Salt dough craft ideas. Interesting ideas for modeling with a child

A wonderful activity for a child is modeling from various materials. It perfectly develops the fine motor skills of the baby. However, there is a minus in this type of needlework - the child may accidentally eat the material. It follows that it is not recommended for kids to work with clay and plasticine, but salt dough is very suitable! It is easy to use and safe for kids.

The dough can be used to create any figures. Even one and a half year old babies, under the supervision of their parents, can create their first masterpieces from it, and for older children this activity can become a real hobby.

Try to show your imagination with your child and start making products of incredible beauty.

How to make salt dough

This material can afford to cook absolutely everything, because the ingredients for it are available in every kitchen.

To make salt dough you will need:

• 200g salt;
• 2 cups of flour;
• incomplete glass of water;
• 2 tablespoons of starch (if you are sculpting relief figures).

Mix salt with flour and, if necessary, with starch, add water, mix, add one tablespoon of sunflower oil and start kneading. The dough should not crumble and stick to your hands - watch this, adjust the readiness of the dough with water and flour. Properly prepared dough should be well molded. Wrap the finished dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate for a couple of hours. After that, you can start sculpting.

Drying salt dough

The crafts you made from the dough must be dried. This can be done in several ways.

You can just put the figurines in the room and leave for a while. However, it is best to bake crafts in the oven. It should be noted that modeling is necessary in the same place where the figure will dry. For this, it is ideal to use foil.

After finishing work on the craft, put it in a cold oven, set the temperature to fifty degrees to start to avoid cracks. After thirty minutes, add the temperature to one hundred degrees. Dry on average one to two hours.

After drying, sand the craft with sandpaper.

How to color salt dough crafts

For painting the figurines, take paints with an acrylic base - they are most suitable for this. Such paints dry instantly, have a rich color and do not smell at all. However, these paints are expensive. Therefore, you can use gouache or watercolor paints.

You can also color the dough while kneading by adding a few drops of food coloring or acrylic paint to it, but do it in moderation. Ordinary cocoa powder is also good for coloring the dough.

At the end of the work, the figure is varnished. To do this, take a glossy or matte varnish with a water base.

Sculpting from salt dough with children

Owl

Take a spoon and separate two parts of the dough with it. This will be the body and head of the owl. Make figures of the required shape from these pieces and fasten them. Separately, take a strip of dough and make small cuts on it - this will be the collar. Put it on the body and draw wings with a knife. Use the remaining small pieces of dough to make the eye and beak. Dry the finished figure and paint to your liking.

Cat

First, divide the dough into separate parts. To make the body, you will need the largest piece of dough to make the head - a little smaller, use the rest to make the tail, face, paws, eyes and ears.

Roll out the dough into two circles, flatten them on the cardboard. Get the base for the body and head of the cat. On a small circle we make a face from a separate piece of dough. We attach eyes, ears, tail, paws. Note that each detail should be three to five millimeters thick.

Dry the resulting cat in the oven. After that, we decorate it with black, and shade the tail, antennae and eyes with white, draw the mouth with red.

Caterpillar

Separate small pieces from the salt dough, make balls of various sizes out of them. The head is a larger ball, the body is a few small balls. The number of circles will determine the size of your caterpillar.

Fasten the received parts to each other. For better bonding, wet the contact points with water. You can either make a caterpillar face using modeling or draw. For mustaches, simple matches are suitable.

Dry the finished caterpillar in the oven and paint to taste.

Hedgehog

First of all, take some ball - this will be the basis for the torso. It can be made of plastic, wood or any other material. Wrap this ball with an even layer of dough so that there are no holes.

Make the eyes and nose of the hedgehog in the same way with the help of dough or use regular peppercorns.

Testoplasty is a new exciting type of needlework, which involves the creation of a wide variety of paintings from salt dough. If earlier this type of needlework was intended to develop fine motor skills in children, today it is a full-fledged art form. Adult needlewomen create whole pictures from this material.

Why has dough molding become so popular? There are a number of reasons for this:

1. It is not expensive. If any other needlework, be it embroidery, knitting or drawing, requires the purchase of quality tools and materials, then this needlework requires only flour and salt;
2. It doesn't require any special skills. It is not at all necessary to graduate from an art history department or a sculpture school in order to create masterpieces;
3. It develops. Modeling contributes to the development of thinking, imagination, the ability to compose a composition;
4. It improves spatial thinking. With the help of modeling, you can learn to convey shapes, proportions and colors.

Dough modeling has been popular for a long time. The history of this needlework is rooted deep in history. Even with the advent of the first flour (about 6000 years ago), people began to sculpt various figures from ready-made dough, and later they became the first charms, along with herbs and stones.

Very often, for a skillfully molded amulet or figurine, people received an equilibrium price in gold.

Today, such paintings are very popular among craftswomen and needlewomen. Usually they consist of a canvas (a sheet of cardboard, canvas, etc.), on which various paintings are molded. They are not flat, but voluminous due to the texture of the material. Products are painted with paints or varnished to subsequently decorate the interiors. Testoplasty is a full-fledged art form that you should definitely try to do!

