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Difficult ideas from salt dough. Crafts from salt dough with your own hands - cooking instructions, master classes, photo ideas

The origins of dough modeling are rooted in the past. There is a legend that it was invented by Slavic chefs, who were bored and had fun, creating interesting, edible figurines from the dough. In addition, this material is one of the cheapest and available to everyone. Therefore, in our time, this type of creativity is popular, everyone has flour, water and salt in the house. So, a few interesting DIY crafts from salt dough, with photos and step-by-step instructions.

Salty dough crafts

If you decide to touch this art, and dough plastic really is such, you need to learn in detail about the material from which you will sculpt. For beginners who like to make dough, it is worth noting that the recipe is very simple.

  • Flour - one glass
  • Salt - half a glass
  • Water - 125 ml

It is worth remembering that salt is heavier than flour, so you need to take it half as much!

To sculpt thin embossed figures, you need to add PVA glue, or starch, or wallpaper glue to the dough. At your choice, one tablespoon, pre-mix wallpaper glue with water. To facilitate the mixing process, use a mixer, it will make it of high quality and make it easier to work with your hands.
For sculpting from colored dough, use food colorings if there are none, you can take regular paint. If you want a rich chocolate color, add a little cocoa. Remember that the dough loses its color as it dries. Therefore, it is better to shift the dye than not to report. Coating the finished dough craft with varnish will make it brighter and more practical.

Dignity

  1. It is one of the cheapest and most environmentally friendly materials.
  2. Doesn't get your hands dirty (although this statement is relative)
  3. It is easy to work with, very flexible and allows you to perform parts of any complexity.

"Piglet"

Consider the easiest sculpting method.

To work you need:

  • Salty dough
  • Brush
  • Stack
  • Paints
  • Toothpicks

How to do it

  1. Roll a ball out of dough and give it the appearance of an oval, this will be the body of a piglet.
  2. Make a second ball (head) and use a toothpick to place it on the body.
  3. Make a small heel of a pig, a flattened ball with holes, you can make holes with the back of a pencil.
  4. It is also not difficult to make the ears, moisten the triangles with water and attach them carefully to the head.
  5. Do this with your legs, roll up two sausages, make a small incision at one end, and attach your legs to the body with the other end.
  6. Our pig will sit in a basin, for this, roll out a ball of dough to make it look like a basin.
  7. Sit the pig in a basin and paint your craft with paints.
  8. Let your masterpiece dry.

Master class on how to make a pig from dough step by step video instruction

Little secrets

Everyone in the house has a garlic extractor. It can be used in work by passing the dough through it to get long curls. They can be applied in the form of hair, wool of your crafts. Having a tea sieve at home will turn out thinner vermicelli, for finer details of the craft.
The comb can also be used for sculpting, it will perfectly print a ribbed pattern on it.

"Candlestick"

Ingredients

  • puff pastry
  • eggs (for lubrication)
  • prunes
  • chocolate

Cooking method

  1. Roll out the dough on the table. The thickness should not exceed 0.5 cm. Cuts circles with a glass.
  2. In the middle of the finished circles, place
    stuffing. It can be prunes, dried apricots, jam, the main thing is that the filling is not liquid.
  3. From each circle we form an asterisk (collecting up, like a bag)
  4. Cut the edges with pastry scissors. And we bend each strip, turning them to the center.
  5. Form a flower and coat with an egg.
  6. We bake in the oven at 180 degrees.
  7. We decorate our flowers. You can put some jam in the middle.
  8. We take a flat dish and, using melted chocolate, draw a stem and leaves for our delicious craft. We distribute the finished flowers in the right places on the plate and all our unusual flower is ready.

"Tasty squirrel"

To prepare such a craft, you need to take:

Good afternoon, today we finally finished large selection ideas for New Year's crafts from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. Here you can find Christmas decorations made of dough, pendants or decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters fashioned from dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other dough crafts for children, suitable for classes in the garden or school. I promise that today you will fall in love with this world of wonderful salt crafts and want to make your own miracle from salt dough with your own hands. New Year.

So let's get started. We'll start with the recipe.

RECIPE FOR SALT BREATH

For New Year's crafts.

  • Flour (wheat or rye) - 1 glass. It is rye salty dough that keeps its shape better.
  • Salt (finely ground for example "Extra") - 1 glass
  • 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (so as not to stick to your hands), or 1 tbsp. hand creams
  • PVA glue 2 tablespoons - optional, without it.
  • Water - how much the dough will take. Pouring gradually kneading the dough into a tight plastic lump

First, mix dry ingredients - salt, flour.

Add 1 tablespoon, rub with your hands. Add a spoon again and grind. We continue to pour and knead with our own hands. As soon as we have an elastic lump in our hands, our dough is ready.

Store the finished dough by wrapping it tightly in cling film and placing it on a shelf in the refrigerator.

PAINTING RULES

Method 1 - paint the dough itself... You can dye the dough with food colors or salt colors for Easter eggs. COLORS are also suitable - jars of dyes from a hardware store, they are used to tint white wall paint in the desired color. They are cheap and rich in color.

Method 2 - paint the craft... Crafts can be made from unpainted dough and then painted with gouache on top and fixed with hairspray from a spray can.

MODELING RULES.

We attach large parts of the craft to each other with a match or a toothpick. We glue the small parts on water, that is, we moisten the parts with water and apply them to each other.

As the crafts are sculpted, we hold a bowl of water next to it, moisten our hands or the dough itself from drying out. In the open air, the dough dries quickly and loses its elasticity.

RULES FOR DRYING CRAFTING.

It can be dried in the open air, on a radiator, in an oven (130-140 degrees).

Flat dough forms.

(Christmas crafts-toys for the Christmas tree).

The easiest way to make a dough craft is a flat silhouette covered with paint, with or without a pattern. Roll out the dough into an even layer, cut out the figures, dry. If you like perfect shapes, then I suggest you grind the dried part with sandpaper (sandpaper for grinding), sold in a hardware store for a penny. This will give you a perfectly flat craft surface.

We cover the figurine made of salt dough with paint of a background color (gouache, acrylic, even construction acrylic is great). Dry. On this background, draw multi-colored patterns. Dry. We fix it with hairspray (or acrylic varnish).

Here is a great idea for children's crafts from salt dough for the New Year - a Bullfinch bird from the outlines of a child's palm. We put our palm on the cardboard, outline it with a pencil, cut it out. We put a cardboard palm on the rolled dough, cut it with a knife ... or scribble it with a knife and cut it out with scissors, carefully lifting the dough layer above the table without stretching it.

And now I want to tell several important tricks, secrets and nuances, which will help you immediately achieve a good bright result in working on New Year's dough crafts.

HOW TO OUTLINE the clear contours of the pattern on the salt dough.

First, we draw the details with a pencil on the already dried dough (we make a sketch), if the esk is successful, then we draw it with a black felt-tip pen (so that it becomes visible).

