Salt dough modeling ideas. As for the recipe for the dough itself, it is standard for ordinary three-dimensional figures.

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.

Show your child how to make a caterpillar: you need to pinch off small pieces from the dough and roll balls of different sizes from them.

For the head of the product you will need a large ball, and for the body - a few smaller parts. The final look of the craft depends on how many balls you get, and what diameter they will be.

Then you can connect all the balls together. To make the elements stick to each other better, moisten them with water at the junctions.

The muzzle of the caterpillar can be drawn or molded, and the antennae can be made from cut matches.

Now the product needs to be dried. Some prefer to do it naturally. This method will take you about 3-4 days. Also, figures from salt dough can be dried in the oven: if it was preheated to 55-80 ° C, then you will need to keep the product there on a baking sheet with parchment paper for about an hour, and if you put the figures in a cold oven, then set the temperature to 150 ° C and, after drying a little, leave the crafts in the oven until it cools down.

When the toy is dry, color it with your child. This can be done with gouache, acrylics or watercolors.

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.

Prepare a few multi-colored pieces of dough.

Roll them out well, and using a variety of cookie cutters, cut out the figures you need.

Make holes in the figurines with a tube or stick so that they can then be hung by a thread or ribbon on a Christmas tree.

If you make a lot of holes, then you will get real openwork figures.

Products can also be decorated with beads (only with plastic it will not be possible to dry them in the oven), various cereals, buttons, shells, pieces of glass beads, etc. Sprinkle the finished toy with sparkles (on a layer of glue or varnish).

Figures painted with permanent markers, or decorated with all kinds of stamps (for children's creativity, of any texture) also look very nice.

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.

Since you will be working on a 3D salt dough figurine, you will need some kind of ball to create the hedgehog's torso. You can take wooden, plastic or even foil, as long as it is very dense.

Cover it well with dough so that there are no holes anywhere.

The eyes and nose of the hedgehog can be made from dough or you can use any means at hand (for example, large peppercorns).

With the help of nail scissors, form needles on the back of the hedgehog (make row after row in a checkerboard pattern).

You can also make fruit that your forest dweller will carry on his back.

Then you should dry the hedgehog and decorate it. Cover the product with clear nail polish so that the paint does not fade and the appearance of the figurine does not deteriorate over time.

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.

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 construction 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), which is rolled up 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 another 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 the 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.

Happy New Year.

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Modeling dough is a mass resembling plasticine, but softer, does not stick, does not stain, does not have a strong odor and does not cause allergies. How to make salt dough for modeling at home? The best homemade dough is made from salt, flour and cold water.

Working with plastic mass is incredibly exciting and useful in terms of developing fine motor skills. This contributes to the activation of the points of the brain responsible for the coordination of movements, objective actions and speech. And this is not all the advantages of modeling dough, it is:

• Increases perseverance.
• Develops logic and creative thinking.
• Improves concentration and perception.
• Develops the ability to work with small objects and helps in mastering the intricacies of manipulation.

Every mother can make a useful mass, because the technique is not much different from making dough for dumplings. In the article I will consider the most popular recipes. I will start with the classics, and later I will switch to more complex options.

Classic Salt Dough Recipe

I offer a classic recipe for salt dough for modeling, which involves the use of the simplest ingredients that are present in every kitchen. It is incredibly popular among experienced craftsmen, people with little experience and beginners.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 300 g.
• Salt - 300 g.
• Water - 200 ml.

Cooking:

1. Pour salt into a deep container, add some water. I advise you not to use all the liquid at once, because in each case the moisture content of the flour is different.
2. After the salt dissolves, add the sifted flour. Mix in a bowl first. After the formation of a lump, transfer the mass to the work surface and complete the process. To increase plasticity, gradually add water.
3. Place the finished dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate. After two or three hours, the salty mass is ready for work.

Video recipe

From these proportions, quite a lot of salt dough is obtained. If large crafts are not planned, cut the number of ingredients by half or four. If the mass remains, store it in a film in the refrigerator, just like the slime mass is stored. In this form, it retains its original qualities for a month.

