Christmas decorations from dough. Salt dough heart

Most people associate this holiday with magic and fun. Decorating a Christmas tree in many apartments turns into a real ritual, in which all family members, including the smallest household members, take part. In order to make it more interesting for kids to prepare for the holiday, they can be offered to make New Year's toys from salt dough with their own hands. Such decorations will look original on the forest beauty and, most importantly, they will be completely unique. It is best to create toys with the whole family - this is a great way to have fun and usefully spend your free time, introducing the younger generation to creativity.

Salt dough preparation methods

To make Christmas decorations beautiful and durable, you need to properly make the dough for them. There are several options for its preparation. For the first method you will need:

• flour - 1 cup;
• salt - 1 cup;
• vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
• cold water - about 125 ml (its volume depends on the quality of the flour).

The dough is kneaded from the prepared components. It should be elastic and plastic. The resulting dough is covered with cellophane and placed in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours. After that, it can be used to make Christmas tree decorations.

There is another recipe by which you can make salt dough. New Year's toys from such material will differ in the increased durability. For him, you need to prepare:

• flour - 1 cup;
• salt - 2/3 cup;
• PVA glue - about 15 ml;
• cold water - 100 ml.

The dough, as in the first version, after mixing all the components, should turn out to be quite elastic and keep its shape perfectly. Water must be mixed into the mass in small portions, making sure that it does not turn out to be too rare. Salt dough prepared in this way hardens quickly, so it should be used immediately after kneading.

Necessary tools and decor elements

To make New Year's toys from salt dough with your own hands, in addition to the raw materials themselves, you will need to prepare a convenient wooden board on which the entire creative process will take place. You will also need a rolling pin, a plastic plasticine knife, curly molds, acrylic paints and several brushes of different thicknesses. For decorating crafts, you can use everything that is found in the house (for example, beads, beads, sequins or rain).

The process of making toys

Having prepared everything you need, you can start creating masterpieces from dough together with your child. The easiest way is to make flat figures using molds. It can be stars, hearts, Christmas trees, angels, the contours of various animals, etc. To make such toys, you need to roll out the dough on a board (it should be from 0.6 to 1.5 cm thick), and then cut out different figures from it using the prepared molds. The more crafts you get, the better. Since the toys will be hung on the Christmas tree, you need to remember to make holes in them (for this purpose, it is most convenient to use a toothpick or a match).

The finished figures are dried for one hour in an oven heated to 80 degrees, or on a hot battery. You can let the Christmas tree decorations dry on their own by spreading them out on a piece of parchment paper and leaving them on the table, but in this case they will harden for several days.

If there are no molds in the house, there is no need to despair. Funny New Year's figurines can be cut out of rolled out dough with an ordinary plasticine knife. In all other respects, the process of their manufacture is no different from the method described above.

Decoration of figurines

Salt dough Christmas toys should be painted after they are completely dry. They can be covered with one or more colors, draw funny faces and patterns on them. To keep beads, buttons, bows and other decorative elements firmly on the products, it is best to fix them on the surface with PVA glue. When the paint and glue on the toys dry, colored ribbons are threaded through them. Unusual and very beautiful DIY Christmas decorations are ready. They can be hung on the Christmas tree with the child.

Important nuances

There is nothing easier than hand-made New Year's toys from salt dough. The photos of Christmas tree decorations presented in this article are only a small part of what can be made from this plastic material. Modeling toys, like any other kind of creativity, requires imagination. Salt dough is a versatile material, and you can create figures for a Christmas tree of any complexity from it. However, it is worth remembering that they should not be too thin or excessively thick, because in the first case, the products will come out fragile and break quickly, and in the second, they will turn out to be heavy and will pull the spruce branches down.

Good afternoon, today we have finally completed a large selection of ideas for New Year's crafts from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. There are Christmas toys made of dough, decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters made of dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other children's crafts made of dough suitable for kindergarten 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 for the New Year from salt dough with your own hands.

So let's get started. Let's start with the recipe.

SALT DOUGH RECIPE

For New Year's crafts.

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

First, mix the dry ingredients - salt, flour.

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

We store the finished dough, wrapping it tightly in cling film and putting it on a shelf in the refrigerator.

PAINTING RULES

Method 1 - paint the dough itself. You can color the dough with food coloring or salt dye 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 on top with gouache and fix the color with hairspray from a can.

MODELING RULES.

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

As you sculpt crafts, keep a bowl of water nearby, moisten your hands or the dough itself from drying out. In the open air, the dough dries quickly and loses its elasticity.

RULES FOR DRYING CRAFTS.

Can be dried outdoors, on a battery, in the oven (130-140 degrees).