Preparing salt dough for modeling is very simple. All that is needed is:

• flour - 0.2 kg;
• salt - 0.2 kg;
• water - 125 ml;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.

If you need to get a multi-colored product right away, then you need to add a dye that dissolves in water to this recipe.

There are two methods of kneading. Both of them are good and are chosen according to personal preferences:

1. Salt is mixed with flour until smooth (if desired, it is fluffed up with a blender), and then water is gradually poured into this mixture. The dye dissolves in water;
2. Salt and dye dissolve in water, and then flour is gradually introduced into it.

It is necessary to knead the resulting mass hard. First, the dough must be brought to such a state in which it will not stick to the hands, and then beat on a wooden or iron surface. If it starts to crumble, then you need to add water, and if it sticks to your hands, flour. After kneading, it is highly desirable to keep the finished material in the bag in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours. And after that you can start sculpting.

A simple picture "Cat" from salt dough with your own hands

This work is done on a wooden background or on a cutting board. Transferring the drawing is not required, so the work is done on the basis of a sketch.

You will need:

• background or board;
• watercolor and gouache paints;
• paint brushes;
• salty dough;
• PVA glue";
• colorless varnish;

Master class with step by step photos:

How to make a picture with flowers from salt dough

"Daisies in a vase" - this is the name of this picture, and it is done quite simply.

You will need:

• cling film or cellophane;
• salty dough;
• cardboard sheet or wooden plank for the background;
• matter (optional) for the background;
• toothpick;
• tassel;
• nail scissors;
• water.

Process step by step with photo:

1. Salty dough is prepared according to a standard recipe and is divided into three parts: one is larger for flowers, the second is for the base for flowers and the third is for a vase. A cling film or cellophane is spread on a wooden background;
2. A vase is formed from a piece of dough. She can be whatever the needlewoman wants. Here it is formed from 3 parts: the base is made from a large piece (it is rolled out and formed in the form of a vase), a stand and a handle are made from two smaller pieces;
3. With the help of a knife, a drawing was made on a vase;
4. Next, flowers are made;
5. An oval is rolled out from the second part and is located on top of the vase - flowers will be attached to it;
6. A small piece of dough is rolled into a slightly flat ball;
   
7. With manicure scissors, he is “cut” into petals;
   
8. Then, with the help of the thumb and forefinger, the “square” petal is slightly compressed and shaped. These steps must be repeated with each petal;
   
9. The result is voluminous petals;
   
10. With the help of a toothpick, veins are made on the petals;
    
11. The place where the flower should be located is slightly wetted with water and the flower is placed there. It must be lightly pressed down using the back of the brush;
12. Roll a ball from a small piece of dough - this will be the core of the flower;
    
13. The core also needs to be slightly pressed down;
    
14. And lightly prick the petals at the junction with the base with the sharp end of the toothpick so that they connect;
    
15. Repeat this procedure with all the flowers;
16. Once the painting is ready, it must be left to air dry until completely hardened;
17. As soon as the dough dries, turn the picture down with the dough on a soft surface and carefully peel off the film;
18. The background is pasted over with a coarse cloth (burlap, linen cloth) on both sides;
19. Spread the back surface of the work (i.e. dough) with glue. It is best to take the "Dragon". And, without lifting the product, attach it to the fabric. Those. the lubricated surface itself sticks to the fabric;
20. Then the work is painted with paints or varnished as desired;
21. After the paint has dried, you can attach a frame to the background.

How to make a salt dough basket painting

The picture is made on a large sheet of parchment paper - it lags behind more easily after drying, without spoiling the picture itself. You can also use cling film or work on a ready-made background.

Required:

• dough ingredients or ready-made salt dough;
• parchment paper - 1 sheet;
• sharp knife or stacks;
• garlic press;
• paper basket and leaves template;
• paints and brushes;
• water for wetting;
• cloves - 3-4 pcs.

Master class for creating a picture with your own hands:

Some useful tips for needlewomen:

Salt dough is fun to make. You can involve children of all ages in this activity and it will become not only entertaining leisure, but also useful!

Another guide to making salt dough flowers is in the next video.

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Modeling from salt dough gives great freedom to imagination, and products from it, at times, amaze with their beauty and grace.

This type of creativity gives pleasure and joy, like any other.

Many people think: well, just think, some kind of salty dough - all these are crafts (implying the childishness of the product).

But, only those who do not know that think so

Since ancient times, people have sculpted from salt dough, not only in Russia, but in all European countries, it was customary to give wreaths, doll figures or other amulets from salt dough.

Why from the test?

It's very simple - salt dough is a surprisingly energetically capacious material.

Everyone who has ever sculpted figurines from salt dough or received them as a gift has felt this positive impact on themselves.

Salt dough, like clay, has amazing energy, but if clay draws out all the negativity, salt dough, on the contrary, gives positive energy - goodness and warmth with this material is very pleasant to work with.

