Salt dough products are light. Master class on making flour salts
decorate the fashionable interiors of apartments and shops, handmade jewelry complements the collections of costumes of fashion designers, gifts, hand-made toys are very popular among adults and young people
I want to tell about
salt dough products
which today occupy their niche among handicrafts
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- The oven must be at the lowest temperature
- It’s good if drying goes with the oven lid ajar
- 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
- 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!
How to make salt dough for modeling.
We take: 1 cup of premium flour, 1/2 cup of fine salt (not iodized!), ¼ cup of very cold water. Mix flour and salt in a bowl. Pour water in small parts, kneading the dough well each time. The amount of water can be different, it depends on the properties of the flour, so water should be poured in small portions. Knead until the dough crumbles and sticks to your hands. It will turn out very similar to plasticine. Store the dough in a closed container or bag so that it does not dry out in the refrigerator. Shelf life is three days. To keep the dough longer, you can add 2 tablespoons of citric acid during kneading. (UPD- It looks like citric acid somehow interacts with varnish for children's creativity, the first time I did it without it and the varnish was transparent, but now it's kind of whitish.)
How to color the dough.
You need to take a small piece of dough, make a cake and put a little gouache in it. Knead this piece until the dough is evenly colored. You can first mix the color on the palette, and then color the dough. But it is much more convenient to color the dough with the main colors, and then mix the already colored pieces until the desired new colors are obtained. For sculpting food, it is very important to repeat the color of what we are sculpting as accurately as possible.
For example - sausage color = pink + a little brown
pink = lots of white + little red
To sculpt food, you will need the following colors - white (a lot), pink, sand, brown, yellow, orange, green, red. And be sure to leave part of the test unpainted.
We sculpt almost like from plasticine. We take out the dough from the container in small pieces so that it does not dry out. If the dough is still dry, add a few drops of water. If wet, add a little flour. You can also dust your hands with flour. To glue individual pieces of dough, moisten the junction with water using a brush. We use improvised materials for modeling - a garlic press, a strainer, toothpicks and more.
How to blind:
Broccoli
Let's see what broccoli looks like. Mixing three green shades. From a piece of the lightest shade we sculpt a sausage, divide it into small segments - these are broccoli legs.
We squeeze our dough through a kitchen metal strainer, we get an interesting texture. We moisten the leg with water and “glue” on it what was pushed through the strainer.
Sausage
We make a thin cake of sausage color. We lay thin strips of white dough on it. We turn the cake, roll it a little in our hands and put it in the refrigerator for a while. When it has cooled, cut the sausage into slices. We saw, but do not squeeze the dough.
Ice cream
We make a sand-colored cake, a ball and a cone of white. On the cake, with the back of the knife, we squeeze the cells, like a waffle. Let it lie down a little, dry a little - a piece that is too soft cannot be wrapped like a waffle. We make ice cream from white parts and wrap it in a waffle.
Cheese
Cheesy color = yellow + a little orange.
We make a cake, cut off the excess to make a triangular slice of cheese. With the rod from the handle we make holes, large holes with the back, small holes with the nose of the rod.
Bread and other dough products
We sculpt pieces of bread from uncolored dough, pies can be sculpted from uncolored dough or from sand-colored dough. We tint already completely dried products with crayons of oil pastels for children's creativity - we make a golden crust.
It is better to dry finished products simply in the air, on a smooth surface - for example, on a plastic file or oilcloth. When the top dries, turn over to dry the bottom.
When drying, the products turn a little pale, they must be covered with any varnish. It is better for children to use a special water-based varnish for children's creativity - it has no smell.
More
You can make a completely liquid dough (add water) and spread it. So you can depict butter on a sandwich or chocolate icing.
In order not to confuse with the sizes, it is good to try on while sculpting to the plate from which the toys will then be eaten.
We got to dessert.
Bon appetit:)
In this article, I will show you how to make salt dough crafts that are easy and beautiful. Thanks to a series of master classes, you will learn the basic techniques for making products from testoplastics and learn how to work with it.
In fact, the principles of modeling from dough do not fundamentally differ from modeling from plasticine, clay or plastic, but still it is worth noting some features. So, the dough is a rather delicate material and a fragile material. Best of all, small flat crafts are obtained from it. Large and bulky products can also be made, but this is already a more difficult task for such a material. So, if you are just starting to sculpt from dough or want to get creative with your children, then I recommend stopping at simple, small, flat products.
