle.
6. Form a foot and attach the remaining roller - the leg - to it.

HEAD OF OUR CROW
1. Roll a small ball - the head.
2. Two small black balls the size of a small pea. Roll one ball into a roller and bend it over the floors, giving it the shape of a beak.
3. Roll out the second ball and flatten it, forming a bang. Make cuts and spread a little apart.
4. Make eyes from two tiny white balls and two black beads.
5. Gather all the pieces together to form a head.

WINGS OF A CROW
1. Roll two black balls the size of a large pea.
2. Flatten them into flat cakes - droplets. Make cuts on the thick side and form a wing.
3. To make the feathers, you will need to roll out the plasticine into a thin roller, and then, dividing it into the required number of rollers, stick them each separately.

CROW'S TAIL
1. Roll one black ball the size of a pea.
2. Roll it into a thin long roll and divide it into three parts, each smaller than the previous one.
3. Bend two long ones along the floors, inserting a short one in the middle.
4. Form a ponytail.