If you liked the idea of ​​​​interesting creativity that you can create with your child, then be sure to remember and try the following recipe in practice:

salt dough recipe

1 cup flour
1 glass of salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 cup water
The process of making salt dough is incredibly simple. Pour a glass of salt into a deep bowl (or any other convenient container) and pour half a glass of hot water.
Next, we stir the salt with water and add a glass of flour. Stir the salty dough until smooth. For convenience, you can use a mixer.

In the salty dough, you need to add one or two tablespoons of vegetable oil, dry wallpaper paste or a spoonful of hand cream.

Vigorously mix everything in the bowl with your hands, if the dough is too sticky to your hands, add a little flour mixed with salt.

Put the resulting mass of salt dough in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After that, you can sculpt from salt dough. If after modeling you still have dough left, then store it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag.

The dough is ready, now you can mold all kinds of figures from it. Put the finished crafts on a baking sheet and put in a cold oven, where we keep it on low heat (80%) for about an hour or a little more if the figures have not had time to completely harden. After drying, the figures can be painted and varnished.

Salt Dough Tips:

1. Keep the container with salt dough closed, because left open, in the air, salt dough dries very quickly.
2. To prevent the dough from sticking to your hands, you need to add a little flour to it.
3. To prevent the dough from crumbling, you need to pour a little water into it.
4. Unused dough should be stored in the refrigerator - there it will last one to two days.
5. To give the dough a pleasant smell and color, spices can be added to it, such as cumin, pepper, curry, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc.
6. In order to check whether the figures have dried well, tap them with your finger. If the sound is sonorous, the dough has dried out, and if it is deaf, then it is not yet.
7. After the oven, the dough figures can be painted with gouache and then varnished.
8. If cracks appear on the figurine after drying, dilute a little PVA glue, mix well and apply this mass to the crack, rubbing it.

Salt Dough Coloring Methods

Salt dough can be tinted with food coloring, watercolor or gouache. You can also color while preparing the dough, introducing the dye during kneading, and already the finished product itself - on the surface.

An excellent chocolate color is obtained by adding cocoa. You can experiment with other natural dyes - soot, beet juice, carrots, ocher, etc. You can brown the salt dough product in the oven for a natural color.

When tinting, keep in mind that after drying, the color will become less saturated, but if you cover the craft with varnish, it will become brighter again. What varnish can be used? Acrylic and artistic is very good. It is also possible to use a conventional water-based construction material for breathable surfaces, i.e. for parquet or wood.

Features and methods of preparing salt dough:

There are a few things you can't do with salt dough. So, for example, you can’t add pancake flour (or flour with any other additives) to salted dough, since the figures will rise like good pie dough and crack when dried.

Also, you can not add iodized salt, large inclusions do not dissolve, subsequently the dough is not homogeneous - into a grain. Likewise, you can not add rock salt without first dissolving.

About water. So, in the test it is best to use very cold water; be sure to add in parts of 50 ml after each addition, knead (due to the fact that different flours may require different amounts of water).

Salt is first mixed with flour, and only then water is poured into the finished mass.

Salt dough is stored in a plastic bag or a tightly sealed container. It is better to take out salt dough from a plastic bag in small pieces, since lumps of dough quickly become covered with a crust and when rolled out or molded, these dry crusts spoil the look.

And one more thing, if the figures are thick (more than 7 mm), then after the first stage, you need to remove the excess dough from the back

The dough may be too soft. Then proceed as follows: mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt at the bottom of a bowl. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then knead it. Do this until the dough becomes more dense.

You can sculpt or cut out figures immediately on a baking sheet. The baking sheet should first be moistened with water, in which case bubbles will not form between the product and the surface of the baking sheet, therefore, the surface of the product will be even and stable.

Everything that falls off is just wonderful and, most importantly, it is not noticeably glued with PVA glue.

Swelling or crackling of salt dough crafts occurs in three cases:

1. If the flour is incorrectly selected. For greater strength, you can add rye flour to the dough (the color will be warmer and there should be no crackling) (for example, a glass of ordinary + a glass of rye, 1 to 1), 50 gr. starch - also give the dough elasticity and prevent cracking. You can also add PVA glue, since it also gives plasticity and prevents the dough from rising.
2. If drying is not done correctly (see next section)

If crackling occurs after painting, this means that the product has not completely dried out (the product continues to dry and the air needs to go somewhere), so the surface of the paint or varnish is cracking. Do not rush to paint or varnish the product, so that later you do not regret and do not redo it.

Frequently asked question: how to dry salt dough?

It is best to dry in the air in natural conditions, but this is a long time (complete drying can take a week or more - especially if the humidity during drying is high - as salt draws moisture), so you can dry it in the oven, following a few rules.

1. The oven must be at the lowest temperature
2. It’s good if drying goes with the oven lid ajar
3. You can not put products in a hot oven immediately, heating should occur gradually. As well as pulling the product out of the oven, it is better if it cools down gradually instead of with the oven
4. It is ideal to dry in several stages: an hour dried on one side, turned the craft over, dries from the inside out. I still take breaks between drying, it dries in the oven for an hour - it dries itself for a day - then again for an hour and a half in the oven on the reverse side.