Flat dough shapes.

(New Year's crafts-toys for the Christmas tree).

The simplest version of dough crafts 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 that you sand the dried part with sandpaper (sanding paper), sold at a hardware store for a penny. So you get a perfectly flat surface of the craft.

We cover the salt dough figure with paint in the background color (gouache, acrylic, even building acrylic is great). We dry. On this background we draw multi-colored patterns. We dry. We fix 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, circle it with a pencil, cut it out. We put a cardboard palm on the rolled out dough, cut it with a knife ... or scratch it with a knife and cut it out with scissors, gently lifting the dough layer above the table without stretching it.

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

HOW TO SELECT clear contours of a pattern on salt dough.

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

We color all the details of the drawing with gouache, like a contour coloring, without being afraid to climb onto the black edge of the stroke. We dry the paint.

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

The SECRET of choosing a color for coloring crafts from dough.

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

The penguin star in the photo below is very indicative - White paint looks bright in contrast with black, and red paint is brighter when next to black and white.

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

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

You can make a pattern crafts from similar colors of the palette(white, blue, blue - as on the mitten from the photo below), but then you need to achieve a difference in their saturation - the blue should be lighter, and the blue ones 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 is done for crafts in the right photo below - with New Year's salt dough boots. A beautiful and simple New Year's craft made from salt dough for children at school or an older group of kindergarten. We cut out the leaves with molds or scissors from salt dough. All painting of crafts is done with gouache.

How to make painting with embossed pattern.

You can apply a colorful pattern to the salt dough, enriching the decor depressed relief (as in the photo with the New Year's crafts from the dough below). There we first make indentations with a stamp - round berries (squeeze out with a pencil with washing) and leaves (we make using a stamp cut out of a piece of raw potato).

After punching the relief pattern, we apply paint inside the relief, giving the whole craft beautiful retro style.

How to color your own salt dough.

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

You can use food or salty Easter dye. 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 with which you can 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 the salt dough owl in the right photo). As you can see, everything is easy to do by yourself. Even children will be happy to help knead the dye - they are mesmerized by the process of spreading color to all parts of the dough ball.

Graphic SECTOR painting

dough crafts.

With the help of the usual drawing ruler you can make RELIEF GRAPHICS - divide the plane of the salty figure into clear sectors (as is done for crafts in the form of a heart from the photo below) and paint over each sector with its own color. A beautiful and bright New Year's craft made from salt dough with your own hands, which looks like factory stamping. Well done.

Similarly, you can extrude sectors WITH SMOOTH BORDERS(not in a straight line, but in a curved one). To do this, we take a sheet of thick cardboard, put it on the edge with a slight bend - and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth groove line (as it is done on Christmas toys from the dough in the photo below).

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

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

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

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

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

Pay attention to the craft of salt dough mittens - ideal for kindergarten. We make mittens ourselves - and we give the children the opportunity to divide the sectors into strips with a ruler and paint the strips with gouache in different colors. Simple and terribly interesting for all the kids in kindergarten and even big boys from school. An apple-shaped craft made from salted dough is also a godsend 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 test 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 complement your craft with New Year's sparkle.

Decoupage technique

On crafts made from salt dough.

Flat dough silhouettes can be an excellent background for a paper napkin print. The technique is called decoupage. And especially for her, nothing is needed, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and a napkin with a pattern and hairspray for finishing fixing.

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

We apply a layer of PVA glue to the surface of the dough piece. We separate the thin top paper layer from the patterned napkin 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 a napkin pattern on only one side of the dough silhouette (as is done on New Year's salt dough heart crafts). Before work, it is better to sand the dried hard surface of the parts with ordinary sandpaper, and cover with white (gouache or acrylic) - this is how we get the perfect “canvas” for our elegant decoupage art.

Salt Dough Tools

(knives and scissors for decorating crafts)

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 tip of the knife creates a triangular depressed silhouette, and with scissors you can cut the dough into protruding sharp shreds of the same shape.

This technique with scissors is very handy when you need to create plumage for bird crafts from salt dough. Actual crafts for the New Year of the Rooster.

Salt dough weaving

For the New Year.

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

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

We lay 2 twisted bundles next to each other - side to side - choosing their arrangement so that the turns of each adjacent bundle look in the opposite direction. That is, one bundle with a diagonal coil left down, and the other bundle with a diagonal coil right down. Thus, 2 strands laid side by side form the illusion of ONE PIECE.

If several such braids are placed side by side (of two bundles each), then we get CLOTH, similar to the relief of a knitted pattern.