How to make dough in 5 minutes

If salt dough crafts have become a family hobby, I recommend arming yourself with a recipe thanks to which you will make another portion of the elastic mass at home in 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 1 cup.
• Water - 1 cup.
• Soda - 2 teaspoons.
• Salt - 0.3 cups.
• Vegetable oil - 1 teaspoon.
• Food coloring.

Cooking:

1. Pour a mixture of salt, soda and flour into a small saucepan, pour in water along with vegetable oil. Put the container on a small fire and heat for several minutes, stirring regularly. Add dye and stir.
2. Watch the density of the dough. If it sticks to the spoon, it's done. Put the mass on a plate to cool. After that, knead thoroughly with your hands.
3. Store your salt dough in a bag or food container or it will dry out. If the mass has dried up, do not be discouraged. Add some water and mash.

Videos cooking

Quick salt dough has another advantage - a long shelf life. Subject to all the rules, the dough retains its properties for several months. With this material, you will not be bored.

Recipe without starch with glycerin

Some craftsmen cover the surface with a layer of varnish to give the crafts shine. But such a result can be achieved without the help of paints and varnishes, because there is glycerin, which is sold in all pharmacies.

Ingredients:

1. Boiling water - 2 cups.
2. Flour - 400 g.
3. Glycerin - 0.5 teaspoon.
4. Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons.
5. Tartar - 2 tablespoons.
6. Fine salt - 100 g.
7. Dye.

Cooking:

1. Make a base. In a small container, combine cream of tartar, vegetable oil, salt and flour.
2. Bring water to a boil in a small saucepan. Pour in the flour base, add the dye and glycerin. Cook until the mass acquires a homogeneous consistency.
3. Cool the resulting composition and knead thoroughly. Add flour if necessary.

Having made a figure from dough without starch, you will see that it has a pleasant sheen. This craft will be a wonderful gift for mom on March 8 or a friend for her birthday.

How to make dough for modeling without flour

The highlight of this plastic mass is the absence of flour in the composition. The technology for making salt dough for modeling is suitable for craftsmen who do not like working with a white, quick-tempered ingredient.

Ingredients:

• Starch - 1 cup.
• Baking soda - 2 cups.
• Water - 0.5 cups.
• Natural food coloring.

Cooking:

1. In a deep bowl, mix cornstarch with baking soda. While stirring the mixture, pour in the water in a stream.
2. Put the container with the ingredients on a small fire and cook until a ball forms.
3. Place the cooled mixture on a floured surface and knead. The dough is ready.

There is no flour in this dough, but it is great for modeling. Use this easy-to-make plastic material to create a variety of shapes that will showcase your talent to others.

What can be done from salt dough - examples of crafts

We examined the technology for preparing salt dough for modeling. It's time to put the salty stuff to work. If you are a beginner, I recommend starting with the simplest figures. Over time, having gained precious experience, switch to more complex crafts.

Experienced craftsmen make various figures and compositions from salt dough. The result depends only on the imagination. In this part of the article I will give some good examples with step-by-step instructions for making. They will help to learn the basics even for children.

mushroom

1. To create a hat, roll a small ball and lightly press on one side.
2. Make a sausage. When rolling, press down on one side a little. Get a leg.
3. It remains to collect the figurine. To increase reliability, use a toothpick.
4. After the dough has dried, decorate the mushroom as you wish.

beads

• Roll the dough into several dozen equal-sized and even balls. Put the balls on the toothpicks.
• Leave the balloons outside for a few days to dry. I advise you to turn the beads several times a day.
• Carefully remove the toothpicks from the dried balls. String beads on ribbon or string. For a more beautiful product, color the beads with markers.

Christmas decorations

1. Roll out the salt dough into a sheet. Using a cardboard stencil or cookie cutter, squeeze out the shapes.
2. Use a straw for cocktails to make holes in the figurines. Dry the dough.
3. It remains to decorate the Christmas decorations and thread a beautiful ribbon through the hole.

Rose

• Make a cone out of a small amount of dough.
• Roll into a small ball and roll into a cake. Attach the fragment to the cone.
• Attach a similar element on the opposite side. Get a button.
• Roll up a few balls and make petals. Attach to the flower in a circle.
• Bend the upper edges of the petals slightly back, and press the sides.
• After the dough has dried, paint the figurine scarlet.