The drying time of a salt dough product depends on the thickness of the product itself. And also from the applied manufacturing recipe. So, dough containing butter, cream, etc. dries much longer than dough without oil-containing additives.

In order to avoid cracking of the product, it is possible to dry it in three to four stages, in the oven at the very minimum and always with the lid open for about an hour and a half, then a break for two or three hours, or all night, the craft dries itself, and then again turn on the oven to minimum with the lid open.

With natural and oven drying, the craft must be rotated at each stage of drying, i.e. hour dries with the front side, rests, turned over at the next stage and dries with the reverse side.

Thus, we have covered the basic recipes and methods for modeling salt dough.

Successful creativity!

This type of folk art has become popular not so long ago, although its origins lie in the most ancient layers of Slavic culture. If in doubt, then remember the same Kolobok: why not an artistic piece of dough? Working with such a test is not only simple, but also accessible to everyone. Firstly, in what house is there not a handful of flour, and secondly, this material is much more pliable than the same gypsum, and much more durable than plasticine familiar to everyone. That's why salt dough crafts so we all loved it.

Such wonderful sheep can decorate the Christmas tree.

If you add paint to the dough, you will get multi-colored products. It is best to use edible paints, for example, for coloring eggs.

With the help of stamps and paint, you can make drawings on cookies from salt dough.

According to some rumors, dough modeling was invented by culinary specialists who were bored with just cooking. So they had fun, along the way decorating their pastries. But not only they appreciated the convenience of this material, its pleasantness to the touch and flexibility to give it different shapes. Like most needlework materials, the dough is not very expensive. As from the same plasticine, whatever your heart desires is molded from the dough. Both paintings and salt dough figurines can be placed on walls and shelves or used as toys. A picture with flowers from such a test will be a great gift for friends. Today, like crafts from a plastic bottle, salt dough products are becoming more and more popular, and therefore this area of ​​\u200b\u200bcreativity needs to be studied in detail and brought under a theoretical basis.

Not only beads are suitable for decoration, but also natural materials: cereals and seeds.

Salt dough crafts are durable, which means they can decorate the interior for more than one month.

Recently, this art (and dough modeling is, without a doubt, art) has even been given a separate name - testoplasty. But, despite the novelty of the name, no one will doubt that people began to sculpt figures from dough since ancient times, when they only learned how to make flour. The history of each civilization mentions dough modeling as an important part of religious rituals, folk art, and sacrifices. After all, both flour and water, and the bread obtained from them, are an important part of the culture of mankind as a whole. When working with dough, many people manage to come up with their own names for this technique: flour salt, bioceramics and, of course, testoplasty. But no matter how it is called, the result often exceeds all possible expectations! When a masterpiece is born from salt dough, it becomes a real event, because the soul invested in the craft returns a hundredfold greater return in the form of a living toy - salt dough figurines. Perhaps that is why salt dough has become such a popular material for the creativity of children of different ages. Like plasticine, salt dough products allow modeling of any complexity.

With proper skill, you can make such an owl.

You can use gouache to color the owlet, and you can fix it with a manicure glue.

No one can say today exactly how many centuries testoplasty has existed. But during this time, the procedure for working with salted dough has not changed at all. All the same water and flour. And to save crafts from various pests, salt is added.

You can learn about the features of working with salt dough from many sites. But if you yourself have been sculpting from salt dough for quite a long time, then you also have gained experience working with this material, there are examples of work, photographs of products that can be placed on similar Internet pages. You can also create your own blogs and even websites dedicated to this art. Believe that with the current popularity of testoplasty, your achievements will be of interest to many like-minded people. At least on thematic sites, a personal author's gallery will be created for you. And even if your photographs are not an example of perfection, professionals will bring them to mind and present them in the best light.

For Christmas decor, you can make toys from salt dough.

Fortunately, the days when dough figures were used only as sacred objects have long since passed. Gone are the eras of famine and war. Folk "flour-salt" gradually turned into a newfangled "bioceramic". The most ancient decorative craft began to revive as an independent applied art. Today, testoplasty is gaining more and more popularity in craft schools and circles. Everyone who has been familiar with this art appreciated salt dough as a plastic and warm material, as well as a source of great pleasure from working with it. A big plus in its favor is the availability of material for home use.

Salt dough is a very plastic material. From it you can make flowers and little men.

These are the beautiful hearts you can make for Valentine's Day.

Angels and hearts will come in handy for Easter.

To on my own make salt dough crafts, you can preview several master classes on the Internet. You can read step-by-step instructions, as well as get acquainted with the photo collections of works from salt dough offered on various sites. This will help you gain additional inspiration for your next steps.

It is best to make crafts from salt dough with children.

Salt dough will require water, flour and, in fact, salt.

As for the recipe for the dough itself, it is standard for ordinary three-dimensional figures:

• Flour - 200 grams or 1 cup
• Salt - 200 grams or half a glass,
• Water - 125 milligrams.

It should be noted that salt is much heavier than the same volume of flour. And therefore, with the same weight, they differ in volume: salt is taken about half as much by weight as flour.