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

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

A braided dough craft can be decorated with silhouettes, cut out cookie cutters, such as stars. Below we see a master class on neat painting of dough crafts

After drying, we cover each element with thick gouache, choose the painting design to your taste. You can add elements with sparkles and beaded sprinkles.

Crafts from dough

With embossed patterns.

(embossing method).

Here is a way to decorate for salt dough crafts, which is very popular with all children. They are delighted with the openwork pattern that, as if by magic, appears on the salty 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 stick them on ordinary wine corks - and we get comfortable stamps that you can hold in your hands. We give the children stamps and they poke them into the rolled out dough. Next, we cut out the silhouettes of Christmas trees with cookie cutters - and we get a craft in the form of a Christmas tree, with New Year's balls.

Look beautiful imprints of large metal buttons with a relief convex pattern - semi-antique.

In the same way, you can use grandmothers brooches, buttons with an eagle or a horse on dad'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 salt dough Christmas tree craft is made using thick cardboard (or a rubber mat) that is rolled into a tube to form a curl at the end of the roll. And this curl was applied to the salt dough rolled out on the table. Simple and beautiful as a result. An excellent children's craft for a competition in school or kindergarten.

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

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

Just put the openwork on the rolled out dough. And we roll over it with the same rolling pin. If your house does not have a rolling pin (you are such a hostess, what can you do) - then you can replace it with a smooth glass bottle or a can of hairspray.

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

Here are some patterned things obtained from plastic Chinese napkins.

How to

paint the dough

WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.

We want the coloring of the embossed patterned dough craft to be bright. So that the paint does not smear the pattern, but only emphasizes, 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 recesses of the pattern. Dry until the paint is completely dry.

And then we take the paint 1-2 tones lighter (or even a different color) and work no longer with a brush, but with a foam rubber sponge, or with a make-up 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 go into the recesses-grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get a uniform coloring of the entire craft.

Thus, we will make the coloring of the pattern with a textured selection of it into 2 color tones - on top and inside the relief.

And here (in the photo below) is also an original-painted and original-dented craft made from 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 test. All this dried up. And then they painted with a brush and a sponge in several tint passes. Please note that not all places were painted over with a blue brush, a brush with white paint walked somewhere. And then everything was powdered from above with soft white paint using a foam rubber 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 faint stripes of future flower petals. And then, along the marked lines, make point punctures-pits. If we take sticks of different thicknesses, then we will get different points, this will give the composition additional artistic variability.

And nature itself can give us its stamps for imprinting the New Year mood on dough crafts. Sprigs of evergreen fir, prints of cones and dry veiny leaves. Even at home in a flower pot, you can find the source of a beautiful floral pattern.

Puff pastry crafts

with your own hands for the New Year.

See what puff beauty you can do with your own hands. How beautiful the DOUBLE-LAYER CRAFTS from salt dough look. The lower base layer is made without a pattern, in a solid color. We dry this layer well, then we grind its surface with sandpaper (or pumice stone for heels, it’s also good). We cover the polished base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform coloring (you can act not with a brush, but with a foam rubber sponge or spray paint from a spray can).

We make the upper patterned layer of the craft already from salt dough with a relief print. By the way, very beautiful prints can be made using antique tin trays with relief engraving on metal. Your grandmother or elderly neighbor may have just such a tray. A neighbor for a chocolate bar will let you use it if you sensibly explain to an alarmed old woman that in 5 minutes you will return a valuable rarity to the owner. If she does not 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 - wings and breast. From the dough, first cut out the body of the bird. Then breast and wings.

Preliminary we make a relief print USING THE WIRE. Yes, ordinary wire on a flat table twists in different winding directions, forming a flat pattern of twisted tracks.

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

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

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

Here we just see an example of crafts from salt dough IN SEVERAL LAYERS. You will learn exactly how to make this New Year's flower from salt dough with your own hands if you read an article on our website. It shows the principle of creating puff flowers from paper, and exactly the same principle allows you to make the same flowers from dough. The rolled out 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.

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

But (in the photo below) we see a two-layer craft made from salt dough, to which we added volume. A very interesting job. And in fact, making such a Christmas tree decoration is not difficult at all 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 2 Christmas balls of a suitable size. And we put our rounds on the rounded belly of the Christmas ball. And we dry our blank like this right on the ball - so that it dries in the form of a hemisphere (bowl). Next, we remove the two dry hemispheres from the Christmas ball and connect them together.

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

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

liquid pattern

On crafts of salt dough.

In the photo below, we see snow-white crafts made from polished salt dough, with an openwork pattern applied to it. Such a delicate, almost lace bas-relief can be made using the “liquid drawing” technique. 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, we grind the canvas - a dry flat piece of salt dough. Then on it with a pencil, crayon, 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 is suitable).