- flour - 2 tbsp.
- salt "Extra" - 1 tbsp.
- water - 2/3 tbsp.
- potato starch - 0.5 tbsp.
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.
- food colorings
Mix all ingredients. The result is a soft plastic dough. If stored in the refrigerator, it may become more liquid. In this case, add flour and salt to it.
From such a test, you can sculpt many simple and beautiful crafts. See below for a few step-by-step tutorials.
Master class "Medallions"
One of the most interesting salt dough modeling ideas is the creation of medallions. Here you can experiment with all sorts of textures, make prints and apply stamps.
All you need to make a medallion is a piece of dough and a textured surface or stamp.
Roll the dough into a ball and flatten it.
Now you can experiment to your heart's content. Make prints with buttons, dry herbs, artificial flowers, shells, toys. Use any objects of interesting shape and texture.
With a tube we make a hole for threading a lace or ribbon.
We dry the products at room temperature, on the battery or in the oven.
And now, if you wish, you can decorate salt dough medallions by applying tinting to the print with paint that matches the color.
Master class "Aromo-mandalas"
In this master class, I will tell you how to make very easy and beautiful crafts from salt dough - aroma mandalas. The idea of their creation is similar to the previous one. Only now we will not make an imprint, but a three-dimensional decor from seeds, cereals, and beans. In addition, you can add essential oil or just food flavoring to such a product and a pleasant smell will accompany you for another 1-2 weeks.
This craft is great for classes with kids who are just learning to sculpt. Salt dough is a harmless material that, even if eaten, will not harm the child's body, unlike the same plasticine. In addition, even if the child tries the dough "on the tooth", he is unlikely to like it, because a large amount of salt makes the product completely inedible.
So, how is a mandala made? I tell you step by step.
We take pieces of colored salt dough, food flavoring and a variety of cereals, legumes.
Add a couple of drops of flavoring to the dough and knead well.
We make a ball and flatten it.
Decorate with cereals, legumes, grains.
With the help of the stack we make patterns.
In the same way, I made a blue mandala.
This time I decided to make a mandala with a pendant, so I made a hole with a straw.
After drying, this is how it turned out.
And this is a green mandala. She's already dry. I dried it at room temperature for 3-4 days.
Here they are, aroma mandalas from salt dough. In the same way, you can make a decorative panel on the wall.
Master class "Aromo-pebbles"
By the same principle as aroma mandalas, you can make pebbles to scent the room. Just add a few drops of essential oil to the dough and mold it into many small pebbles. Food flavoring can be used instead of oil.
Then you can make them textured by creating prints with different stamps and objects.
And it can be interesting to paint already dried products.
Place the stones in a bowl or vase and place them on a shelf in your room. The scent lasts 1-2 weeks.
Master class "Christmas toys"
A very simple and inexpensive way to decorate a Christmas tree is to make toys with your own hands. You can create them not only from paper and cardboard. Beautiful and easy crafts can also be made from salt dough. I'll tell you how I make them.
I take white or colored dough, a rolling pin and cookie cutters.
I roll out the dough and cut out all kinds of shapes with molds. Entrust this process to children, they will surely enjoy participating in the preparation for the holiday!
Now the cut out figures can be decorated. For example, make decorations from pieces of dough in contrasting shades.
You can also glue cereals, seeds. There are all sorts of patterns.
You can make many holes with a tube. Openwork products will come out.
Stamps and textured items will create interesting prints.
You can use beads and beads. The result is a stained glass effect.
You can decorate already dried Christmas tree products with napkins using the decoupage technique. To do this, we cut out the desired pattern, separate the top colorful layer of the napkin and glue it to the salt dough toy using PVA glue mixed with water in equal proportions. You can also use special decoupage glue.
Master class "Candlesticks"
Very light and beautiful crafts made from salt dough - candlesticks. They are easy to make, take little time, and look spectacular. How to make them?
Take a piece of red dough.
We make it in the form of a heart. We flatten a little.
Now we take a small tea candle and place it in the middle of the test heart.
We take out the candle, leave the product to dry at room temperature. We cover the heart with varnish.
We put on a candle. The candlestick is ready!
In the same way, you can make candlesticks from salt dough in all sorts of other shapes. For example, in the form of a flower. Or you can create a product in a marine style - by gluing shells.