* And for embossed thin figures, you can optionally add 15 grams of PVA glue (one tablespoon), one tablespoon of starch or wallpaper glue, which must first be mixed with water.

* There are separate recipes and strong dough for large products: one glass of flour and salt (respectively, 200 and 400 grams) and 125 milliliters of water.

*Specialists also offer a dough recipe for fine work: flour - 300 grams, salt - 200 grams, glycerin - 4 tablespoons (you can buy it at a pharmacy), glue for light wallpaper - 2 tablespoons and water - 125 milliliters (you need it in advance mix with glue).

To facilitate the process of kneading the dough, it is better to use a mixer, which will not only greatly simplify the task, but also make the dough much better.

For the manufacture of colored dough, you can use both food dyes and aniline, but the simplest and most affordable are watercolor and gouache. An excellent chocolate color will be obtained by adding cocoa to the dough. When choosing a shade, it should be taken into account that during the drying process the tone will not become so saturated, but when varnishing the crafts, the color will return to its former brightness again.

Salt dough for crafts is made in the same way as for dumplings, with the difference that the components differ in content.

The dough should be tight and elastic.

Tip: let the dough "brew" for a few minutes.

Form cookies with stencils.

Stock up on cookie decorating stamps.

Wet the stamp lightly and scoop up the glitter.

Now transfer the decor to the cookies.

Don't forget to use beads, rhinestones and rhinestones for embellishment.

Now is the time to send the cookies to the oven.

But here's another important detail: make a hole in the cookie to insert a ribbon into it and attach it to the Christmas tree.

Now, into the oven.

You can decorate cookies with multi-colored powder and shiny varnish.

By the way, many masters recommend adding a little vegetable oil or hand cream (approximately 1 tablespoon) to the dough, which can give the dough additional plasticity. And it is also recommended to replace water with jelly cooked from starch - potato or corn (dissolve one tablespoon of starch in half a glass of cool water; then a glass of boiling water is poured into the starch with constant stirring; after the jelly has thickened and become transparent, the resulting paste should remove from the stove.) The dough will benefit from the paste, because it will become even more plastic. But you should not overdo it, and if the dough is too soft, you will have to mix it again with a slight additional amount of salt and flour. Salt dough needs to be given more density. There are also tips to put salt dough in a plastic bag for 2 hours in the refrigerator. It can be stored there for later use.

Salt dough makes an excellent decoration for the kitchen.

For crafts, stock up on gouache or colored varnish.

Salt dough makes wonderful souvenirs.

Making crafts from salt dough

You can get started with this material by doing salt dough autumn crafts. After all, autumn is extremely rich not only in forms for imitation in the form of ripened fruits, but also in various natural materials that can be included in the product as a full-fledged element, as well as a rethought symbolic image of some part of nature or a certain image. You can make a kind of still life in the form of a picture or a bas-relief with the same apples, pears, pumpkins and other fruits and vegetables. And you can make voluminous crafts and place them on a plate or a special stand. You can make an entire installation "Autumn Garden and Vegetable Garden" with the same fruits, or you can beat the theme of the autumn forest. In this case, along with salt dough, you can also use natural elements - cones, acorns, spruce and pine needles. In the same technique, you can make a staging of a fabulous or fantastic plot. Any autumn theme - a rowan branch, a carpet of fallen leaves, birds flying south - can be embodied with the help of salt dough.

Be sure to involve children in modeling.

From the master class you will see how to make a Christmas garland and beautiful Santa Clauses.

After the cookie is ready, start painting it. Don't forget to make holes.

How to do it right salt dough crafts step by step presented in step-by-step instructions, of which there are a huge number on the Internet. What is needed for such creativity? Literally everything that is gathering dust around the house can come in handy.

• To begin with, the most important items: a stack or a knife, a rolling pin and a comb, which can be useful, for example, for making a basket. You will also need an ordinary pen, especially its core, which is convenient for making different holes and points in patterns, cheese holes, eyes and much more.
• When making crafts, as well as for exciting games with children, curly knives for cutting cookies or ready-made sets of curly notches for plasticine can come in handy.
• Next, you should pick up everything in the house with which it is possible to make prints, for example:

voluminous buttons, hair clips, pieces of burlap, embossed lace, beads, rings, children's small toys, candle holders for cake, forks and spoons, the handles of which are decorated with embossed patterns, the sole of children's shoes (also gives interesting patterns), mixer details and a lot other inconspicuous little things.