Try it first on a tester to see how you work best 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 runny).

So with your own hands and your brains you can think of and experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough. Try. Create. Be outrageous. Play pranks.

Dye can be added to batter (food, or color jars, which are sold in hardware stores to dilute them in white paint). Crafts with such a liquid pattern can be made imitating New Year's cookies, and sprinkle them with grains of coarse salt, imitating sugar sprinkles.

Salt dough crafts

WITH HOLES.

On pendants toys made of salt dough, you can make curly holes. 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 New Year's beauty with your own hands.

You can pour THERMO-MOSAIC into the holes on the raw dough, which melts in the oven. And when baking, it will spread with a colored lake inside the hole in the craft.

Instead of a mosaic, you can pour ordinary COLORED LOLLIPS - that is, sweets. They will also melt and fill the hole. You will get a beautiful craft with your own hands, just as if the children did not lick it off with their tongues.

New Year characters

from salt dough.

From the dough you can make various New Year and winter characters. For example a snowman or penguins.

You can mold ordinary shapes from the dough, and then with paints give them a resemblance to the desired character.

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

A complex STEP-by-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. Here painstaking and perseverance is needed to complete all the work piece by piece and dry everything thoroughly before painting.

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

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

To make the craft spectacular and voluminous, you can - also from dough - make a SUBSTRATE for it. 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 salt dough is cut into strips - a magnificent bow is formed from them. On top of the bow we put the craft-bear cub and dry it all together. Then we paint, climbing with a brush into all hard-to-reach places.

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

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

Santa Claus from salt dough is also done easily and in a variety of ways (as you have already seen 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 simply make a Santa Claus head - with a star-shaped backing, as in the photo below.

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

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Many people do it - and every time New Year's crafts with their own hands turn out to be original, in their own style, even if they are made according to the instructions. We invite you to make Christmas decorations from salt dough with your children. You can pack them beautifully - and you will get a gift for the New Year with your own hands. The problem of Christmas gifts for grandparents and family friends will be solved!

To make Christmas toys from salt dough, we need:

• salt dough (100 g flour, 100 g salt, 125 ml water)
• cookie cutters
• rolling pin
• lace doily
• ribbons
• gouache
• brush
• sponge
• souvenir bags

Making toys from salt dough:

1. Knead the salt dough. We roll out the layer with a thickness of 3-5 mm. We put a lace napkin on top and roll it with a rolling pin two or three times (we are not afraid to press). We've got a very interesting terrain.

1. We squeeze stars, hearts, houses, Christmas trees with molds. Do not forget to make holes - then we will insert ribbons into them.

1. The first stage is over! We dry our New Year's souvenirs in the oven (convection mode, 60 degrees, 3 hours). Let it cool down properly.

1. Now the fun part! We take a brush and gouache and paint. We cover the edges with dark paint - so our souvenirs will look neater (you can skip this step).

1. We walk with a slightly damp sponge dipped in paint over ready-made souvenirs. So the drawing will be more noticeable. Let's dry. We cover with varnish, wait for it to dry, and then insert the ribbons.

1. Now let's get to the fun part - gift wrapping. We pack three or four souvenirs in each bag, and the gifts are ready!

Master class on testoplasty. Craft "Christmas clock"

The master class is designed for children of senior preschool age, teachers, parents.

Purpose: This salt dough craft can be used as a New Year's gift or decoration for a kindergarten group for the New Year holiday.

Target: to develop the aesthetic feelings of children, emotional and value orientations, to introduce children to artistic culture.

Tasks:

· Develop children's independence and initiative, friendships and cooperation with peers and adults.

Develop spatial and figurative thinking.

· To form the skill to carefully work with salt dough.

Develop the ability to assemble a whole from parts

· To cultivate a culture of communication, the desire to bring the product to the desired image.

You will need: For the dough (salt 1 tbsp, flour 2 tbsp, water by eye, 1 tbsp sunflower oil); foil, stack, paint, brush, non-spill glass.

New Year's clock

The alarm rings twelve times

The new year has come again

He boldly opened the door to us

Entering the house without asking

And we will feel sad again in our hearts

We will remember the old year

We will remember the old chimes

And the old sky

Or maybe we want

Bring back that year

in which I first saw

That gray sky

But a year has passed

And he will never come back

So we will meet friends with fun

Your new year and new hour.

Step by step execution process

So, you can make such an original composition from salt dough with a clock. It just takes a little effort. First, prepare the salt dough for further modeling. The recipe is as follows: 1 glass of salt, 2 glasses of flour, 1 glass of water and 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil. Next, knead the dough, bring it to the desired consistency so that it does not stick to your hands, and begin work.

