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Dough modeling (dough plastic) is one of the most popular types of creativity among children. She allows you to make an original and durable craft for home decoration with your own hands, whether it be a New Year's toy, a picture or a cute figurine.

The benefits of sculpting for children

Modeling has a very beneficial effect on the all-round development of a child of any age, namely:

• At the age of 1-3 years, fine motor skills of the hands are actively worked out. Kneading the material, creating forms, flattening, stretching, tearing off the dough develop a tactile sense (touch) in the child, contribute to the development of perception through touching with the fingers.
• Teaches the child patience and the ability to focus on the figure being created.
• Forms creativity, imaginative, logical and abstract thinking, especially in the process of mixing different colors and creating unusual shapes.
• Supports the interconnection of the two hemispheres of the brain (and subsequently develops memory) when using two hands at the same time (rolling a sausage or creating a ball).

It is very useful to sculpt figures according to a drawing with contours (the so-called plasticine pictures, in which it is necessary to paint over the figure with a sticky mass).

In this case, there is the formation of the processes of comparison, logic and concentration of attention on one image. This approach is recommended for children over 2 years old.

• Develops imagination (for example, if you invite a child to make a non-existent animal) and curiosity (to blind an insect and look for whom it looks like).
• Promotes the development of perception and smell when working with colored materials that have different smells. For preschool children, it is recommended to combine modeling (from a single-color mass) and painting the finished product with paints.
• Plays an important role in aesthetic education and understanding of the feeling of beauty.

Medical specialists also noted the positive effects of modeling on children's health:

• Pleasant emotions during regular exercise have a beneficial effect on the nervous system, calm the baby and normalize the mental state, which subsequently leads to a decrease in anxiety, sound and restful sleep.
• Sculpting colorful dough is a great way to cheer up (especially if you get everyone in the family involved).

Modeling from dough or plasticine helps to develop fine motor skills and speech

• If the child has some kind of internal fears, it is worth suggesting that he blind his fear and study it closer, making sure of safety. In this way, you can help to overcome phobia associated with insects or animals.
• In special children (diagnosed with autism), sculpting contributes to the formation of intelligible speech, establishing contacts and involvement in joint activities
• with a teacher and other children.
• The process of creating complex figurines from dough in combination with other materials (wooden skewers, toothpicks, beads, buttons, dry leaves, feathers) and demonstrating them to the people around them helps to raise children's self-esteem, to convince the child of the importance and uniqueness.

Advantages of Salted Modeling Dough

The modeling dough reminds children of the plasticine they are used to, but it has a number of advantages:

• The dough is an affordable and natural material for children's creativity (if not in the store, it can be easily made at home in 10 minutes from ordinary products (flour, salt, oil and water).
• Does not stick to hands and does not stain objects and furniture around.

Salted modeling dough for children has a number of advantages, one of them is hypoallergenic and edible

• Antiallergenic (especially if you make it yourself, and if you have wheat intolerance, it can be easily replaced with corn starch).
• Always soft (if stored properly, in a cool place and wrapped in plastic).
• Odorless (natural flavor, vanillin or cinnamon can be added to homemade dough to add flavor to baked goods).
• The finished dough figurine can be dried and painted, thus preserving it as a keepsake.
• The dough can be edible (as opposed to purchased plasticine).
• Homemade salted dough is an ideal material for the first lessons with young children (from 1 year old). If a child tastes it or swallows a piece of dough, it will not do any harm to the young body.
• Fresh dough is very plastic, it is pleasant to touch, and working with it brings extremely positive emotions.

Simple recipes for salt dough with your own hands

It will take only 10 - 15 minutes to make homemade dough for children's modeling. time and a few simple products usually found in any kitchen.

Products:

• Flour. For the sticky mass, wheat flour of excellent quality is traditionally used, since it contains the necessary gluten. If the dough is prepared without dye, then the finished mass will have a white color, and after drying in the oven, the product will acquire a pleasant ruddy shade.

Flour for salted dough should be taken exactly top grade

In some recipes, rye flour is used, respectively, the mass will turn out to be light brown. It is not recommended to use corn flour, since it has insufficient gluten content and the dough will lose its elasticity.

• Salt. In the dough, it is necessary to maintain shape during the molding process, and in finished products, salt protects against mold infestation and eating by rodents. It is best to use finely ground salt for the dough. It is not recommended to use sea ​​salt or stone (even ground in a coffee grinder), since it will still be felt in the dough mass.
• Water. It is the link between flour and salt. It is optimal to use clean filtered water of low temperature or ice water. The dough will be more elastic.
• Oil. This is an optional component of the creativity test. But if you add 1-2 tsp into the mass. any vegetable oil, the dough will become softer, pliable and elastic. And the baby's hands are moisturized during work.
• Additional ingredients. These include various substances that can improve the quality of the dough or give it color.

Citric acid will help extend the shelf life of salt dough

They are:

• Potato starch introduced in usual recipe in the amount of 1 tbsp. l., significantly increases the plasticity of the mass.
• Wallpaper glue is able to increase the strength of finished products after drying, if you add 1-2 tsp.
• Lemon juice or acid will become an excellent preservative and will extend the shelf life and use of the dough.
• Cream of tartar(this is a stone structure formed during the production of wine or grape juice at the bottom of containers) - a frequent ingredient in many recipes for children's creativity dough. It is added as a baking powder. In the store, it is sold as a white powder in the spice departments.
• Cinnamon or vanillin- aromatic additives.
• Natural dyes to give the dough different shades: turmeric or saffron powder (will give a yellow color), Bell pepper paprika (orange), coffee and cocoa (brown), dry ground spirulina or spinach juice (green tint), juices of various berries (from pink to burgundy).
• Food colorings or paints (gouache, watercolor) should be added to the dough only if a student or an adult will work with it.