We paint all the details of the drawing with gouache, like a contour coloring, without fear of climbing on the black edge of the stroke. We dry the paint.

And then we go along all the edges with a black bold marker. So the outlines of the drawing will become clearer (see the photo below, where exactly the windows and doors of houses made of salt dough are drawn in this way)

THE SECRET of choosing a color for coloring dough crafts.

If you do not draw the boundaries of the details with a black stroke, then you must observe the CONTRAST RULE - that is, choose such paints where the colors themselves stand out against each other.

The craft star made of dough with a penguin in the photo below is very indicative - White paint looks bright in contrast to black, and red paint is brighter when adjacent to black and white.

But in the right photo below (with a butterfly made of salt dough), this rule is no longer followed. And pink flowers look pale and expressionless against the orange background of the craft.

But the blue flower (for crafts even lower in the shape of a star) is already bright - because the blue and orange are CONTRAST to each other.

You can make a pattern crafts from close palette colors(white, blue, blue - as in the mitten from the photo below), but then you need to achieve a difference in their saturation - the hollow should be lighter, and the blue should be juicier and darker - so that there is no color fading.

And it is better to choose contrasting juicy colors (red + white + green) - as it was done for the craft on the right photo below - with New Year's sops made of salt dough. A beautiful and simple New Year's craft made of salt dough for children in school or an older group of kindergarten. Cut the leaves with molds or scissors from salt dough. All painting of the craft is done with gouache.

How to paint with an embossed pattern.

You can paint colorful patterns on the salt dough, enriching the decor embossed relief (as in the photo with the New Year's dough craft below). There we first make indentations with a stamp - round berries (we squeeze out with a pencil and wash) and leaves (we do it with a stamp cut from a piece of raw potatoes).

After pushing through the relief pattern, we apply paint to the inside of the relief, giving the entire craft beautiful retro style.

How to color the salty dough itself.

First, we make a regular salty dough. Natural dough color. Then at the bottom of the glass in a couple of drops of water we dilute the food powder dye. And add this mixture to a small piece of dough. Knead evenly with your hands (hands will also be painted, not scary, everything will be washed off). We get a colored lump of dough - from it we make colored elements to decorate the dough crafts (for example, these buttons on the mittens below).

You can use food coloring or salted Easter coloring. In powder or immediately liquid (then it does not need to be soaked in water). As a result, we get a colored material for sculpting bright details, which can be used to decorate a flat dough craft.

Depending on the amount of dye, you will get a bright juicy color (like a carrot on the nose of a dough snowman) or a pale pastel shade (like a salty dough owl in the right photo). As you can see, it's easy to do everything yourself. Even children will be happy to help knead the dye - they are fascinated by the process of spreading the color to all parts of the dough.

Graphic SECTOR painting

dough crafts.

With the help of the usual drawing ruler you can make a RELIEF GRAPHICS - divide the plane of the salted figurine into clear sectors (as it was done for crafts in the form of a heart with the photo below) and paint each sector with its own color. A beautiful and bright DIY Christmas craft made of salt dough that looks like factory stamping. Nicely done.

Similarly, you can extrude sectors WITH FLUID BORDERS(not in a straight line, but in a curved line). To do this, we take a sheet of thick cardboard, place it on the edge, slightly curving it - and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth line of the groove (as it was done on Christmas tree decorations from the dough in the photo below).

Round grooves, in the form of a ring, are made with the help of caps from medicine bottles, caps of felt-tip pens and other things.

We immediately whiten the grooves with white gouache, let them dry. And on top we apply already bright layers of paint.

We fix the craft with layers of hairspray, the usual one from the cheapest spray can (or cover it with a soft brush with acrylic varnish from a stationery store).

After varnishing, the color becomes brighter by 2-3 tones.

The varnish coating (especially in several layers) makes the craft sparkle as if it were made of ceramic with ceramic glaze.

Pay attention to the craft of salt dough mittens - ideal for kindergarten. We sculpt the mittens ourselves - and we give the children the opportunity to divide the sectors into strips with a ruler and paint the strips with different gouache colors. Simple and eerily interesting for all the kids in kindergarten and even big boys from school. The craft-apple from the salt test is also a find for classes in kindergarten - and make a relief with a ruler on a leaf, and work with gouache for your own pleasure and with your own hands.

Crafts from the dough for the New Year

with rhinestones and sequins.

You can decorate salty dough crafts with various decorative elements from a sewing accessories store. Rhinestones, sequins, sequins, buttons, beads, beads - all this can add New Year's sparkle to your craft.

Decoupage technique

On crafts made from salt dough.

Flat dough silhouettes can be a great backdrop for paper napkin prints. The technique is called decoupage. And you don't need anything specifically for her, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and patterned napkin and hairspray for finishing.

We take an already dried silhouette from salted dough. If necessary, grind it with emery paper so that the surface becomes smooth and even (although this is not necessary).

Apply a layer of PVA glue to the surface of the dough piece. We separate the thin top paper layer from the napkin with the pattern and put it on top of the glue, gently straightening the delicate paper, not allowing it to settle down with wrinkles or wrinkles.

It is not necessary to fill the entire surface of the salty craft with a napkin pattern. You can place the napkin pattern on only one side of the silhouette made of dough (as it was done on New Year's crafts-hearts made of salt dough). Before work, it is better to grind the dried hard surface of the parts with ordinary sandpaper, and cover it with white color (gouache or acrylic) - this way we will get the ideal "canvas" for our exquisite art of decoupage.


Salt dough tools

(knives and scissors for craft decor)

Here in the photo below we see how interesting it is to use a knife and ordinary scissors when making crafts from salt dough. The edge of the knife creates a triangular, depressed silhouette, and with scissors you can cut the dough into protruding sharp pieces of the same shape.

This scissor technique is very useful when you need to create plumage in the crafts of birds from salt dough. Actual craft for the New Year of the Rooster.

Salted dough weaving

For the New Year.

And here is an example of how you can do it yourself from salted dough KNITTED HEART... First, we sculpt long sausages-ropes from the dough with our hands.

Then we bend the long sausage in half and twist it into the HARNESS-SPIRAL.

We put 2 twisted bundles next to each other - sideways to the barrel - choosing such an arrangement so that the turns of each neighboring bundle look in the opposite direction. That is, one bundle with a coil diagonal left down, and another bundle with a diagonal of the coil right down. Thus, 2 plaits laid side by side form the illusion of ONE PIGLET.

If we place several such braids next to each other (of two bundles each), then we get LEAF, similar to the relief of a knitted pattern.

It remains to squeeze out the silhouette of a heart from this canvas (with a regular cookie cutter). And lay this knitted layer on top of another regular flat dough heart.

You can mold an ordinary pigtail (of three sausages) from salt dough, put it in a ring and decorate the craft like a Christmas wreath. Form pink petals from round dough cakes, put in a rose. Make the leaves with veins squeezed out by the edge of the knife.