• To prepare salt dough, flour and salt are mixed, water is added to them, the dough is kneaded. The degree of its readiness is determined only by the feeling of the hands. If it crumbles, add water. If, on the contrary, it stretches too softly and sticks to the hands, then there is a lot of water in it, and, accordingly, you need to add a little flour. For the test, a ball rolls up, several small indentations are made in it with a finger. A dough that does not blur and will hold its shape can be considered ready. When kneading, it is recommended to add oil, for example, vegetable oil. Thanks to this, the dough will not only not stick to your hands, dry out too quickly, but also will not be covered with a crust during work. True, you need to remember that too good is also not good: if you add a lot of oil, the dough will start to get dirty, and its final drying will take too long. Yes, and the paint to it will be taken with difficulty.
• Well, the dough is ready, now you can proceed directly to the process of sculpting from salt dough. It is better to make it on a board or baking sheet: this will immediately be a good place for the dough to dry.
• In order to make salty dough colored, it can also be dyed at the stage of kneading itself, using food paint or gouache, which will be safe when working with young children. You can also color the finished dried product. And in order to prepare the right color, you can use the scheme:

blue color is obtained by mixing blue and white,

pink color is obtained by mixing white and red,

purple is obtained by mixing blue and pink,

green is obtained by mixing blue and yellow,

orange color will come out when mixing yellow and red,

brown is obtained by mixing green and red,

emerald color is obtained by mixing green and blue,

for a flesh color, mix light pink with a drop of yellow,

and gold and silver color will turn out if you add gouache or acrylic of the corresponding color to it, you can also make dough with sparkles by adding gouache glitter gel to it.

• Drying is carried out either in the open air in natural conditions, which can take too long, or in the oven, subject to certain rules:

1. the temperature in the oven should be minimal;
2. the lid of the oven must be ajar;
3. the product cannot be placed immediately in a hot oven, it must be heated gradually. You can’t take the craft out of the oven abruptly, it’s better to wait until it gradually cools down along with the temperature of the oven itself;
4. it would be ideal to carry out drying in several main stages: after an hour of drying on one side, the craft must be turned over and allowed to dry from the inside out. You can also take breaks in the drying process: an hour is dried in the oven, and then a day in the air, and again an hour in the oven, but on the reverse side, and then a day in the air;
5. the drying time of the product largely depends on the size of the craft itself.

• require final finishing. After drying, the craft can be lightly browned in the oven, which will give it a natural shade. For decoration, the product is painted with paints and varnished. When working with dough, any paints are used: acrylic, watercolor, gouache - that is, those with which you most like to work. Varnish is used acrylic or artistic. You can also use ordinary construction, but with a water base, which can be used on breathable surfaces - parquet or wood. For greater expressiveness of some small details in the craft, they can even be painted with nail polish, which usually gives a bright glossy color.

ending salt dough crafts for kids, parents are often faced with receiving defective low-quality results. This can happen due to the assumption of typical mistakes that should be avoided even at the preparation stage. For example:

1. pancake flour or with some additives cannot be used for making crafts from salt dough, since the figures from it will begin to rise during drying like yeast dough for pies and the craft will crack;
2. iodized salt also cannot be used, since its large inclusions will not dissolve, and subsequently the texture of the dough will be heterogeneous, as if in a grain;
3. water should be used very cold and added in parts, fifty milliliters for each addition, after which thorough kneading should be carried out, which is associated with the likelihood of using different types of flour that require different volumes of water;
4. salt must first be mixed with flour and only then pour water into the already prepared mass;
5. salt dough can be stored in a plastic bag or in a tightly closed container. It is best to get this dough out of the bag in small slices, because they can very quickly become covered with a crust, and when rolled out or molded, these crusts can ruin the whole look of the product;
6. if a crackling or swelling of a salt dough product occurs, then this can be explained by improperly selected flour: the simpler it is and without additives, the better it is for dough and future crafts;
7. you can add rye flour to the dough: although the color will turn out to be more gray and warm, it should not crackle. A simple recipe is a glass of ordinary flour and a glass of rye flour, 50 grams of starch, which will also give the dough elasticity and prevent it from cracking. You can also add a spoonful of ordinary PVA glue to the dough, which gives plasticity and prevents the dough from rising;
8. crafts made from salt dough can also crack if dried incorrectly. As mentioned earlier, the product dries better in the air, by itself, although for a long time, but you want to get the result faster. Therefore, most often drying is carried out in three stages: first, in the oven at the lowest temperature and an open lid for about an hour, then a break is made for two hours, or it can be overnight, when the craft dries itself, then the oven is turned on again at the minimum temperature with the open lid;
9. when crackling appeared after painting, this means that the craft was not completely dry. At the same time, the product continued to dry, and the air had nowhere to go, which is why the surface of the varnish or paint cracked. No need to rush to paint or varnish the craft, otherwise you will have to regret it later or even redo it;
10. if the figure turns out to be thick, more than 7 millimeters, then at the first stage it is necessary to remove the excess dough on the reverse side;
11. during drying, the craft should turn at all stages: an hour dries on the front side, rests, then you need to turn the craft over and dry on the reverse side;
12. fallen off parts can be remarkably and imperceptibly attached with PVA glue.

To make the dough elastic, add PVA glue to it.

Just like real starfish.

Very beautiful spring birds.

These Christmas decorations are no worse than plastic ones.

Interesting figures from salt dough

This type of decorative art allows you to very realistically perform three-dimensional crafts. Salt dough flowers- favorite products, especially for women, and for schoolgirls too. It is very easy to make, for example, the same daisies, rolling out the dough ahead of time and making the same petals with notches. You can make them and roll out the same "sausages" and already from them, slightly flattening, form a lot of petals for a flower. The middles are made from a flattened ball of dough. Twigs and leaves can be replaced with natural thuja twigs, similar to real chamomile leaves. And you can place flowers in a basket woven from "sausages" from the same salt dough. You need to paint flowers and a basket according to the simple technology given above.