It is recommended to put the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for several hours - this will make it more elastic.

A few things to consider when kneading creative dough:

• The process of making a sticky mass is best done on the table, carefully kneading the dough with your hands and monitoring its consistency by removing lumps.
• The mass should have a steep structure, if it turns out to be liquidish - add more flour and salt, if it is too strong - water.
• The kneaded dough should be removed for 2-3 hours in the cold and only then offered to the child. Cooling will make the mass more homogeneous and plastic.
• Liquid dyes are added to water, helium dyes are added to the finished mass, dry dyes are added to flour.

The classic sculpting dough recipe

Do-it-yourself modeling dough for children is very simple.

This will require:

• 1 tbsp. wheat flour;
• 1 tbsp. finely ground table salt;
• 0.5 tbsp. chilled water.

Salted modeling dough for children: step by step recipe

In a saucepan, combine flour with salt and add water in portions, stirring vigorously. Knead a tough but elastic dough. It will turn out to be white. Chill for two hours in the refrigerator and you can start creating masterpieces. It is recommended to dry the finished figures and paint them with paints or felt-tip pens.

PVA glue recipe

The addition of glue imparts significant strength to the finished dough products and promotes quick drying. This recipe interesting for those who plan to make Christmas tree decorations, figurines and keep the craft for a long time.

The glue will make the dough stronger

Incoming components:

• 1.5 tbsp. wheat flour;
• 1.5 tbsp. water;
• 1 tbsp. fine salt "Extra";
• 3-4 tbsp. l. glycerin;
• 4 tsp PVA glue (or powder for wallpaper);
• Dye optional.

Mix all the ingredients, add the glue last (if dry wallpaper glue is used, then it must first be diluted in water). Knead the dough. Refrigerate. Then you can sculpt crafts.

Starch recipe

DIY modeling dough for children can be made without using flour, replacing it with corn starch.

Such a dough turns out to be snow-white (if you do not use a dye) and very pleasant to the touch. Great for creating small figurines and small details. Bulky figures can crack when dry. Starch dough is dried on a warm battery in a couple of days.

Examples of two recipes for starch dough:

Flour-free recipe	Dough with butter and starch
2 tbsp. baking soda	1 tbsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. corn starch	1/2 tbsp. corn starch
1.5 tbsp. cold water	1/2 tbsp. cold water
oily hand cream	1 tbsp. l. odorless vegetable oil
Pour dry ingredients into a saucepan and fill them with water. Place on the stove and bring to a boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula. As soon as the consistency becomes similar to a thick cream, remove from heat and cool (cover the pan with a damp cloth so that a crust does not form). Knead the cooled mass with your hands greased with cream (so that the dough does not stick). Keep the finished dough in the refrigerator.	Any dye
	Flavor optional
	Combine soda with starch and water in a bowl, add dye. Heat the mass on the stove to a boil, stirring continuously until the density increases. Remove from heat, cool, cover with a damp cloth. Add oil, flavor and knead the dough. Add a little starch if necessary.

Food coloring recipe

Bright colored dough children like it much more than white, the more quickly the child learns to distinguish shades with it. There are many options for making colored dough; it can be classic salty, starchy or rye. It is the last type of dough that is proposed to be made with the introduction of food colors.

Food colors (gel) are added to the already kneaded dough

Components:

• 250 g rye flour(sifted through a sieve);
• 250 g wheat flour;
• 500 g of fine table salt;
• 2 tbsp. l. refined vegetable oil;
• 250-300 ml of cold water.
• Several helium food colors (yellow, red, blue, and green).

Mix available dry products and add water and oil. Knead the dough vigorously until plastic. Divide the mass into 5 equal parts. Set aside one part (it will remain brownish), and add dye to the others and mix again. As a result, you get 5 pieces of dough for modeling different colors. Store them separately from each other by wrapping each piece with cling film.

This is what a multi-colored dough might look like if you use more dyes.

Luminous dough

DIY modeling dough for children can be made glowing in the dark. However, this will be noticeable only under ultraviolet light. This kind of creativity will undoubtedly surprise and captivate the child. And parents should not worry, it is absolutely safe for children.

This is how it looks:

Required components for glow dough:

• 2 tbsp. warm water;
• 2 tbsp. wheat flour;
• 2/3 st. finely ground salts;
• 2 tbsp. l. any odorless vegetable oil;
• 2 tbsp. l. tartar (or apple cider vinegar);
• 2 ampoule of liquid vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin for injection, purchased at the pharmacy).

Mix dry ingredients, add oil, water, vitamin and vinegar (or tartar) to them. Mix the mass thoroughly and boil it on the stove until it becomes thick. Refrigerate and can be used for sculpting. The dough will glow yellow-green under UV light.

Dough with rye flour

Another version of the children's dough using rye flour (it is better to resort to mixing wheat and rye flour, so the mass will become more plastic).

Crafts made from dough cooked in rye flour have a pleasant brownish tint

Required:

• 3 tbsp. wheat flour;
• 1 tbsp. rye flour;
• 2 tbsp. salt;
• 1.5 tbsp. ice water.

Dough preparation:

1. Sift flour and mix well.
2. Add salt and water.
3. Stir vigorously: first with a spoon, then with your hands on the table.

The finished dough has a delicate brownish tint, from which original vintage crafts for decorating the kitchen or various coasters for hot dishes are obtained.