Wicker dough can be decorated with silhouettes cut out with cookie cutters, such as stars. Below we see a master class on accurately painting dough crafts

After drying, each element is covered with thick gouache, we choose the painting design to our taste. You can add glitter elements and beading.

Dough crafts

With embossed patterns.

(embossing method).

Here is a salt dough craft decor method that all kids love. They are delighted with the openwork pattern that, as if by magic, appears on the salt dough.

The easiest way to make a pattern on salt dough with your own hands is with button prints. We take large buttons without holes - using double-sided tape we glue them on ordinary wine corks - and we get convenient stamps that you can hold in your hands. We give the children stamps and they poke them into the rolled dough. Next, cut out the silhouettes of the Christmas trees with cookie cutters - and we get a craft in the form of a Christmas tree, with Christmas balls.

Look nice large metal button prints with a raised embossed pattern - antique.

Similarly, you can use grandmothers brooches, buttons with an eagle or a horse on daddy's jeans, grandfather's royal coins (hee-hee), embossed caps from mom's perfume, beer caps, the bottoms of Aunt Sima's crystal glasses and other interesting round stamps.

But this pattern on a Christmas tree craft made of salt dough was made using thick cardboard (or a rubber mat), which was rolled into a tube to form a curl at the end of the roll. And this curl was applied to the salted dough rolled out on the table. The result is simple and beautiful. An excellent children's craft for a competition for a school or kindergarten.

The bottom and sides of a decanter and other crystal flasks are an excellent storehouse of patterns for crafts from salt dough for the New Year.

You can also involve RELIEF TEXTILES - napkins, tablecloths, and fringed curtains. You can buy embossed lace in a store, or look for its elements in a drawer with beautiful linen.

Just put the lace on the rolled dough. And roll it over it with the same rolling pin. If there are no rolling pins in your house (you are such a mistress, what can you do), then it can be replaced with a smooth glass bottle or a spray of hairspray.

A very beautiful and clear relief is left by RUBBER WIPES (as in the photo below). The fashion for them has passed back in Soviet times - but for DIY New Year's crafts, you can buy a couple of elegant polyethylene napkins.

These are the patterned things made from plastic Chinese napkins.

How to do it right

paint the dough craft

WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.

We want the painting of the embossed patterned dough crafts to turn out bright. So that the paint does not smear the pattern, but only emphasizes it, highlights it. To make the pattern darker inside and lighter on top - how to do it?

And here's how - first we paint the entire craft in one color with a brush - we climb with a brush into all the grooves of the pattern. Dry until the paint is completely dry.

And then we take the paint 1-2 tones lighter (or generally of a different color) and work no longer with a brush, but with a foam sponge, or with a makeup sponge.

We smear this second paint on a plate, blot it with a sponge and carefully make an imprint of the sponge on the surface of our pattern - SO that the sponge does not press into the grooves-grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get an even coloring of the entire craft.

Thus, we will color the pattern with textured highlighting it in 2 color tones - on top and inside the relief.

And here (in the photo below) is still an original-painted and original-depressed craft made of salt dough. As far as I understand, this relief on the craft-star is made with help bags a la snake or crocodile skin... The surface of the bag was applied to the dough. All this was dried. And then they painted it with a brush and a sponge in several tint runs. Please note that not all places were painted over with a blue brush, somewhere a brush with white paint was walking. And then everything was powdered on top with soft white paint with the help of a foam sponge.

And you can also not look for any stamps for patterns - but prick the pattern yourself - with ordinary sticks, pencils, cocktail tubes. Just first, with the tip of a pencil, outline the lines of the future pattern - draw weak strips of future flower petals. And then, along the outlined lines, make puncture-holes. If we take sticks of different thicknesses, then we get different points, this will give the composition additional artistic variability.

And yet nature itself can give us its own stamps for imprinting New Year's mood on dough crafts. Twigs of evergreen fir, imprints of cones and dry sinewy leaves. Even at home in a flower pot, you can find the source of a beautiful floral pattern.

Puff pastry crafts

do it yourself for the New Year.

See what flaky beauty you can do with your own hands. How beautiful DOUBLE-LAYER CRYSTALS from salted dough look. The lower base layer is made without a pattern, in a single color. We dry this layer thoroughly, then grind its surface with sandpaper (or pumice stone for the heels, also good). Cover the sanded base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform staining (you can act not with a brush, but with a foam rubber sponge or spray paint from a spray can).

The upper patterned layer of the craft is already made of salted dough with a relief print. By the way, very beautiful prints can be made using tin old trays with embossed metal engraving. Your grandmother or elderly neighbor may have just such a tray. A neighbor will let you use it for a chocolate bar, if you sensibly explain to an alarmed old woman that in 5 minutes you will return the valuable rarity to the owner. If you don't trust, invite her to your kitchen-workshop, let her see how her tray helps to create a New Year's miracle.

And here is a children's craft for the New Year - in the form of bird pendants on a Christmas tree. Here the relief is applied to the upper layers - the wings and the breast. First, we cut out the body of the bird from the dough. Then the breast and wings.

We preliminarily make a relief impression WITH THE HELP OF A WIRE. Yes, ordinary wire on a flat table is twisted in different winding directions, forming a flat pattern of twisted tracks.

Then this wire is placed on rolled salted dough and pressed into its pulp with a rolling pin.

Two-layer children's crafts made of salt dough for the New Year must necessarily contain a New Year theme in their decor. These are snowflakes (cut from dough), these are red berries and holly leaves. Ribbons can also be sculpted from dough or you can take real satin ones.

It is possible and necessary to decorate multi-layer crafts with beads. The beads can be put on glue, or you can also string the bead on a wire, and twist the ends of the wire together, pierce the dough craft and spread the ends to the sides (in a spread). Such a wire fastening of the beads is used in the craft in the photo below.

Here we just see an example of a craft made of salted dough IN A FEW LAYERS. You will find out exactly how to make this New Year's flower from salt dough with your own hands if you read the article on our website.The principle of creating puff flowers from paper is shown there, and exactly the same principle allows you to make the same flowers from dough. The rolled dough is cut in the same way as paper, with scissors, and it is also convenient to lay it in puff tiered flowers for the New Year.

The flower petal layers can be glued together after drying - with hot thermo-glue from a gun. Or at batter... Check in advance how this or that method works.

But (in the photo below) we see a two-layer craft made of salt dough, to which volume has been added. Very curious work. And in fact, making such a decoration for a Christmas tree is not difficult with your own hands.

Look - first we roll out the dough, then cut 2 rounds out of it with a glass. In him

We find at ourselves 2 Christmas tree balls of a suitable size. And we put our round pieces on the rounded belly of the Christmas tree ball. And we dry our workpiece like this right on the ball - so that it dries in the form of a hemisphere (bowl). Next, remove the two dry hemispheres from the Christmas tree ball and connect them together.