Master class "Heart in decoupage technique"
We make hearts from salt dough. They can be molded by hand. In this case, the dough must be necessarily white, otherwise the tone of the product will shine through a thin layer of a napkin.
You can also cut them out with a stencil or cookie cutter.
We leave the crafts to dry at room temperature or send them to the oven for one hour (temperature 50 degrees). Now we cut out the necessary elements from the napkin. Separate the top paint layer.
We apply it to the product and on top, with a hard brush, apply PVA glue diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1.
We leave to dry. We tint by printing with ink, acrylic paints or oil pastels.
After coloring, if desired, the craft can be varnished. That's all, a great souvenir for February 14 is ready!
Master class "Mold of a child's hand"
Casts of children's hands and feet are a great opportunity to keep memories for years to come. Imagine how happy your baby will be when in 5-10 years you show him a cast of his little arm or leg. Special materials with which such casts are made are quite expensive. But there is a way to make a similar product from improvised materials. It's about salt dough. With proper storage, crafts from it can remain intact for many years. And this is exactly what we need in this case. In addition, salt dough is a plastic and very durable material after drying. How to make a cast of a pen out of it, see this master class.
So, to make a cast of salt dough, you will need the following materials:
- salty dough
- acrylic or gouache paints
- tassel
- ribbon
- rolling pin
- tube for cocktails
First, roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Its thickness should be approximately 3 cm.
Now ask the baby to put his hand on the dough cake and put pressure on it.
It turns out here is such a blind.
Now, using a stack, remove excess dough from the edges of the print.
It turns out like this.
With a cocktail tube, squeeze out a hole into which you will later insert the ribbon.
Leave your hand to dry at room temperature. It is better not to dry such a product in an oven or on a radiator, because it tends to shrink and deform when it dries quickly. Complete drying of the cast can take a week or more. This photo shows that the middle is still a little dry.
The reverse side is already dry.
And here is a completely dried craft made from salt dough.
It remains to paint it. I chose gouache.
Color the center yellow.
Paint the edges red and blue.
In the middle we sign the name and age of the child.
We pass a ribbon into the hole. We make a loop. Here is such a cast of salt dough as a result.
Now you know how to make crafts from salt dough, light and beautiful products from which can become a wonderful decoration for your home, a gift for relatives and friends. Good luck and bright creativity!
Sculpting is a great way to develop fine motor skills in children. However, kids are very fond of tasting everything, so traditional modeling materials, like clay or plasticine, are often not suitable for classes. There is a great alternative - salt dough: it is very easy to sculpt from it, it is much softer and more pliable than the same plasticine, and at the same time, it is absolutely safe for the child.
Any product can be made from this material. Small children (from one and a half years old) can, under your guidance, try to create simple figurines from salt dough, and an older child can try any crafts, souvenirs or toys that only imagination and skill are capable of.
How to make salt dough?
On top of all the benefits of this material for modeling, it is also very affordable, as it can be quickly made in your kitchen.
There are many recipes for making salt dough, so everyone has the opportunity to choose the most convenient and simple for themselves.
Here is one way:
- take a glass of salt (about 200 g), add 2 cups of flour, and dilute with water (more than half a glass), knead the dough;
- you will determine the degree of its readiness along the way: if the dough sticks to your hands and stretches too much, add a little more flour, and if it crumbles, then there is not enough water;
- try rolling a ball and making a few indentations in it (the finished dough will keep its shape well without blurring);
- when kneading, it is recommended to add a little (a tablespoon) of vegetable oil;
- for sculpting relief figures, add 2 tablespoons of starch;
- wrap the well-mixed mass with polyethylene and refrigerate for several hours;
- toys made from salt dough can be painted ready-made, or you can immediately prepare colored dough (make it in several separate containers and add food coloring, instant coffee, beetroot or carrot juice, acrylic or gouache paints, etc. when kneading).
You can watch special master classes if you are going to sculpt for the first time.
The goal of modeling classes for children should be to form an interest in this art, to familiarize themselves with all the properties and capabilities of the material: the dough can be torn, crushed, flattened, rolled, crumbled, dried. Teach your child to invent stories, make toys or figurines of acting characters for them, and combine them into whole large compositions. This will help you not only develop and improve the fine motor skills of children, but will also develop their imagination, imagination, and speech.