Play-Doh plasticine analog

"Play-Doh" is a brand of store-bought natural plasticine, which is rather a test for modeling as it consists of flour, salt, water, citric acid and bright dyes.

Its popularity among children is explained by the presence of molds in thematic sets for making different figures, templates, toys and, of course, by the richness of the colors. The minimum cost of one set is about 1000 rubles.

For thrifty parents, it is proposed to create a similar set at home, the cost of which will be several times lower, and the pleasure of sculpting is the same. You will need to look for some items in stores, print colored background pictures and make a suitable box (as an option, glue the shoe box with gift paper).

An example of creating a play set:

1. Prepare a multi-colored plastic mass and pack each color in a small plastic container with a lid.
2. Purchase cookie cutters for one theme.
3. Get some small sandbox molds.
4. Print step-by-step figurine making templates and backgrounds from the Internet.
5. Add missing elements to the set (in accordance with the applicable templates). For example, if you choose the theme "animals", then you need to find confectionery and baby molds in the form of animals in stores. Also print out instructions for making animals and trees from dough with pictures that a child can understand. Add eyes, beads, toothpicks, sticks, a plastic disposable knife, and colored paper to the set.
6. Place all material in a large box for storage.

An example of a home set "Animals in the Forest" in the following photos:

To prepare a plastic mass for modeling, you will need:

• 2 tbsp. sifted wheat flour;
• 1 tbsp. fine table salt;
• 1 tbsp. l. citric acid (crystalline);
• 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• 1 tbsp. cold water;
• Bright food colors of different colors (the more the better).

First you need to prepare a colorless dough - the base. Mix dry ingredients with oil in a saucepan and pour in water. Heat over a fire until boiling, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon. Remove from the stove at the moment when the mass thickens and becomes homogeneous.

Cool the mixture and knead with your hands on a floured table. Divide the dough into equal pieces and add colorings to each piece. Knead all the pieces separately. Place the finished material in containers and cool.

Salt mass in the microwave

DIY dough for kids can be made using a microwave oven.

To cook salty dough in the microwave, you need coarse flour

The process of heating the components of the sticky mass takes only 5 minutes. This is one of the most quick ways creating a test for creative crafts with children.

You need to take:

• 2 cups of water;
• 2 cups of wholemeal flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 1 tsp olive oil;
• 1 tsp tartar or apple cider vinegar;
• dye optional.

Sequence of actions: first mix all the dry ingredients, then add water, oil, dye to them.

Mix thoroughly and microwave for 5 minutes. Set the heating mode to medium.

Cool the resulting mixture and knead the dough with your hands. Keep the finished dough in the cold.

How to make edible plasticine

Often, a child really wants to taste what he just blinded, especially if it is a figurine of ice cream or cake. In this case, edible sweet plasticine will be a great alternative to salty dough, which is easy to cook at home.

The main ingredient is marshmallow - these are airy baby candies similar to marshmallows and marshmallows consisting of sugar (corn syrup), gelatin, dextrose and flavor.

They look like this:

Necessary products for plasticine:

• 1 pack of marshmallows (it is better to take plain or white candies);
• Powdered sugar (the amount will depend on the volume of the candy mass);
• Dye optional.

Algorithm of actions: put all the candies in a plate and melt them in a microwave oven at maximum power (it takes 1-2 minutes) to form a thick cream. Then stir gently with a spoon, making sure that the mass is homogeneous, and let it cool.

Gradually add the icing sugar and knead with your hands. At the end, add the dye and knead again. If you initially take a dyed marshmallow (of the same color), then the dye can be omitted.

The finished plasticine turns out to be sweet and very beautiful, with a noble pearl shine, as in the photo.

How to make choux pastry for modeling

To make crafts made of dough shine, professional craftsmen add glycerin to the recipe, and the sticky base is prepared in a custard way.

In a bowl, mix 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil with the same amount of tartar, 400 g of wheat flour and 100 g of fine salt. Boil 2 cups of water separately and add 1/2 tsp of the prepared mixture into it. glycerin and coloring matter.

Drying salt dough at home

An unusual product made by children's hands can be saved as a keepsake if the craft is properly dried.

Drying the dough on the battery Drying the dough in the oven

There are several options for drying the dough:

• In a preheated oven. The baking sheet must be covered with parchment for baking and put the figures. Send to dry in an oven at 80 degrees for 60 minutes. An important point - the oven door should be kept ajar.
• Drying in the sun. A longer but natural process takes 3-4 days. To do this, put the craft on a wooden or plastic tray and make sure that there is no rain.
• Drying on a battery(a great way in the winter season). Place the form on paper and leave on the battery for 2-3 days.

If the basis of the craft is flour or starch-based dough, then hot air drying can make the figurine more durable and protect it from crackling. But, if the child used edible plasticine (based on marshmallow and sugar), drying is recommended when room temperature and on a flat surface.

How to store the modeling dough

Optimal storage period home test averages 30 days. If citric acid (or lemon juice) is added to the recipe, then the period will increase by another 2-3 weeks.

The correct way to store the dough to stay fresh and soft is to wrap each piece (if the mass is multi-colored) in plastic wrap or pack it in yogurt jars with a tight lid. The main task is to prevent moisture evaporation and crust formation. The packaged dough must be kept cold at a temperature of +5 degrees (the bottom of the refrigerator).

Dough molding is a great way to diversify children's leisure time, suitable even for long trips. Making a train or plane with your own hands during the trip will be much more interesting and healthier for a child than watching cartoons from your phone screen.