The most difficult thing is to do so that the edges of the hemispheres dock with each other (for this, each round, dressing on a Christmas ball, occupies EXACTLY HALF of this ball), does not go, so to speak, beyond the equator line.

You can make any pattern of salt dough curls on the surface of the round ball. As it is done in the photo below. We put a plastic wrap (nonkuyu, food) on the ball, and put the elements of the pattern on it. Dry in a ball. Then carefully remove, separate the cling film with our hands.

Liquid pattern

On crafts of salt dough.

In the photo below we see snow-white crafts made of polished salt dough, with an openwork pattern applied to it. Such a delicate almost lacy bas-relief can be made using the technique of "liquid drawing". We dilute the liquid salty dough and apply it with a confectionery syringe, or an envelope (a bag with a notched corner) - along the lines of the intended pattern.

First, sand the canvas - a dry flat piece of salt dough. Then on it with a pencil, chalk, or felt-tip pen, we will draw the lines of the future drawing. And we begin to slowly apply a thick pattern.

By the way, the same work can be done with gypsum diluted with water (gypsum plaster will do).

Try first on the probe, which works best for you with plaster or batter... How it dries, cracks from drying, or holds its shape. Try to make samples with varying degrees of liquid (from very thick to thin).

So with your own hands and with your brains, you can think of and experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough... Try it. Be creative. Be disgraceful. Play pranks.

You can add dye to the batter (food, or color jars, which are sold in hardware stores for diluting them in white paint). Crafts with such a liquid pattern can be done imitating christmas cookies, and sprinkle them with coarse salt grains, imitating the sugar topping.

Salt dough crafts

WITH HOLES.

You can make curly holes on toy pendants made of salt dough. In the form of stars, hearts, just round holes.

Or you can squeeze out a whole openwork pattern from molds of different configurations.

By the way, this is how you can make an openwork snowflake from salt dough. Here in the photo below we see an abbreviated master class - it immediately becomes clear how to actually make such a New Year's beauty with your own hands.

You can put THERMO-MOSAICs into the holes on the raw dough, which melts in the oven. And when baked, it will spread out in a colored lake inside the hole in the craft.

Instead of a mosaic, you can pour ordinary COLORED Lollipops - that is, sweets. They, too, will melt and fill the hole. It will turn out a beautiful craft with your own hands, just as if the children would not lick it off with their tongues.

New Year characters

from salted dough.

The dough can be used to make various New Year and winter characters. For example a snowman or penguins.

You can mold the usual shapes from the dough, and then use paints to make them look like the desired character.

Details can be drawn with a thin stroke with black gouache, or with a black thick marker.

Complex STEP-BY-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. Here you need painstaking and perseverance in order to do all the work piece by piece and dry everything thoroughly before painting.

Curly FLAT silhouettes can also be decorated in the form of New Year's characters. Salted dough snowman - based on the silhouette of a STAR.

The simplest forms are connected and a new New Year's craft is obtained from salt dough in the form of a SAND MAN.

To make the craft look spectacular and voluminous, you can - also from dough - make it a SUBSTRATE. That is, the background, for example, in the form of a lush bow, as in the craft with a bear cub from the photo below.

The rolled salted dough is cut into strips - a fluffy bow is formed from them. Put the bear craft on top of the bow and dry it all together. Then we paint, with a brush, climbing into all hard-to-reach places.

And here is the handicraft ANGEL made of salt dough, where our technique of embossed print is applied - on the wings and on the tunic.

You can come up with your own design of New Year's crafts from salt dough. In any case, your character will be recognizable after you paint everything with gouache.

Santa Claus from salted dough - also made easily and the most different ways(as you saw in the photo above. The beard can be made round, branched, curly, or flat and cut along the edge with scissors (as in the photo below)

You can just make the head of Santa Claus - with a star-shaped substrate, as in the photo below.

These are the ideas for crafts from salt dough for the New Year you found on our website today. We have many other collections with beautiful New Year's artworks for children of all ages. Sculpt your New Year's happiness with your own hands and let the crafts from the salted dough give you sweet pleasure from the results of your labor.

Happy New Year.

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This article will show you how to make your own salted dough and how to dry it. A lot of photos and step-by-step instructions will help you mold a dough craft for any holiday.

For modeling lessons with young children, it is better to use salt dough or Play Dоh plasticine.

How to make craft dough: recipe

You can make the dough yourself, for this you only need a few simple ingredients: flour, fine salt, citric acid, vegetable oil and water.

First mix 1 cup flour with 0.5 cup salt and 2 teaspoons citric acid... Pour into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of oil to the dry mixture. Put on medium heat, gradually add water and stir. Water should leave no more than 0.5 cups. When the mass has lagged away from the sides of the pan and becomes one lump, remove the pan from the heat. Take out the mass, put it on a board sprinkled with flour, and, as regular dough, knead with your hands.

If you want to do colored dough for modeling, you first need to dilute dry food coloring in water. You can also already in ready dough add a little gouache and knead it well so that the color becomes uniform.

How to prepare salted modeling dough?

Make a salty dough. Paint it different colors, depending on what you want to dazzle. The dough can be made uncolored, divided into balls and in each add a little gouache of the desired color and knead. It is better to make the dough in regular colors, and then mix them to achieve the desired result.

Keep the dough in a bag, or wrap it in plastic wrap, you can put it in a closed container so that it does not dry out. If it is dry, add a little water, and if it is too wet, add a little flour.

  1. Thin the dough and simply spread it on the base of the craft, so you can make butter on a piece of bread, or make brown dough chocolate icing for cake
  2. Try on the food you made with toy plates that you will play with later, so that they match in size
  3. Use a wet brush to stick the pieces of salt dough together. Smear the joint with a brush, and stick the pieces to each other.
  4. When sculpting food for dolls, it is very important to make the dough as much as possible in the same color as the original, for example, the carrots should be orange, not yellow or red
  5. To prevent the colors from fading, open the craft with varnish. For lessons with children, you need to use special harmless varnishes, they do not have an unpleasant odor, because they are made on a water basis


Drying figurines from salt dough for modeling

There are two ways to dry salt dough crafts.

  1. Air dry the crafts. It is best if you place them on a smooth surface and leave them on for a few days. When the craft is dry, turn it over or lay it on its side to dry on all sides
  2. Baking in the oven. Preheat the oven well, put baking paper on a baking sheet, spread the crafts on top, put in the oven and turn off the heat. The oven must be closed and not opened until completely dry. You can also bake crafts at a temperature of 100 ° C, but in this case, you need to monitor them so that they do not burn

These two methods can be combined, for example, dry for an hour in the oven, then leave in the air, after a while in the oven, and so on until it dries.

Of course, if the craft contains other decorations (beads, beads), you need to dry it in the first way.

Christmas crafts from salt dough

The child will really like to decorate the house before the New Year and do handicrafts with their parents.

Christmas tree toys made of dough


Salted dough can be used to make great Christmas tree decorations, and even toddlers can handle making them.