Making simple crafts with kids
Sculpt should be on a special board for modeling or a baking sheet. Also prepare a small rolling pin to roll out the dough, a brush (you will sometimes have to moisten the dough with water), stacks - sticks for working with plasticine or dough, other details, depending on the direction of your work (paints, molds, decorations, etc.).
If you are just starting to work with a small child, choose the simplest schemes and master classes so that it is easy and interesting for children to sculpt products.
First, you can do something by showing it to the child, then perform actions with his hand, and then let him try to create a toy from salt dough with his own hands.
Come up with a fairy tale about your character with your child. For example, it is very easy to make a cute little caterpillar or even her whole family, and then play with them.
In the same way, other toys are created very simply - octopuses, a snake, cats, fish, birds, vegetables and fruits. You can cut blanks out of cardboard, and then circle them already on the test.
Also, for little children, a very simple master class on making figures from salt dough as Christmas tree decorations will be available.
As a memorable home souvenir, you can make prints of the child's legs and hands, and on the back, sign how old the baby was.
Making more complex toys
There are master classes that show that you can create more complex toys, figurines, or even entire compositions with your own hands. For example, try with older children to make a cute hedgehog or the whole hedgehog family.
In the same way, you can make a sheep, an owl, and any other voluminous toy.
Master classes will help you create even whole paintings from salt dough, which will become not only an excellent decoration for your home, but also a wonderful original souvenir for a gift. Pictures are best sculpted on fabric, foil or painted cardboard. When the craft is completely dry, paint it and varnish it.
I have already written many times about how important the baby is. Yes, I think you know this very well without me. Therefore, today, without further ado, I want to tell you about another exciting and very useful activity - about modeling with kids and how you can play if you have a piece of dough at hand. All these games are useful not only for the development of fine motor skills, but also for the development of imagination, thinking, perseverance of the baby.
Often, mothers ask themselves the question: “What is better to choose for classes with a baby: dough or plasticine?” In my opinion, it would be better if you give the child the opportunity to get acquainted with different substances and sensations, you will conduct classes with both dough and plasticine. But here for the smallest (from 1 year old) it is better to use dough in modeling classes and that's why:
The dough is much softer and more pliable than clay, and for kids who still find it difficult to knead clay, this is important.
Considering the fact that many kids will want to taste the modeling mass, the dough (home-made) is much safer from this point of view, since its main components are flour, salt and water, and plasticine is still a combination of chemical components.
The dough can be prepared independently, or can be purchased at a store (for example, "Play Doh"). But if at least once you knead the dough at home, then, for sure, you will no longer want to deal with the purchased one. Homemade dough is more plastic, softer, more pleasant, and there is a lot of it! In addition, the process of preparing the dough is quite simple and does not take much time.
So how do you make play dough? Here are two test recipes that I have repeatedly tested and I really like. The first recipe can be called a classic salt dough recipe. The dough on it is prepared very quickly and simply, it is often used to create durable crafts, after drying it can be painted.
Salt dough for modeling - a classic recipe
1 cup flour
½ cup salt (preferably "extra")
½ glass of water
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Mix all ingredients and mix well until smooth.
Recipe for a very plastic dough
And one more recipe for a very, very soft, plastic, homogeneous and, I would even say, ideal dough! :) It is not suitable for drying and painting, but it is the best for fun games with dough.
1 cup flour
1 glass of water
¼ cup salt
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp citric acid
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, stir, then place over medium heat. After that, we begin to actively stir the dough with a spoon until it forms a ball and stops sticking to our hands. It will take no more than 3 minutes to mix. After the dough has cooled, you can start playing with it.
Do not neglect such a seemingly insignificant ingredient as citric acid! If you do not add it, then after storage in the refrigerator, the dough will begin to stick to your hands.
Food coloring can be added to any version of the dough. If you do not have a dye to tint the dough, you can use beet or carrot juice, turmeric, brilliant green, gouache. Well, if you divide the dough into several parts and paint them in different colors, it will be even more interesting!
Both doughs keep in the refrigerator in a closed container for quite a long time (several weeks).
Test games
So, you have the dough, what to do with it next? First of all, of course, you need to introduce the baby to the test. Give him the opportunity to touch, crush him. You can mold some kind of bun or bunny in order to show what the dough is capable of. If the acquaintance went well, you can move on to games.