Article design: Natalie Podolskaya

Modeling dough video

Modeling dough for children - how to make at home, detailed video instructions:

Both children and adults love to sculpt from salt dough. This is an extremely fascinating process, which is called testoplasty or bioceramics. And he also has another very funny name - mukasolka. As you already understood, it consists of two parts - flour and salt. Therefore, all you need is to know how to make salty dough at home, which is not difficult at all and does not require a lot of time or money.

How to make salted sculpting dough at home - tips

In general, there are no particular difficulties here. All salt dough recipes are very similar and easy to follow. All you need is salt, flour, and some water. The main differences lie only in the absence of other components - food coloring, tartar or citric acid. You need to take the most ordinary flour for the dough, without any additives or baking powder. It is best to use cheap low-grade flour as it contains more gluten. Crafts made from fine flour, of course, turn out to be more elegant, however, when dried, they crack more strongly and may even deform.

As for the salt in the modeling dough, it must be fine and free from possible inclusions. Therefore, it is best to use "Extra". The dough does not need too much salt, as this makes the finished product brittle. They break easily. Try to make the dough by different recipes and choose the one that works best for you, the one that is easiest for you to work with. When studying a recipe with a dough, pay attention to the measure of the indicated products: flour - 1 cup weighs about 100 grams, salt - 1 cup weighs about 200 grams. If you knead the modeling dough, but it crumbles during work, just add a little more water to the dough, if the dough is too sticky, add flour. Unused salted dough should be placed in a plastic bag or tightly sealed food container and kept in the refrigerator.

How to make salted modeling dough - recipe for children from flour

Here is the easiest salt dough recipe for kids. It can be prepared from what you always have at hand.

Ingredients:

• flour - 1.5 cups;
• Extra salt - 1 glass;
• water - 0.5 cups.

Just mix all the ingredients and knead the dough just like you would when making dumplings. Of course, you know that the longer you knead the dough, the more elastic it becomes, stops crumbling and does not stick to your hands. This test is safe for children to play.

Colored salt dough for home sculpting - recipe with juice

In order for your products to acquire color, and it would be more interesting for children to play with dough and sculpt from it, you can cook salty dough according to this recipe.

Ingredients:

• wheat flour - 1 glass;
• fine salt - 1 glass;
• sunflower oil - 5 tablespoons:
• berry juice, vegetable or colored gouache;
• water - as needed.

Pour the flour into a bowl, add salt, a little gouache or berry juice there and vegetable oil... With juice, the dough will be absolutely safe for children. Begin kneading the dough, gradually adding water until you get the consistency you want.

How to make chouxed salted modeling dough - recipe for kids

Yes, salted dough for sculpting figures can be choux and make it not much more difficult than other.

Ingredients:

• flour - 1 glass;
• fine salt - ¼ glass;
• water - 100 ml;
• any suitable colorant is optional.

Pour water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil, reduce heat so that the water continues to boil slightly, add salt, add vegetable oil, add selected food coloring. It will be more interesting for your child to play with a modeling dough if you make it in several different colors. Pour the flour in a thin stream, stirring constantly, and cook until the mixture thickens. Remove from heat, place on a floured flat surface and knead the modeling dough until it has the necessary elasticity and no longer sticks to your hands.

How to make salt dough for modeling with your own hands - a recipe with glycerin and wallpaper glue

This recipe will help you make dough for making small items or small parts of your work. It turns out to be delicate, elastic and practically does not crack, which is very important, especially if you want to preserve the products.

Ingredients:

• flour - 1.5 cups;
• salt - 1 glass;
• wallpaper glue - 2 tablespoons;
• glycerin - 2 tablespoons;
• water - 0.5 cups.

Mix all the ingredients for the dough - first dry, then add glycerin and, gently kneading the dough, gradually pour in the water. Knead the salted dough on a flat, floured surface until it acquires the desired consistency, elasticity, and no longer sticks to your hands.

How to make salty sculpting dough in the microwave - recipe for kids

You can also make the modeling dough in the microwave. This recipe is very unusual, but it does not provide labor.

Ingredients:

• flour - 2 cups;
• fine or Extra salt - 1 glass;
• water - 2 glasses;
• vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
• tartar - 1 tablespoon;
• food dyes - optional.

Place flour in a glass or plastic container. Add salt and mix the modeling dough well until smooth. Add other ingredients gradually, stirring, then cover and microwave. The mode should be medium, the time should be 4 minutes. Remove the container with salt dough from the microwave, put the dough on a flat, floured surface, let cool and knead until elastic.

Video with a recipe for making salt dough for modeling

Our distant ancestors decorated the surface of loaves with figured images of spikelets, berries, leaves before baking to attract good luck and receive blessings from their deities. Today we are doing this without any religious background, just for the sake of beauty.

In addition to decorating edible products, the use of a special composition of dough allows you to create very effective and beautiful decorative figures, pictures and flowers. In this case, the dough perfectly replaces more difficult and expensive materials, therefore it is ideal for small children. But this is such a fascinating activity that respectable adults are also happy to do it.

Anyone can use salted dough for self-expression and relaxation, it is only important to know how to make a durable and plastic material, as well as to competently dry and paint the finished product.

The subtleties of making dough for crafts

The molding of products itself is no different from working with plasticine or other similar materials. The advantage of salted dough is that it is more plastic, less stains on hands and surrounding objects, gives more opportunities for complex work, and also keeps well after proper drying, becoming hard and durable.