Such a cat is a bright embodiment of Halloween.

You can make funny animal figurines from salt dough. For example, such a cute tiger.

Fish and cats.

Favorite for cat lovers crafts - cats from salt dough. This is generally a fertile topic in any kind of creativity - in the visual arts, and in literature, and even in music. After all, this graceful wayward pet cannot but delight and inspire, especially creative people. To make your favorite Ginger out of dough, you can go the way of decorative primitivism, or you can try to make a more believable cat. True, its dimensions will be small, because the possibilities of making products from salt dough are limited by the need to adhere to the proper thickness, which is acceptable for uniform drying of the craft. Well, everything else is a matter of technology!

From the dough it is interesting to sculpt owls, hares and baskets.

Most easy salt dough crafts can be performed by rolling the sheet and cutting it out using recesses of various flat shapes. The advantage of this method is the speed of manufacturing a large number of different items, as well as its minimum thickness, which will speed up the drying process and protect against subsequent deformations. This technique most of all allows the use of different presses and impressions. By a similar principle, you can make a children's mosaic. To do this, you need to roll out a lot of "sausages" and leave them to dry overnight. In the morning, chips are cut from the "sausages" and again left overnight. Again in the morning a layer of dough is rolled out, it is given the correct shape (circle or rectangle). Then the chips are inserted into the fresh dough so that they leave indentations, and are immediately removed. The chips are painted in different colors, after which both the layer and the chips are left to dry.

Salt dough figurines can be decorated with rhinestones and beads.

- this is not only simple fun, but also a serious correctional activity that allows you to develop fine motor skills of kids, their perseverance, observation, creative imagination and educate their aesthetic tastes. And for adults, this is an excellent way to find peace and recover from constant fuss, even if it is highly meaningful. And believe me: you just have to try it once - and you will surely grow into this art with all your heart. And let your creativity be your joy!

Salt dough crafts photo

You can even make a pendant out of the dough.

These are the decorations obtained from the dough. who would have thought…

The best decoration for the Christmas tree.

You can make letters from the dough and string them into a bracelet.

From the dough, you can make not only New Year's, but also autumn decor.

With the help of paint and dough ropes, you can easily bake such a golden and silver heart.

Do you want a new ring? Make it from salt dough!

Cover the workpiece with a shiny varnish and you're done!

Charming owl made of dough.

You can draw a penguin on the star.

This is what the dough for baking looks like, in the oven it will “brown up” a little.

Shiny hearts for the Christmas tree.

Autumn crafts from dough.

Crafts decorated with buttons.

And these are Easter crafts.

Salt dough flowers.

From the test, you can make a memorable thing - your baby's handprint.

You can make balls from the dough and decorate with cereals.

Salt dough rose.

Christmas wreath made of dough.

Candlestick

The dough can be used to make vegetables and fruits.

Salt dough crafts video

Hello my dear readers and guests of the blog! Once in the distant past, I worked as a teacher in a kindergarten, the work is very interesting, but poorly paid ... But today we will not talk about that !! Just those who have worked in this system know that all the materials that we use in creativity with children must be environmentally friendly or certified. Therefore, home-made tools come to the aid of purchased stationery. And the easiest way to develop is salt dough.

Salt dough has been known since ancient times and is still popular today, because it is very easy to make, and sculpting from such a soft material is a pleasure. And what crafts are obtained !! Just a feast for the eyes!! I haven’t been working in the garden for a long time, but at home with my baby we often do modeling, and what was my surprise that not everyone knows how to make dough and what can be obtained from it. That is why I decided to write an article on this topic.

And for a change, you can also make New Year's crafts from improvised materials with your kids, ideas.

First of all, we need to understand the manufacturing process of our safe material. In fact, there are not so many recipes, but I will introduce you to a method that has been proven over the years.

We will need:

• Small salt - 1 tbsp.;
• Flour - 1 tbsp.;
• Water -125 ml;
• Vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons.

Manufacturing process:

Take a deep container and mix salt and flour in it. Next, pour in a small amount of water and vegetable oil. Mix well and refrigerate for 2 hours. The modeling dough is ready. You can leave it in this color, and after making the work, paint it in the desired color. And you can immediately add natural or synthetic dyes: choose gouache or vegetable juice (carrots, beets), you can also use cocoa.

On a note!! To sculpt thin figures, add glue to the dough. And remember that when drying, our mass loses color, so add more dye.

Step-by-step instructions for making dough crafts for beginners

Now that you know how to prepare material for creativity, it's time to start the sculpting process itself. We'll start with the simplest. I will show you step by step how you can easily and quickly make a beautiful little thing. We will sculpt a cute bear with you.

We will need:

• Flour;
• Salt;
• Water;
• Cup;
• Acrylic paints or gouache;
• Brush.