Remember that the whole lesson should not last longer than 5-10 minutes. Do not try to include all the games in one lesson, watch the baby and always stop before he gets tired of the lesson. If a child loses interest in a particular game, it may be too easy or too difficult for him. Try to simplify or make the task easier.
1. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin
The kid, most likely, will begin to roll out the dough with pleasure, because he has seen more than once how his mother does it. If the crumbs are not good at wielding a rolling pin, help him by clasping his hands with yours.
Both a toy and a real kitchen rolling pin are suitable for the game. My daughter likes to roll with a big rolling pin even more.
2. Press various objects into the dough
Further, you can declare that the resulting cake is not just a cake, but a pizza or cake, which now needs to be decorated. And for this purpose, you can use a variety of items: matches, pasta, beans, counting sticks, small toys, lids, etc. Try to use objects of different shapes and sizes to diversify the child's tactile sensations.
3. Create simple crafts based on pressing objects into the dough
Here are some examples:
- Hedgehog
For the smallest, toothpicks can be replaced with matches or counting sticks.
- little man
Be sure to involve the child in rolling the torso and head. If the baby is not doing well yet, take his hands in yours and make rotational movements together.
4. Pinch off small pieces of dough, put them in a jar / bowl
This activity is very useful for the development of fine motor skills, as it trains the "plucked" grip. Beating the lesson is quite simple: invite the baby to feed his favorite bear with sweets. The game is likely to appeal to the smallest - children about a year old. At this age, kids really like to mess with small objects, fold and shift them.
5. Prick the dough on a fork
The same sweets that you made for the bear, try also to stick on the fork. You can tell the baby that the bear prefers to eat only from a fork, but refuses in a different way. So in the game we will quietly work out a very useful skill.
6. Cut with a knife
In this lesson, the main thing is to teach the child to hold the knife correctly and, importantly, to hold the dough on his own with his left hand (if the baby is right-handed). A toy plastic knife, a special plastic dough knife or a butter knife are well suited for playing. The lesson will be interesting for a baby from about 1 year 3 months.
7. Leave prints on the test
We press the toy into the dough, carefully remove it and ale-op, a beautiful pattern is obtained on the dough! Taisiya was simply delighted with this activity, and could get carried away for a long time, imprinting pasta on the dough.
Good for printing sorter figures, pasta tubes, small toys, designer parts, fork, comb . Well, if a car passes through the test, leaving traces (preferably with large wheels and protectors on them), then the baby will most likely appreciate it.
And, of course, it is worth mentioning the cookie cutters separately. With the help of them, you can not only make beautiful prints. With older kids, you can try to remove the "excess" dough around the molds so that you get "cookies".
Fingerprints can also be made with just a finger. After that, it will be very interesting to “sow” the seeds into the resulting holes. It will turn out another wonderful exercise for the development of a "tweezer" grip.
8. Pass the dough through a garlic press
9. Put the dough into a mold - make a pie
For this game, you can use both cupcake molds and clean molds from the sand set. Putting the dough in a mold, we try to properly compact each piece. Most likely, you will have to get the pie out of the mold with your mother's help, because. this job is not easy.
10. Hiding surprises in the dough and finding them
This is our favorite game. I think all children love when there is a surprise moment in the game. They are ready to open intricate locks, unscrew stubborn covers, just to see what is hidden behind them. Children are happy to find surprises, even if they themselves hid them!
Therefore, in this lesson, first, together with the baby, we hide the toy in the dough, putting it on one half of the cake and closing the second. Older kids can be offered to pinch the edges, as when sculpting a pie. For younger children, mom can do it. Well, then we ask ourselves the question “Where is our hedgehog?” or “Oh, who is hiding here?”. Perhaps, at the first games, the baby will have to show how to "dig" to the toy. Most likely, the baby will catch everything very quickly and will subsequently pick up the dough with impatience.
Even such a seemingly simple task is incredibly useful for children's fingers.
11. Sculpt sausages, koloboks and simple figures with my mother's help.
And of course, in addition to simple games, you can try to mold the simplest figures together with your baby - a gingerbread man, a sausage, a snail, a bunny, etc. I will definitely write more about what you can mold with our young sculptors in a separate article in the near future. Do not miss .
That's all for me, I wish you pleasant joint games and more happy smiles on your baby's face! I would be very grateful if you share this article with your friends on social networks (there are special buttons for this at the bottom of the article).
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