  1. Prepare modeling dough in different colors or uncolored
  2. Roll a cake out of it and squeeze out a figurine, you can use cookie cutters
  3. Make a hole with a cocktail tube so that later the figurine can be hung on the tree
  4. Decorate the toy as you like with your child: stick multi-colored cakes on the Christmas tree, make a garland for it, let it rain, add white snow to the toy
  5. Unpainted dough can be dried first and then painted with paints or markers.
  6. Dry the dough or bake in the oven
  7. Pass the ribbon through the hole and hang the toy on the tree

You can make a lot of holes in the figures.




Or stick beads, beads and other beautiful stones into the dough, but in this case, these toys cannot be baked in the oven.






You can decorate toys with ribbons or decorative strings.


After the dough is dry, apply PVA glue on it and sprinkle glitter on the figures.


Use a permanent marker to color the uncolored dried dough.


Cut out a figurine in the shape of a mitten, make it a beautiful colored ribbon from colored dough and decorate it with a homemade button. This figurine can be baked in the oven.


Print the baby's palm and draw Santa Claus in it - it will not only be a wonderful toy for the New Year tree, but it will also be remembered.


You can also make such a Santa Claus toy. Use a garlic press to give him a beard.

Make some more brown dough gingerbread toys like this.


Making a New Year's candle out of dough

To mold a New Year's candle, you will need dough for modeling in different colors, a cardboard cylinder, for example, from a roll of paper napkins and red and yellow napkins.

  • Have your child roll up colorful sausages.
  • Stick them around our cardboard base


  • Decorate it with colorful balls
  • You can simply stick around a cardboard cylinder with one color and then decorate it.


  • Make a fire out of napkins and secure it at the top of our candle


Christmas tree made of dough

  • First make a blank for a Christmas tree, for this you need a cardboard box made of juice or milk. Cut off its top first, cut along the side folds, open. From the rectangles, you need to cut off the excess so that you get isosceles triangles. See how to do this in the diagram below.


  • Glue the cardboard base for your tree


  • Now let the child decorate it: let the green dough stick over it - you will have a Christmas tree. It remains only to add balls, a garland, a star to it, and do not forget about the gifts under the Christmas tree


You can also make such a Christmas tree

Easter crafts made from salt dough

For Easter, you can make the following crafts from salt dough:

  • Decorated eggs made from tortilla dough


  • Figurines of bunnies, carved from a cake of salt dough.
  • Decorated voluminous Easter egg


  • Egg stand


Easter eggs made from dough

Even a tiny one can cope with this task.

  • Take the dough, mold an egg-shaped figure out of it.
  • Decorate it as you like with your child.


You can use mixed dough of different colors for the base, you can make the base from unpainted and then paint with paints or markers. Crack eggs open with glue and sprinkle with cosmetic glitter. Glue colored balls by moistening the junction with a wet brush. Press beads, pasta, cereals, and other decorations into the eggs. Make prints with different objects.

In general, fantasize!


Dough egg stand

To do this, you will need a cardboard cylinder, dough and paints.

Cover a cut cardboard circle with unpainted dough, mold its tail, head and other parts, as shown in the diagrams below.


Don't forget to seal the dough all around the stand.


Decorate the craft as your fantasy tells you, you can use gouache or watercolors.


Open up with water-based varnish to brighten the colors and last longer.


Crafts from the test for February 14 for Valentine's Day

What do everyone associate with this wonderful holiday? Of course the heart! Let's make a festive heart with a child and give it to parents.

Salted dough heart


Here, as elsewhere, we first make the base, in our case the heart, and decorate it!


You can decorate with roses, it will be very beautiful. How to sculpt roses, see the step-by-step instructions with the photo below.


You can make such a strap with paws.


These cute couples are made very quickly and easily.


You can make many such heart-shaped figures, make holes in them and make a garland out of them, which you can use to decorate the wall in the house.


Photo frame made of dough

Make an empty heart, decorate it and use it as a frame for a family photo, secure it on the back with colored cardboard.


Salted dough decoration

Such a loving fish will definitely suit mother's outfit on this holiday.


Crafts from the test for March 8

On March 8, you can make such flower keychains for mothers, grandmothers, aunts and sisters. They can be done with younger children. You can use multi-colored dough or unpainted, and then decorate it with paints.


You can dazzle such a flower candlestick for a gift.


Make such interesting medals with the children, and most importantly, they are all different. Let the child give them himself.


Blind figurines in the shape of a figure eight and decorate with flowers, stones, beads, in general, for which there is enough imagination.

Make a pendant with your child, for example, in the shape of a heart and decorate it: blind flowers, leaves, decorate with paints, sign a congratulation.


Salted dough roses

  • We take the dough for modeling you need colors
  • Sculpt a cone


  • Roll up the ball, flatten it gently into a round cake
  • Glue the ball to the cone


  • We make a second ball and glue it on the other side - we got a bud
  • We make a few more balls and also sculpt petals from them. We cling them in a circle


  • Bend the upper edges of the petals back a little, and press the sides to the center


  • We make a few side by side, depending on how lush you want to get a flower

The rosette is ready!


If necessary, make leaves of green dough, push the veins with a toothpick. Make the legs from the sausages. Connect all the details in one flower.

Crafts from the dough by February 23


Such a medal will definitely please.


Airplane - craft from salt dough

An airplane made of salt dough will be a wonderful gift for dad or grandfather.

  • Roll up the base for the figure - this will be the body
  • Bend one side of it a little - this will be the tail. Attach the remaining parts to it


  • Roll up the wheels for him and fenders


  • Go through with a damp brush and attach the parts to the body


  • Blind and attach the wings in the form of triangles on toothpicks


  • Make a propeller and use a toothpick to attach to the body as well


  • Let the figurine dry for a few days.


  • Decorate the airplane with gouache


Crafts from the dough for Shrovetide

Shrovetide is an ancient holiday with many symbols and traditions. Crafts for this holiday are very diverse, you have plenty to choose from.

For the little ones, you can offer to make the sun, which symbolizes the onset of spring.


Here is such a sun for older children.


Have your child make their own pancakes using salted dough.


Pancakes key chains


Panels and pictures from salt dough

With older children, you can make a picture out of salt dough.

For example, it could be a fruit basket. Follow step by step instructions with the photo below.

  • Roll out the uncolored dough to a thickness of about 0.5 cm
  • Prepare a basket template and, attach to the dough, cut out the basket from it
  • Squeeze out the dough using a garlic press, twist it into flagella, stick it, having moistened the junction before this, on the handle of your future basket.


  • Use a stack or knife to push through the lines that simulate basket weaving


  • Squeeze out from the rolled dough with a mold or cut out a few leaves according to the template. Sell ​​them veins
  • Stick the leaves on the basket


  • Now prepare the fruits: apples, plums, grapes, etc. Roll balls of different sizes for them and give them the desired shape. For apples, in the place where the dried inflorescence should have been, stick the seasoning with cloves, the apples will look like real
  • Put it all together in one picture


  • Leave your craft to dry for a few days, preferably naturally.
  • Color at your discretion

Here is a simpler picture you can make with smaller children.