1. The difficulty lies in how to cook correct dough that will not stick to hands and tools, will not crack and crumble. To do this, you need to use a few simple tips:
2. Do not use pancake flour for work - it is more sticky and the dough will turn out to be of a poor consistency.
3. Use only fine "Extra" salt. Coarse salt will create coarse crumbling dough due to grains when kneaded directly in dry form, and the dissolution of such salt in water will be too long in time. In addition, the rock salt may contain impurities that will stain the modeling dough, and the "Extra" salt is refined and very fine.

By diluting the flour with ice water, you can get an excellent, plastic and very homogeneous dough.

With these simple tips, you can start working with your kids to create a variety of products of great beauty. Salted dough is a simple, inexpensive and very accessible material for creativity, and children are just crazy about such a useful entertainment.

Used tools and materials

When we sculpt from salt dough, we need special tools to work. They are all found in our homes, in our kitchens or among office supplies, sewing materials and handicrafts.

Basic tools and materials for work:

• Rolling pin for rolling out the dough. If it is not available or the one available is too large for children's hands, you can find a replacement in the form of an ordinary glass bottle.
• Knife for cutting dough. Children can be given a plastic knife from a set of colored plasticine.
• Board for rolling out dough and making products.
• Paints for coloring (watercolor, acrylic, gouache - any water-soluble dyes).
• Finishing varnishes (water-based, best sprayed). Additionally, you can use spray varnishes "with special effects" - "snow", with sparkles, gold, silver or other metallized varnish.
• A set of brushes for coloring.
• A container with water.
• Forms for cookies.
• Various items for giving texture to the finished product - toothbrushes, combs, knitting needles, buttons, lace and much more.

For small children, special clothing should be provided, as they can get very dirty. Before work, stock up on a pack of dry and wet wipes - they are convenient not only to clean your hands, but also to get your brushes wet from excess paint. In this way, it will be possible to avoid the spreading of dyes on the finished thing.

Three best recipes

To knead salted dough, you can use your own hands or entrust this process to modern technology - a mixer or kneader. With their help, you can get a particularly smooth and elastic dough.

In order for the finished product not to crumble, salt must first be poured with the required volume of water, and then thoroughly mixed with flour. It is important to mix the product well until it is completely homogeneous, otherwise, when drying, the finished item may crack or fall apart into separate pieces.

Basic recipe:

• A glass of flour (wheat or rye).
• A glass of finely ground salt of the "Extra" type.
• Half a glass of ice water.

Mix ingredients and knead dough until smooth. This recipe is great for delicate items such as flowers, leaves, ornamental plants, and more.

Plastic Soft Dough Recipe:

• Flour - one glass.
• Fine salt - one glass.
• The water is very cold - half a glass.
• Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons.

Instead of oil, you can take glycerin, a fairly fatty cream, or cooking oil. The introduction of fats or oils into the recipe for salted dough makes its consistency more plastic and elastic, as well as avoids cracking of the product after drying. This option is especially suitable for "thick-walled" products that can crack if the dough is completely dry.

To work with fine details or many small elements, you will need to use an improved recipe for salt dough:

• 1.5 cups flour.
• 1 glass of salt.
• 0.5 cups of water.
• 2 - 3 tablespoons of PVA glue, wallpaper glue like "Methylan" or any other water-soluble glue.

Such dough perfectly holds its shape, it is possible to make small thin elements from it, and with definitely "stuffed" hands you can make things that are outwardly indistinguishable from good porcelain.

Any recipe for salty dough can be regarded as a basis, since you can endlessly modify it "for yourself", experimenting with different ingredients until the correct composition is obtained.

How to dry salty dough perfectly

The main difficulty for beginners is the technology of drying the finished product. Drying can be done in different ways:

• “Bake” in a preheated oven like a regular cookie, at a temperature ranging from 50 to 80 degrees (depending on the size and thickness of the product). The finished piece is placed on baking parchment paper and placed in a preheated oven for about an hour. The processing time depends on the dimensions of the product. Until it cools completely oven the thing is not taken out of it.
• Drying in a cold oven, that is, the product is placed in a cold oven, heating is turned on and brought to the desired temperature. Everything else is exactly the same as in the previous paragraph.
• Salted doughs are best simply air-dried, although this is time-consuming. A well-dried craft becomes strong, firm and not subject to external influences. Regular drying is great for small items or delicate items.

Do not use electrical appliances or a central heating battery for drying. They dry out the dough unevenly, which can cause cracking or damage to the thing if it is dry on only one side, has a dry surface and "damp insides".

Dyes and finishing materials used

When preparing salty dough, the dye can be injected directly into the product itself and get a material very similar to plasticine. But the difficulty in this case will be working with the material - you will have to connect separate colored parts, and for kids it is too difficult. Everyone loves to work with paints, so for children it is preferable to use the painting of a ready-made monochromatic thing.

The easiest way to work is to use water-soluble paints. Acrylic dyes are very good - they give a dense and uniform color, have a large color palette and are easy to use, dry quickly. But you can also use ordinary watercolors. It gives an excellent translucent layer, and paints can be layered with glazes to obtain special effects - volume, transition of tones, overflows and the acquisition of various textures. If there is a need to obtain opaque staining with watercolors, you can use a white primer. It can be played by white acrylic paint, gouache or tempera with the addition of PVA glue to hold it on the surface of the product.

For decoration, you can use voluminous paints, metallized dyes, beads of different sizes and shapes, buttons, rhinestones and other little things that do not deteriorate from high temperatures if you plan to dry in the oven.

Is it worth covering the crafts with varnish

In principle, a finished piece of salt dough holds the paint very well, but if you plan to use this thing, for example, for games, or it is a chess piece, a decorative vase, a box, in a word, a thing that will suffer from constant touch, then it should be covered varnish. It will not only protect the finished products from external influences, but also give a beautiful glossy shine, which is necessary for many types of crafts.