Manufacturing process:

1. First, knead the dough: mix half a glass of flour and half a glass of salt, add a little water and mix everything well. Then we wait 2 hours, at this time the dough is in the refrigerator.

2. Now we start sculpting the figure: we make one medium-sized ball for the head, a larger one for the body and 7 smaller ovals for the paws, ears and nose. We connect everything together. Then we put the product in the oven and dry it for an hour. After drying, take out the craft and cool it.

Advice!! Cover the finished souvenir with varnish. This will make the craft brighter and more practical!!

Thus, the step-by-step instruction for sculpting salt dough products is as follows:

• knead the dough;
• we sculpt the necessary elements and connect them together;
• dry the work in the oven;
• paint and wait for drying.

And remember that the main modeling techniques are balls and sausages. 😉

How to mold a souvenir from salt dough with your own hands

As you understand, this process is very exciting, and not only children, but also adults like to make crafts. Therefore, if you try and dream up, you can make a great gift or decoration element.

And for the upcoming New Year, I suggest you make a craft in the form of a dachshund dog, it will be very symbolic.

We will need:

• Salt dough is universal;
• Cardboard, simple pencil, scissors;
• Paints and brush;
• Piece of rope;
• Clear nail polish;
• Toothpick;
• foam sponge;
• Glue.

Manufacturing process:

1. Print a drawing of a dachshund on a printer or draw it yourself. Transfer to cardboard and cut out the image along the contour.

2. Roll out the dough with a thickness of 5 mm and attach a template, cut out the outline of a dachshund along it. Remove the cuts.

3. Now blind two balls and form oblong dog eyes from them. Glue them on a drop of water to the head. To remove irregularities in the workpiece, moisten all your fingers with water and stroke them along the contour.

5. In order to add volume, roll an oval out of the dough, glue it on the ear and smooth the joint with a wet finger.

6. Also give volume to the back and ponytail.

7. With a toothpick, make indentations around the perimeter of the figure.

8. Dry the workpiece in a warm oven. A dry product must be painted with black paint, where there are dents.

9. When the black paint dries, then take yellow paint on the foam rubber sponge and paint the whole body, while leaving the dents black.

10. Draw eyes on the dried dachshund and make any inscription.

11. On the reverse side, glue the rope on the glue.

12. We cover the product with a transparent varnish and let it dry.

And here are some other cool gifts you can make from this budget material:

• Angel girls

• Magnetic cats

• Puppy with a bouquet

Master class on making animal crafts for children

And since most of us are still not very creative, those who have children try to come up with interesting activities for them, so that joint activities are very exciting.

I suggest that you, together with your daughters and sons, make such a funny hedgehog, look for photo instructions further.

We will need:

• Salty dough;
• Scissors;
• beads
• Paints.

Manufacturing process:

1. From a piece of dough we make a drop-shaped blank.

2. Make eyes and a beaded nose.

3. Now we will make needles, for this we take nail scissors and make small cuts, lifting them up a little.

4. We perform the next row in a checkerboard pattern and so on until the entire back is covered with needles.

5. Dry the finished toy in the oven. We color the hedgehog at will.

It is also very easy to make a bird and decorate it with bean grains, it is not only easy, but also useful for the development of fine motor skills for children. Watch the video of the production of this craft:

Of course, there are a lot of options, and if you surf the Internet, you can find a whole storehouse of ideas, and your leisure time with your child is guaranteed. I share souvenirs that I personally liked:

• magic fish

• cows

• Princess Frog

• Mice

• Snail

• blue elephant

DIY Christmas gifts from salt dough (pictures inside)

And in anticipation, I want to surprise and pamper my family and friends. And if you decide to make surprises yourself, then here are a couple more gifts for you to choose from.

• snowman

We will need:

• Salt;
• Flour;
• Water;
• Toothpick;
• Gouache blue;
• Tassel.

Manufacturing process:

1. Knead salty dough from salt, water and flour. We make one ball white, and add blue gouache to the other.

2. From the white ball we pinch off a piece for the head and flatten it to the shape of a cake. Under this cake we place another piece-cake - the body of a snowman. Carefully shape the mouth with a toothpick, and also mark the location of the eyes.

3. Make two small balls, and moisten the place for the eyes with a brush dipped in water. Press your eyes, but not too much.

4. Take the blue dough and make very small balls, make pancakes out of them. These will be the pupils. Make eyebrows from sausages and form a carrot-nose.

6. Dry the snowman in a sunny window. Cover with colorless varnish. You can stick a magnet on the back. It made a great gift!!

• Or you can make these funny figures

• Pendant Santa Claus

• Excellent frame

• Or these funny Christmas decorations

• Variant of simple toys

• magnets

• Candlestick

• Do not forget about the symbol of the year - the dog

It's time to finish writing. And I think that if you were not familiar with the salt dough modeling technique before, then after reading the post, you will definitely want to try it.

And how children love to do such crafts, because there is not only modeling, but also drawing, but the most exciting thing for children is drying the product in the oven. A storm of joyful emotions is guaranteed for you!! Create, fantasize with the whole family!!