  1. Draw a background to it
  2. Draw the outlines of the character shapes
  3. Ask your child to stick the dough without going out of the way
  4. Leave the painting to dry
  5. When it's dry, invite your child to paint the characters.
  6. Draw small details
  7. Open the picture with varnish, put it in a frame and you can hang it on the wall

Step-by-step dough crafts

Below are some step-by-step instructions with a photo for sculpting salt dough with children.

Salted dough beads

  1. We take colored dough, you can have the same color, you can different
  2. We roll balls from it, preferably evenly and of the same size. You can make the size in descending order
  3. Pierce the balls gently in the center with a toothpick
  4. We leave them to air dry for several days. Flip them periodically on opposite sides.
  5. When the balls are dry, carefully remove the toothpicks
  6. We string the resulting beads on a string or ribbon
  7. You can paint the beads with paints or markers


Salt dough horseshoe

  1. Roll out the dough into a flat cake, 1 cm thick
  2. Attach a horseshoe template and cut out a figurine with a knife
  3. Blind the leaves, cut off the excess, push the veins on them
  4. Blind the berries and the flower, make holes in the berries and stripes on the flower with a toothpick
  5. Lubricate the horseshoe with water and stick all the details
  6. Use a toothpick to make holes around the horseshoe. Make two holes through the top to hang the figurine on the string
  7. Leave the horseshoe to dry completely or bake in the oven
  8. Initially, the dough can be taken in a certain color for each detail, or it can be painted at the end with paints


Dough star

  1. Roll out the dough into a layer about 1 cm thick
  2. Cut out an asterisk or other figurine with a cookie cutter
  3. Lubricate the corners gently with a wet finger so that they are smooth
  4. We decorate the figurine: we make her eyes, mouth, nose, pierce the holes with a toothpick, add decorations
  5. Bake in the oven or air dry
  6. We open with varnish


Dough caterpillar

  1. Roll the green dough sausage
  2. We cut it into equal circles, roll balls from them
  3. We mold the balls together, do not forget to moisten the junction.
  4. Making a caterpillar's face
  5. We pierce the figure with a toothpick or a pin in the place where we will attach it to the ring
  6. We dry our craft


Salted dough apple

  1. Roll out a ball of dough in the form of half an apple. To make the cut even, press it down to some smooth surface.
  2. Add a flat white center
  3. Roll apple seeds and a tail from brown dough. We make leaves from green
  4. Putting the figurine together and drying it

Crafts from salt dough - hedgehog

  • Form the body and head of a hedgehog from unpainted dough


  • Make him a nose and eyes, you can use black dough or peppercorns


  • Use nail scissors to cut the dough, making needles, lift them up a little. Cut the second row in a checkerboard pattern, and so on until the end


  • Leave the hedgehog to dry. When it completely hardens, you can paint it with paints and sprinkle with varnish.


Salt dough crafts - animals

Many animals can be sculpted from salt dough with children. Below are some step-by-step instructions with a photo.

Dough lamb

  1. Roll 4 balls - these will be the legs of the lamb. Place them in a square, pressing them tightly against each other (look at the photo)
  2. Roll up a piece of foil and place it inside the dough. Roll a ball out of it - this will be the body of a lamb
  3. Add the lamb's head, blind eye balls, sausage horns and ears
  4. To simulate wool, make many small balls and stick them around the back of the figure, pressing them down a little.
  5. Dry your craft and paint with paints and / or markers


Salted dough owl

  1. Roll out the dough into a round tortilla
  2. Use a felt-tip pen cap to push in waves, imitating plumage
  3. Roll your sides inward - these will be the wings
  4. Wrap the upper part towards the center too, stretching a little on the sides - this will be the head and ears
  5. Stamp with an eye cap and a toothpick add a beak
  6. Dry and paint


Dough elephant

  1. Roll up the ball, pull it out a little - this will be the body of an elephant
  2. Make 4 thick sausages - these will be the legs
  3. Blind the trunk of another
  4. Make a tail from a thin sausage
  5. Roll out two cakes, put smaller diameter and pink plates on them - you will get ears
  6. Collect everything in one figure and do not forget about the eyes
  7. Dry the elephant and open it with varnish

Dough crafts - cat

  • Cut out the cat template from cardboard

  • Roll out the dough in a layer of 0.5 cm
  • Attach the template and cut the cat out of the dough

  • Let the dough dry
  • Using sandpaper, sand around the perimeter of the figurine.


Paint the cat with a pencil and then paint, let it dry


Frame the panel

We make a fish from salted dough

  1. Roll out the dough 0.5 to 1 cm thick
  2. Cut the fish according to the template
  3. Decorate it: make voluminous eyes, fins and a tail, imitate scales with caps from felt-tip pens or other improvised means

    4. Let the mushroom dry and color it


    Dough crafts - fruits and vegetables

    From salt dough, you can mold many different vegetables and fruits, with which you can then play and feed the dolls.

    Remember that the colors of the food for the dolls should be matched as closely as possible to the original ones.


    Following the step-by-step instructions and photos, you can mold interesting figurines from salt dough, which can then be presented to friends and family for different holidays. We hope in this article you have found a lot of interesting works and useful information. Enjoy your activities and beautiful crafts!

    VIDEO: Craft from salted dough "Owl"

Dear readers, today we offer you crafts from salt dough. Modeling is an exciting activity, like any other creativity. If you've never done this before, give it a try! By acquiring skills, you can create masterpieces. It is also a reason to spend invaluable time with your children.

Salted dough modeling

The dough is an amazingly plastic material for sculpting various shapes and compositions: delicate, soft. Unlike ordinary plasticine, the dough does not stain your hands. With the correct kneading, the salty dough does not crumble, does not crack, it remains for a rather long time. Although it should be noted that the dough is a rather fragile material if handled carelessly.
From salted dough, you can make simple figurines and products, for example, leaves, mushrooms, apples, and rather complex options - trees, figurines of animals and people, as well as various multifaceted compositions.
A distinctive feature when working with this material is that no special tools and devices are required during the work. It is best to sculpt with your hands or use primitive tools that are always at hand. It should be noted that salted dough products are rather heavy (dense), which does not allow creating compositions of large sizes. Therefore, voluminous compositions and panels should not be very large.