Puzzles

1. Make a large stencil of a figure out of cardboard, for example, a cat. Roll out the dough into a layer. Using a stencil, cut out a large figure. Leave the dough until morning to dry.
2. Cut the cat figurine into fragments with a sharp knife. Wait for complete drying.
3. Color the craft with markers or gouache. After drying, cover each piece with a layer of clear varnish.

Video examples of figurines

As you can see, salt dough is ideal for creating simple and complex shapes and compositions. And these are just a few of the ideas. With the help of imagination, you can create a variety of toys, jewelry, souvenirs and other crafts.

In conclusion, I will share the secrets of experienced craftsmen who will make working with the material more productive and the result more impressive.

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Over the years, dough plastics professionals have reached such heights that their products can be safely put on a par with plaster or clay figurines, panels and small sculptures.

The material is also unique in that even an unintelligent two-year-old child can start modeling. Dough crafts only at first glance seem like a fun pampering or childish pastime. If interest in them does not fade with age, you can learn how to create serious large-scale works that will decorate houses or even museum exhibitions for decades.

The uniqueness of the material

Before turning to the practical aspect of testoplasty, it should be explained why, in fact, this natural material is so unique that it managed to attract the attention and interest of dozens of beginners and experienced sculptors.

The uniqueness of salt dough (namely, this type is used) consists of several positions:

1. Profitability. If you take one kilogram of ready-made dough and the same amount of plasticine, which is not the most expensive, the first one will cost several times cheaper.
2. Availability. High-quality plasticine or various sets for children's creativity are not only expensive, but also not always available in stores. And water, salt, flour will always be found in any family or in the nearest trading tent.
3. Environmental friendliness. Modern modeling materials contain a huge amount of substances that, to put it mildly, are not entirely useful not only for children, but also for adults. And the naturalness and safety of homemade dough is 100% unconditional. Therefore, parents can absolutely not worry, looking at the hands and muzzles of babies soiled with mass.
4. Durability. Finished figurines and crafts, if properly dried, will last for decades. But plasticine ones can swim, burn out and simply fall apart.
5. aesthetic appeal. Salt dough crafts, masterfully made in different techniques, painted and varnished, look amazing, spectacular, bright and very stylish.
6. A variety of recipes, modeling techniques. The dough can be prepared in many ways, as well as making crafts. It can be a toy, figurine, sculpture, panel, painting, bouquet or even a vase of flowers. And if you use additional decor (beads, ribbons, fur, etc.), you get a rather complex composition that belongs to the class of bioceramics.

Salt dough crafts, masterfully made in different techniques, painted and varnished, look amazing, spectacular, bright and very stylish.

Based on the foregoing, it becomes clear why the popularity of the test is only growing. And if you are interested in testoplasty, we will tell you how to prepare the initial salty mass.

Dough preparation

The more malleable and plastic the initial mass is, the easier and easier it will be to work with it, the more detailed the figure is worked out. And pliability is the correct kneading and strict observance of proportions. There are a lot of ways to prepare edible "plasticine", and every housewife will surely choose the best one for herself over time. Here is the one that is considered the most popular.

The more supple and plastic the initial mass is, the easier and easier it will be to work with it, the more detailed the figure is worked out.

If you need salt dough for sculpting crafts, the recipe will be as follows: you need to take a pound of wheat flour (required of the highest grade), 200 ml of ice-cold unboiled water, 200 g of extra grade salt.

Knead the dough thoroughly, until smooth without lumps and gaps. It is then that the finished products will retain their appearance and integrity for a very long time, and sculpting will be very simple. Such material is obedient and will quickly embody any creative thought of a child or an adult. Plus, it's… edible.

Attention! If a young creator wants to send a ready-made bear, bunny or strawberry into his mouth, the parent will only have to smile: there will be no harm from this.