1. Take a piece of foil and put it on a baking sheet. We roll out a layer of dough and cut out the base of the house.

2. We determine a place for the clock and begin to roll out flagella 1 cm thick and lay them out in the form of logs. Lubricate one side with water for stickiness. All excess must be carefully cut with a knife.

3. When the whole house is covered with sausage, determine the window and the roof with a flagellum. For the roof, roll out the tourniquet and flatten it a little.

4. Next, move on to the figures. As usual, the house has its tenants. You can make anyone. I made a snowman and a Christmas tree. I also depicted icicles along the edge of the roof. In the window I made a watch with numbers and arrows.

Safronova Tatyana Arkadievna, State Budgetary Educational Institution "School with in-depth study of individual subjects No. 1248", structural unit No. 6 (kindergarten No. 1933), educator, Moscow.
Description: The material can be useful to kindergarten teachers, elementary school teachers, parents. Working with salt dough contributes to the development of fine motor skills of the hands, develops creativity and imagination.

Salt dough Christmas decorations

For the New Year, you always want to please your loved ones with something unusual. And the teacher faces the task of what gifts to prepare with the children for their parents. Everyone knows that children with great pleasure present gifts made by themselves. I decided to turn to a long tradition, which in our time is being actively revived. In ancient times in Rus' it was customary to give figurines made of salt dough for the New Year. Such figurines were called “hospitable”, as it was believed that they bring satiety and well-being to the house. If there is bread and salt in the house, namely, dough was made from flour and salt, you will not stay hungry. The tradition was born in poor families, where there was nothing to pamper the children on New Year's holiday. The poor guessed to mold figures from dough - flour and water, and began to give them to each other. And so that mice do not gnaw toys, they began to add a lot of salt to the dough. This is how salt dough was born.
Salt dough is an excellent material for modeling: plastic, environmentally friendly, safe, does not stick to hands, and is easily washed off with water. A great alternative to plasticine, and salt dough figures can also be painted.
I, with my children in the preparatory group, took up the creation of Christmas toys from salt dough, I suggest you try it too.
To prepare the test we need:
- 2 cups wheat flour
- 1 cup extra salt
- 1 glass of cold water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Mix flour and salt, gradually add water and vegetable oil. Knead the dough for ten to fifteen minutes. Put the dough in a plastic bag, otherwise it will dry out and become covered with a crust. To make the dough more plastic, and our crafts do not crack along the side cuts, keep the dough in the refrigerator for about two hours before use. For our crafts, we do not use all the dough, but only a small part of it. Leftover dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week (when stored longer, the dough turns gray).
Test work:
Pinch off a lump of dough of the desired size, put it on cardboard (I recommend using thick cardboard to avoid deformation of the product during drying). Roll out the dough with a rolling pin about 5 mm thick and cut out shapes using cookie cutters (stars, Christmas trees, hearts, etc.) or templates made from cardboard. Lay the template on the rolled out dough and cut out the shapes in a stack. You can roll sausages from the dough and fold them, for example, into a snowflake. To connect the parts, use water, moisten the gluing points with a brush and connect them.

It is convenient to make a hole for the ribbon with a straw for drinks, but other items such as a match, a stick, a brush will do.
How to dry:
Lay your figures to dry directly on the cardboard near the radiator, in a warm place. They will be ready for further work in five days. It all depends on the thickness of the product: one millimeter takes one day. At the same time, the products retain their color, which is convenient for coloring. There is another way to dry crafts - in the oven, but in kindergarten conditions this is not possible and, moreover, after the oven, the product takes on the color of a baked pie.
Decoration:
You can make prints directly on the test. Any small relief objects (buttons, braid) are suitable for prints. To get an imprint, press it on a figure cut out of dough. You can roll out the dough through a crocheted napkin - we will also get a beautiful embossed pattern, then cut out the figures with molds.

When our stars, hearts, Christmas trees dry out, you can paint them with gouache or leave the natural color. Glitter can be used to decorate toys. You can sprinkle toys on top of the paint with them until it dries. If you want to use multi-colored glitter, wait for the paint to dry, apply the pattern with glue, sprinkle glitter on top of the glue.

To decorate our toys, we also used confectionery sprinkles. First apply the glue, and on top of the glue - sprinkle. It turned out very colorful.

It remains only to thread the ribbons through the hole, and Christmas decorations are ready! These are such wonderful gifts for the New Year's holiday, the guys handed over to their parents! The process of working with salt dough is creative and exciting, everyone was satisfied: both adults and children! I highly recommend trying it.