The easiest way is to use the varnish in an aerosol, performing the treatment outdoors or in a well-ventilated area. If necessary, varnishing can be repeated several times, drying well each previous layer. To give a special decorative effect, you can use special sprays, for example, with the effect of snow or with sparkles.

Types of salted dough products

For kids or beginners, you need to use simpler forms and objects that they understand. You can start sculpting with traditional cats or dogs, fruits and berries, cars and other simple figures without numerous and complex details. Gradually, with an increase in the level of skill and the young sculptors themselves, the work can be complicated, moving on to the creation of figures, paintings and compositions.

The pinnacle of craftsmanship can be considered the creation of flowers from bioceramics, as salted dough is also called. Of course, even a baby can blind a simple chamomile, but only an "advanced" user can make a full-fledged bouquet of roses or a flowering branch of jasmine.

To learn how to work with salt dough, you need to follow the instructions step by step and not rush to tackle complex products.

Various panels and paintings from dough with salt

Making paintings from dough is not as difficult as it seems. At the first stages of creativity, it is worth using the hint in the form of a photograph of the future “work of art”. For example, let's say you want to create a beautiful autumn landscape. Find a beautiful photo with few small details and use it for inspiration.

• A piece of thin plywood is suitable as a basis for the picture, but if it is absent, you can also use thick cardboard. A rolled layer of dough is applied to the surface of the base. It can be glued with any suitable glue.
• All the details of the future painting are cut out or sculpted from salt dough and superimposed on each other as they move away from the background of the painting. That is, the objects farthest from the viewer will be laid out on the base first. This method will allow you to get very accurate and expressive volumetric images.
• The finished painting is thoroughly dried and then painted with suitable paints. After the paints have dried, the painting is varnished and placed in a frame. The product is ready, you can hang it on the wall in the room or give it to someone who can appreciate the creativity and talent of the artist.

If you use foil as the basis for the product, the dried and painted part can be easily removed from it and then transferred to any other material. It can be a dense fabric stretched over a frame, glass, plastic, even metal. Such flat and at the same time voluminous products can be used to decorate caskets, decorate children's furniture, boxes with various things, or use for identification, for example, lockers for things in a kindergarten locker room.

Bioceramic figurines and dolls

For kids, there is nothing more interesting than sculpting "little men". They really like "cartoon" characters, for example, fixies, Masha from a cartoon about a bear, heroes of comics and fairy tales. Not only figurines and dolls can be made from salted dough, but also various houses, benches, trees, fountains - in a word, everything that imagination can suggest.

If you plan to make large enough figures, you should take care of the inner frame and stands for stable standing. As a support for small plastics, matches with a sulfur head removed, plastic and wooden toothpicks are suitable, for larger items, cocktail skewers or sticks for Asian cuisine may be required. Save wooden ice cream sticks - they can form the basis of many different products.

For stability, the figures need to be placed on a salted dough base in the shape of a circle or oval - this will ensure a flat plane.

If the figure is depicted in motion, it may be necessary to create a wire frame - it will help in sculpting and will not allow the finished product to crumble.

In addition to volumetric, three-dimensional figures of people and animals, salt dough can be used to create various fruits or vegetables. They are beautiful both in themselves and as part of various compositions. For example, elegant fruits can be effectively laid out on a beautiful dish and decorated with them in the kitchen or dining room.

Flat figures can be cut using cookie cutters. Hearts can become original valentines, Christmas trees can decorate New Year's table, flowers - used to indicate places when seating guests at the holiday. Only imagination can limit the scope of application of various dough products.

Spectacular flowers and plants from mukosolka

The pinnacle of craftsmanship is delicate and graceful flowers from mukosolka, as the salted dough is also called. This work requires a lot of perseverance, talent and accuracy, so it is more suitable for adults and adolescents. Toddlers can successfully sculpt stylized flowers of simple shapes.

How to mold a complex volumetric flower, for example, a rose?

• You need to take a piece of dough and roll it into a drop-shaped core. The base of the drop is the bottom of the flower.
• Then you need to roll out the dough thinly and cut rose petals of different sizes and shapes from it.
• By carefully placing one petal after another on the teardrop-shaped base, you can get a blank rose. To make it look like a real flower, each petal must be carefully bent, giving it its natural shape and shape.
• At the end of the work, you need to create a flower cup with unfolded sepals, cut out some beautiful leaves with carved edges and connect all the parts together using wire and pieces of salt dough.
• Finished crafts are left to dry completely, and then painted in the selected colors.

According to this principle, you can create any flowers, whole bouquets, complex compositions and even imitation of plants in pots. The choice of the plot depends on the imagination and creativity of the creator. A good example can become a cute cactus, which should be kept near the computer. A living plant, even as stable as a cactus, may not survive in an office environment, but a lovely prickly creature made of salt dough will perfectly survive any disasters.

How to deal with possible problems

In any work, mistakes may appear, or things may not go at all as expected. Even if you do everything in stages, taking into account all the nuances, product defects may appear. Basically, these are cracking and chipping of individual parts of the product.

Cracks in crafts appear due to the incorrect composition of the dough, errors in drying, or the beginning of coloring the finished thing with incomplete drying of the base. If the cracks are small or the surface of the product is covered with a fine mesh of small cracks, they can be repaired.

To do this, you need to finally dry the thing, and then carefully sand the defects with sandpaper of varying degrees of abrasiveness. The surface can be brought to the ideal with velvet sandpaper. Then the surviving cracks can be filled with dough and salt slightly diluted with water. The procedure may have to be repeated several times if the cracks are very deep.