For the test:

Flour - 2 parts
salt "Extra" - 2 parts
water (always cold) - 1 part
plastic bag for storing dough
To work with the test, you will need:
a jar of water for wetting your fingers and a brush,
rolling pin for rolling out the dough,
brushes,
paints,
toothpicks,
nail scissors

Drying the craft from salted dough

Drying is a very important step in the production of salted dough products. Imagine: you have conceived and created something wonderful out of it. And suddenly - as a result of hasty or incorrect firing - the product cracked and everything went down the drain! Here's a really big disappointment!
Outdoors at room temperature
You can dry the craft outdoors in a dry place. The thicker the product, the longer it will take. But this method is the most economical.
With air drying, moisture evaporates slowly, so it takes 1 day to dry each millimeter of product thickness.
In summer, use the heat of the sun to dry it: put the finished product on a sunny place.
Electric oven in the oven
Dry the craft for two days, first in the open air, then in the oven at a temperature of 50 ° C, gradually increasing the temperature, but not higher than 150 ° C.
The product must not remain damp. Its readiness is determined by sound. By tapping the finished product with your finger, you will hear a ringing sound. If the sound is dull, the product must be dried.
On the heating battery
This method is very convenient to use in winter, when the central heating radiators are well heated. Place the craft on foil or cloth and leave it on the battery until it dries completely.

Glazing with saline and browning

When the product is dry, it can be glazed. After that, the product will sparkle with overflows of shades from white to golden brown.
Glaze the product for an hour. To do this, using a brush, it is lubricated with a strong saline solution (the ratio of water to salt is 2: 1), and then placed in an oven at a temperature of 50 ° C to 150 ° C. When the first layer of the solution dries, the product is re-lubricated. The operation is repeated several times. This method gives the figures a smooth look. As the salt crystallizes on the surface of the product, it acquires a special noble whiteness.
However, the figurine can be given a different shade depending on the temperature of the oven. At a temperature of 50 ° C the product remains white, at a temperature of 150 ° C it acquires an intense beige color. A golden brown hue is obtained at a temperature of 200 ° C.
Since the "salt glaze" is formed by salt crystals, the products processed in this way need not be varnished.
Glazing products with egg yolk
The figurine can be given appetizing view ruddy dough using mixture glaze egg yolk and water. After glazing with salt, the mixture is applied to the product several times and dried at a higher temperature (about 150 ° C). At the same time, the oven door must be closed.
White color
The product will remain white after air drying or after drying in an oven if the firing temperature does not exceed 125 ° C.
Brown color
Lubricate the products in the last hour of drying at a temperature of 150 ° C with a brush with beet syrup diluted with water.
Buttery baking effect
The products will look like buns from yeast dough, if in the last hour of firing in the oven at a temperature of 150 ° C, first apply “salt glaze” to them, and then brush them with a mixture of milk and water or a mixture of egg yolk and water. If the temperature is raised to 200 ° C, Brown color will be darker.

Painting and varnishingsalted dough products

Coloring
Finished products can be colored in whole or in part. Products of color look great natural dough with minimal use of paints. However, if you want to completely paint the piece, it is recommended to use acrylic paints. Once dry, they do not stain your hands or smudge.
You can also use watercolors for coloring. To do this, the watercolor is stirred with a brush very thickly with a minimum amount of water and applied to the product so that the paint does not spread. The works painted in this way must be fixed with varnish.
Gouache paints can also be used for coloring. In this case, a little PVA glue should be added to the gouache.
To color the finished, kneaded salted dough from wheat flour, you need to add food coloring to it drop by drop. If the product is monochromatic, paint can be added when kneading the dough, and if the product is to be multi-colored, then the finished, kneaded dough should be divided into parts according to the number of colors.
Advice
The finished, kneaded dough is divided into as many parts as it needs to be painted in colors. Then small balls are sculpted from these parts, in the middle of which they make recesses. Further, paint is dripped into these recesses, after which the dough is thoroughly kneaded until it is evenly colored.
Varnishing
In order to prevent the paints from fading or drops of water accidentally falling on the surface of the product do not spoil the work, the figures are varnished.
Both liquid and thick varnish are used. Liquid varnishes do not protect salt dough products well, as they penetrate inside, and therefore the product has to be varnished many times. Still, use liquid varnish if you want the product to look more ruddy and less shiny. If the composition is liquid, the product must be varnished and dried several times.
Thick transparent varnishes, on the other hand, reliably protect the product from moisture, and they thoroughly cover the models from all sides. If you don't like mirror shine, use a matte clear varnish. If the composition is thick, it is enough to varnish the product once or twice.

Manufacturingsalted dough products

Try to sculpt or cut the product immediately on the baking sheet, while the back side of the product remains flat and does not cause damage when it is transferred to the place of drying and firing. Before starting work, moisten the baking sheet with water using a brush so that no air bubbles form between the dough and the baking sheet.
Cutting with baking tins
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm with a special roller or rolling pin on a work board or directly on a baking sheet. Now press any molds into the dough.
To connect the parts of the products into one whole, pre-moisten them with a wet brush, and they will stick together due to the sticky properties of flour. If you need to overlap parts, lubricate the back of the overlapping part with water, otherwise the spreading water stains will change color during drying. And so that you do not doubt a good result, brush the entire product with a brush moistened with water before it enters the oven.
Cut to pattern
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm on a work board or baking sheet. Place the prepared template on the dough and use a thin, sharp knife to cut the figurine along the edge of the template.
Then carefully separate the template, and moisten the edges of the figurine with water using a brush and trim with a wooden stick.
It's important to remember. The templates are best made of thin cardboard with a waterproof coating. Plain cardboard can just stick to the dough.
Increase and decrease
Draw your chosen plots on squared paper. If they need to be reduced, take another sheet into a smaller cage. Then transfer the points of intersection of the pattern with the cells and outline the contours. To enlarge the template, redraw it on a larger square paper.

Modeling of products from salted dough

There are several basic sculpting techniques. The production of almost all elements is based on a ball and a sausage.
To decorate salted dough products, many different small elements are used: flowers, ribbons, berries, leaves, pigtails, etc.
To make leaves, you need to roll out the sausage, cut it into identical cylinder parts, which should then be rolled into a ball. The ball needs to be flattened into a cake and form a sheet with your thumb and forefinger. Veins can be drawn with a toothpick.
Rosettes can be made from a thinly rolled ribbon, carefully wrapped around a toothpick. In this case, the desired size and shape of the flower is formed.
When making figurines of people, the basis is a sausage, which must be cone-shaped. A dough ball of the required size is used to sculpt the head. It is better to cut out more complex plane elements or figures from the rolled dough according to a pre-made template.

Basket with fruits and flowers

The size of the basket is 14 x 15 cm.

From 120 g of dough, mold a basket box.

To make a basket weave pattern, draw vertical lines with a ruler on the basket box. Along these lines, flatten the dough on both sides with two forks.

Roll 2 sausages from 50 g of dough, 17 cm each, roll a handle out of them and attach it on both sides to the basket, moistening the joints with water.

Roll a roll of dough with a diameter of 1.5 cm and cut it into equal pieces 5 cm long. Make balls from these pieces, squeeze them a little from the top and bottom and stick in cloves (spices) - you get apples.

Cut the dough into 5 x 1 cm pieces and mold them.

Make two with toothpicks and place them on.

Bunch of grapes blind from small balls.