The lesson learned will teach that the basis of the future thing needs to be paid much more attention than even finishing - not only depends on its quality appearance the product itself, but also the very fact of its existence.

It happens that during the drying process, part of the product simply falls off, especially often this happens with thin parts or fragile small fragments. Sometimes elements of work break off during scheduling when too intense exposure. In order to repair a toy with an even break-off line, you can use ordinary PVA glue. It is necessary to apply layers of glue carefully so that ugly streaks do not form. The finished and dried thing must be treated with emery and re-painted and varnished.

If a product made of fresh dough breaks, it is enough to moisten the break points with water, press the individual parts against each other and wait for the setting. Decorate the dried work as planned.

You can try to restore a damaged figurine with the loss of individual elements by replacing the missing parts with pieces of fresh dough. Dry and fresh elements may not bond securely, so after the new parts dry, they may need to be glued for strength.

Give yourself and your children the pleasure of creativity, because working with the dough is easy and pleasant, and the cost of materials is scanty. The result of the work can exceed any expectations!

We offer you to immerse yourself in the world of art without leaving your apartment! And to make it easier for you to master a new lesson, we have prepared useful tips and master classes.

• 1 Features of working with salty dough
  • 1.1 How to make a modeling dough
  • 1.2 Tools Needed for Creativity
  • 1.3 Basic drying methods
  • 1.5 What is varnishing for
  • 1.6 Possible problems and solutions
• 2 Crafts from salt dough
  • 2.3 Symbolic figurines-mukosolki
• 3 Helpful Tips

Features of working with salty dough

The origins of this type of creativity are deeply rooted in the history of our culture. The same Kolobok is an excellent artistic example of a salted dough product.

Everyone can work with the test. Surely you have a handful of flour in your home! In addition, the dough is much more plastic than plaster and more durable than plasticine.

How to make a modeling dough

If you finally decided to master the process of making crafts, then it will be useful to learn how to make salty dough. We offer several options for recipes, from which you can choose any one you like.

• 1 tbsp. fine salt;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 5 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• water;
• colored gouache or natural juice.

Stir dry ingredients in a deep container, add oil and some water. For the dough to acquire a certain color, gently stir in juice (for example, carrot or beetroot).

• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 125 ml of water.

Mix everything and knead the dough, like for dumplings. To sculpt thin relief figures, add one more to choose from: 1 tbsp. l. PVA glue, 1 tbsp. l. starch or a mixture of wallpaper glue and water.

• 2 tbsp. wheat flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 125 ml of water;
• 1 tbsp. l. hand cream (vegetable oil).

Combine all ingredients and knead well until smooth. You can use a blender or mixer to speed up the process. The dough is very soft and pliable.

• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. finely ground salts;
• 125 ml of water.

This is a recipe for salt dough for making large items. First of all, combine the salt with flour, and then pour in a little water, kneading until an elastic mass is obtained.

• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 4 tbsp. l. glycerin (sold at the pharmacy);
• 2 tbsp. l. wallpaper glue + 125-150 ml of water.

This dough is well suited for making delicate works. For mixing, we recommend using a mixer - it makes the task much easier.

The tools you need for creativity

In addition to the fact that you need to learn how to make salty dough for modeling, it is also important to prepare the necessary tools and a set of accessories:

All this will be useful to you for creative work with the test.

Basic drying methods

When the product is ready, it must be properly dried. There are several methods. Let's consider the most popular ones.

Method 1 - In the oven (preheated)

Drying in a slightly open oven at a temperature of 55-80 ° C (the craft is placed in a preheated oven). Place the product on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or in a heat-resistant container. The process can take about an hour or longer, depending on the size of the figurine.

Method 2 - Natural conditions

This refers to drying in the open air (but not in direct sunlight). This method takes longer than the first one, but it is more efficient. The product is best placed on a wooden or plastic surface. Air drying takes about 3-4 days. But we do not recommend drying on a battery - this can lead to the fact that the craft will crack and crumble.

Method 3 - Oven (cold)

According to this method, crafts made from salted dough should be placed in a cold oven and only then turned on, eventually heating up to 150 ° C. In the same place, the products should also cool down while the oven cools down.

Unpainted dough figurines are attractive in themselves. However, after drying, they can be painted with gouache, watercolors or acrylics. They are good because they dry quickly, do not smudge and do not leave marks on your hands.

Dyeing methods:

1. Stir the watercolors with a brush with some water and apply to the product so that they do not spread.
2. Mix the gouache with PVA glue, evenly cover the craft with this mixture.
3. You can give the dough a certain color even while kneading. Divide it into parts - there should be as many of them as you need to paint in shades. Roll balls out of them, make a depression in the middle of each and drop a couple of drops there food coloring diluted in water. After that, knead the dough so that it is colored evenly.

Salted dough sculpting also allows you to use various elements for decoration. It can be cereals, pasta, buttons, shells, beads, all kinds of threads and ribbons. The scope for imagination is unlimited!

What is varnishing for?

Finished products are varnished so that the paint does not fade and does not wash off, and the appearance of the work does not deteriorate over time. Varnishing is used when necessary and exclusively at the request of the author.

You can add shine to the product with varnish:

• liquid - they need to cover the product in several layers, the result is rosy and natural;
• thick - it better protects the craft from moisture, you can use both a lacquer that gives a mirror shine, and a matte one.

It is preferable to use an aerosol varnish. A single application is enough for the colors to sparkle, and the work becomes protected from damage.

Although, practice shows that proper drying does not even allow you to resort to varnishing - the product will retain its original appearance for many years.

Possible problems and solutions

Here is a list of problems that can arise when drying or decorating a toy from salt dough:

1. The dough is covered with bubbles or cracks after drying. This can be caused by the wrong choice of flour or failure to follow the drying rules. The simplest and most inexpensive flour is suitable for modeling - low-grade rye or wheat. And the product should be dried without unnecessary haste in a slightly preheated oven with the door ajar. In general, it is better if the craft dries naturally.
2. The product is cracked after staining. This can happen if you start painting the craft that is not yet dry enough. Air dry it, smooth out the roughness with sandpaper and re-paint.
3. The product is cracked due to its great thickness. In this case, the excess dough must be removed from the back or bottom. And in order for a large product to dry evenly in the oven, it must be periodically turned over.
4. An element has broken off. You can try to glue it with PVA glue, but it's better to just smooth out the unevenness and decorate it with some kind of decoration.
5. The craft faded after staining. Additional varnish coating can return the color to its former saturation and make the craft brighter.

Salt dough crafts

According to some assumptions, the first dough moldings were used by chefs to decorate baked goods. Today, anything can be sculpted from such a wonderful material: paintings, souvenir figurines, and toys.

So, when you already know how to make salty dough, let's start creating, in fact, crafts from it.

Do you want something interesting?

You will need:

• fine table salt;
• Wheat flour;
• cold water;
• foil;
• brush;
• whitewash;
• gouache;
• black marker.

Step-by-step sequence of actions:

1. Connect in equal proportions flour and fine salt, add a little water.
2. Knead an elastic dough and send it to chill in the refrigerator for two hours.
3. After this time, you can start sculpting. We sculpt 4 balls from salted dough. These will be the legs of the lamb. Place them as shown in the picture.
4. Roll up a piece of foil and place it in the dough. Then a ball must be rolled out of the cake - this is the body of a lamb, it must be laid on top of its legs.
5. Now from the pieces of dough, mold the head, curl horns, ears and eyes.
6. To get something like curly sheep's wool, roll up many small balls and place them evenly on the back of our animal.
7. The workpiece is ready. It remains to place it in the oven, preheated to the minimum temperature. The lamb should dry thoroughly without cracking. At a temperature of 50 ° C, it will take about 3 hours to dry and another half an hour to cool.
8. Then cover the entire surface of the figurine with white. Wait for them to dry completely.
9. Color the lamb with gouache. And with the help of a permanent marker, you can draw eyelashes, a mouth, outline the horns and other details as you wish.
10. Finally, varnish the lamb. The varnish will add shine and smoothness to the craft, giving the craft a finished look.

Testoplasty allows you to create not only small volumetric souvenirs, but also whole pictures from salt dough. Of course, creating them will require some skill, patience and perseverance. However, the result can exceed all expectations, becoming a wonderful gift for loved ones or decoration of the interior of your home.

We act in stages:

1. The creation of a picture, like any other dough crafts, begins with the preparation of the dough itself. There are many different variations of recipes, but the most popular is this: 1 tbsp. finely ground salts, 2 tbsp. flour, 200 ml of water. Knead an elastic, salty craft dough, wrap it in a plastic bag, and refrigerate it for a couple of hours.
2. Take out the finished material and you can start creating, pinching off a piece of dough from the bag (it quickly becomes covered with a crust in the air).
3. Use water instead of glue to connect the parts together.
4. It is most convenient to create a picture on foil. It is imperative to dry the result: in the oven or in the air.
5. When the craft is dry, paint it with gouache and cover with two coats of varnish.
6. Finally, attach the painting to a canvas or any other framed fabric.

All sorts of cats, birds, snowmen, bears, dachshunds, flowers and much more look very beautiful. You can create pictures based on the plot of a particular fairy tale - this will be especially interesting for children. You can see some examples of works for inspiration in the pictures.

Symbolic figurines-mukosolki

Salted dough is a great alternative to clay... And crafts from it can become a unique decoration of your home or original idea for a gift. It has long been believed that the mukosolka in the house is a symbol of prosperity and family well-being.

Regardless of what kind of figures you plan to make, the dough for them can be prepared according to one of the recipes above.

Here are some more examples of mukosolki design, which are easy to make, but look amazing!

1. Each recipe for salty dough for crafts involves the use of exclusively wheat or rye flour (but definitely not pancake) and finely ground salt (not iodized, since the dough will not turn out to be homogeneous, but with large inclusions).
2. Use very cold water for mixing. Add it in portions, kneading the dough carefully. Depending on the flour you choose, you may need a different amount of water.
3. The dough should not stick to your hands or crumble. If it doesn't stick well, add a little water, and if it sticks, add a little flour.
4. Salted dough is perfectly stored in the refrigerator in a plastic bag or in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Use it piece by piece as needed, because the finished dough in the air quickly becomes covered with a dry crust, which spoils the appearance of the products. The shelf life of the test is 1 week.
5. Crafts made from small elements look sleeker. To make the parts stick well to each other, moisten the joints with water using a brush.
6. To tint the dough itself, add a little food coloring diluted in water (for easter eggs). You can create new shades from the dough of different colors: to do this, simply knead the multi-colored pieces with your fingers.

Testoplasty is not just child's play, but also a corrective lesson that allows you to develop fine motor skills of the hands, perseverance and imagination of babies, bringing up an aesthetic taste. And for adults, it's a great way to express yourself and rejuvenate. We wish you inspiration, and let your creativity be only a joy!