Your basket is ready!

Hedgehog

We offer you samples of salted dough products that you can make.

Bioceramics - this is the name of the type of creativity when crafts are created from salt dough by molding, like from plasticine. You can sculpt anything: figurines of animals, plants, leaves of different tree species, letters of the alphabet and even whole paintings.

Working with salt dough is much better than with plasticine or special modeling mass. It is prepared by hand, does not contain allergenic additives, i.e. completely safe for children and adults. Crafts made from salt dough can last for years.

Salty dough recipe

Ingredients of a recipe for making a salty craft dough: a full glass of flour and extra salt, ½ cup of tap water.

Pour flour and salt into a bowl convenient for kneading, pour out the water and stir by hand. As soon as the dough stops sticking to your hands, becomes an elastic mass, it is ready. The dough should be pliable enough to be easy to sculpt.

Dough drying technology

The finished dough can be dried in different ways. For example, leave the craft to dry on its own, making sure that it is not exposed to the sun and is on a flat surface. The dough cracks from exposure to sunlight.

It can be dried in the oven, which will take time, depending on the size of the craft, 3-6 hours, but with breaks after 1-2 hours. If you need to dry quickly, adjust the temperature from 75 to 100 degrees. The best way drying is the first.

Painting technology

You can use one of the two suggested colors for craft dough. One way is to paint the dried product with acrylic paints with an ordinary brush, gouache is also suitable. You need to turn to another type already when working on the preparation of the dough - use food colors. Add them, diluting in water, in a mass of flour and salt.

It is not enough to paint the dried craft, it needs to be treated with colorless nail polish or furniture, covering it with 2-3 layers, provided that each layer must be allowed to dry.

Original ideas for figurines from salt dough: master classes

Getting started with salt dough is not difficult by mastering the step-by-step crafts.

Star

Prepare salted dough, already painted in the desired color, a molding stack, colorless varnish, a toothpick.

Roll the dough into a circle, roll it flat, mark it with a stack and cut out a star, wet your hand and align the edges, pinch dots, eyes, mouth with a toothpick, decorate with balls of a different color. It remains to wait for the star to dry in order to varnish and dry it again.

Caterpillar

Following the instructions, prepare the dough by painting it, a knife, PVA glue, manicure varnish.

Roll the dough into a sausage, divide it into 6 identical pieces with a knife, make balls out of them, one of which is the head, the other five, stuck to each other - the body, separately mold the nose and eyes, glue them. Dry and varnish as usual. It remains to fit the suspension.

Apple

Prepare the dough of the desired color, glue and varnish.

Form one half of the apple out of the dough, aligning the back wall. Glue the center, stuck together separately, to it. Make seeds, leaves and stalk, glue. Dry in any way, varnish.

Elephant

The set is the same as for the apple.

Roll the dough into an oblong ball - the body, 4 plump sausages will become legs. Sculpt the trunk, eyes, tail. Pay attention to the ears: stick two more smaller ones and of a different color to 2 flat cakes. Collect the elephant sequentially: legs, then glue everything else to the body. After drying, varnish at least 2 layers.

Roses

Prepare not only the dough, but also foil, candy bowl, gouache with a brush, colorless varnish, a board for work, a knife.

Fill the candy vase with foil. Make roses, preparing 5 pieces of dough for each and 1 for a leaf. Blind the leaves and draw the strips with a knife. Roll 5 pieces into balls, make a tube from one, and make petals from the rest. Glue the finished roses on foil. Leave the product to dry and then brush with a varnish brush.

Hedgehog

For work, you will need to prepare dough, small scissors, glue, paints or gouache of your choice, varnish.

Roll out the body from the dough in the form of an oval with an elongated end. Make eyes from two small circles, sculpt a nose. Prepare needles from the dough cake using cuts, gluing them in a checkerboard pattern. The hedgehog is ready. You can start painting and varnishing procedures.

Owl

The set is the same as before.

For the body of the owl, you need to give the ball an oval shape. The eyes will require more effort: roll out a round cake from a ball of dough, glue it to the body with glue, pull out a strip from another piece of dough, roll it into a tube - you get an eye pupil. Use a nail file to trace small stripes from the pupils to the edges of the eye. Surround the eyes with drawn rays. Slowly, gently cut the dough into the torso with scissors to make feathers. Cut the dough in rows. Put the resulting owl on a board. For readiness, it remains to make and glue the legs. To do the hairstyle in the likeness of feathers, i.e. shape them with scissors and glue them. The main work is done. Then comes the usual process of drying, painting, varnishing.

Crafts from salt dough for beginners are mastered. You can move on to making small jobs with a slightly more complex technology.

Small fish

Prepare salted dough, a knife, a rolling pin, a baking sheet, a piece of paper, acrylic paints with a brush, a ribbon for hanging a finished fish, a shoehorn, a nail polish, a piece of sandpaper, a simple pencil.

  • Draw a fish in advance on a sheet of paper or download and print.
  • On a baking sheet sprinkled with flour, roll out the dough into a layer.
  • Using the prepared template attached to the dough on top, cut out a fish.
  • Form a strip from the remaining dough and attach it so as to separate the face from the body.
  • Make heart-shaped sponges.
  • The pupils will turn out if you press on their places with the blunt end of a pencil.
  • Make two holes on the fins with something round.
  • Press with the wide end of a shoe spoon to form fish scales.
  • Use the end of a knife to make cilia and draw stripes on the fins.
  • Now you can leave the craft to dry.
  • Sand the dried fish to smooth out irregularities.
  • Cover the craft with paint and dry.
  • Apply layers of varnish on the fish and leave to dry completely.
  • Hang the finished product on a ribbon.

Cat

Collect the same set of necessary items as for a fish plus a base with a frame.

The first steps are similar to the previous craft: prepare a template, cut a cat on it, dry it. Smooth out any roughness with emery paper. With a simple pencil, apply a drawing to the prepared cat's body, according to which to paint in the desired colors. After drying the cat, cover it with varnish and leave to dry completely. Now insert your product into the base with the frame and fix it with glue.

Making volumetric figures

Salted dough modeling has become a whole form of decorative art, thanks to interesting crafts. Salty dough, by its consistency, makes it possible to make voluminous figures. For example, flowers, the modeling of which is very fond of the fair sex.

It is not difficult to sculpt daisies: after rolling out the dough, make many petals at once. Having flattened the ball, get the middle. Natural materials are suitable for stems and leaves. It is advisable to place the resulting daisies in a basket woven from strips of dough. You can paint the dough or the finished product immediately using familiar technologies. Having mastered simple figures, you can proceed to the implementation of large ones: autumn crafts, Easter sets, paintings.

Thermal plastic will give everyone the joy of creativity, help to reveal unknown inclinations in oneself. In addition, crafts can become a home decoration, a souvenir, a surprise, a gift made from the heart and with love. You can please your loved ones by sculpting what they like best out of salted dough.

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