Proper drying and coloring

If the ingredients have been verified with Swiss precision, the dough has succeeded, and the process of creating a work of art has been completed, this does not mean that it will be possible to preserve it for many years. For the finished work, you still need to dry it properly or, as some say, bake it. Let's make a reservation right away: microwave ovens, solar window sills, hot batteries, open balconies and super-hot greenhouses are not suitable for this! If you leave the figurine just on the table, let's say for a day, it can only dry out by ... a millimeter, which means that it will soon deform and fall apart.

The dough needs heat treatment (by the way, like firing clay), and with strict adherence to temperature and baking time

The dough needs heat treatment (by the way, like firing clay), and with strict adherence to temperature and baking time. However, the size of the object also matters: if it is a large figurine, it will take longer to dry, and a small one will dry a little faster.

Finished masterpieces should be placed in the oven in a baking dish, which must be covered with foil. At a minimum temperature of 75ºС, it takes an hour to dry the product, at 10ºС - half an hour, at 120 and 150 - 30 minutes. During this time, the figures must be periodically rotated, shifted from one side to the other, so that the baking is uniform.

Advice! If an edible figurine made with your own hands contains decor made of rhinestones, beads, beads, you should not set the temperature above 120ºС.

The dried item must cool, and only then it can be painted. It is better to take gouache or acrylic for this. The choice of colors and painting technique remains with the author. You can go the other way: color the dough itself during kneading, using factory food colors for this.

Colored masterpieces must be coated with a colorless varnish, preferably in two layers. Any nail polish will do. And then the work will not fade and fade for a very, very long time.

Colored masterpieces must be coated with colorless varnish, preferably in two layers.

Crafts for a child 2-3 years old

The versatility of the test lies in the fact that it is suitable for both serious masters with experience, and teenagers, and kids, who, with its help, develop creative inclinations, attention, perseverance, and fine motor skills in a playful way. Naturally, two- or three-year-olds a priori will not be able to create something large and complex. Therefore, you need to start with elementary, understandable characters and objects.

For children, tactile contact is very important, they always want to touch and feel everything.

For children, tactile contact is very important, they always want to touch and feel everything. Therefore, at the first stage, let the baby just hold it, crush the mass in the pens.

• funny caterpillars, snails, bows, numbers, vegetables will come out of “sausages” rolled up with a rolling pin or hands;
• from balls of different sizes, you can make snowmen, smeshariki, koloboks, little men, especially if you add extraneous decor;
• you can make a wall, a pyramid, a house from flour cubes, or you can write the letters of the alphabet on them and add the name of the child, the simplest words;
• if you roll the dough into a pancake, you can squeeze funny faces on it with various objects, lay out simple pictures, figures, silhouettes with colorful beans, pasta;
• from the same pancake, you can cut out finished figures with cookie cutters.

With age and acquired skills, the child will be able to do something on a larger scale.

With age and acquired skills, the child will be able to do something bigger.

Crafts for preschoolers

After 4 years, the child may already be bored with stacking cubes and balls. Here we need something more complex. An older child can be offered to complete pictures from a test.

Let him first draw what he wants on a small piece of paper. Then this image will turn into a three-dimensional one, which the child will color in the final stage.

Important! You can’t do without the help of an adult, but at 4-5 years old, the child will have more independence.

Pictures can be very different: simple landscapes, animals, flowers, nature. If a holiday is approaching, you can make such a picture as a gift. After painting, the craft must be varnished and hung on the wall. For the baby, this will be a clear reason to be proud of yourself.

Six-year-olds are already able to complete complex, voluminous compositions, especially if their modeling experience is 2-3 years. Preschoolers have the patience and skills to make small sculptures, animal figurines, whole flower vases or fruit baskets. Fans of cartoons or superhero movies can easily sculpt their favorite character or an entire scene from a movie. Many are able to spend more than one day on work and carry out the entire creative process on their own from creating a sketch to its implementation.

Preschoolers have the patience and skills to make small sculptures, animal figurines, whole flower vases or fruit baskets.

The older the child becomes, the larger and more complex the work will be. Choosing salt dough for sculpting crafts, usually young creators simply gush with ideas.

However, viewing photos on the Internet can not only spur their imagination, but also discover new ways, work techniques, unusual colors, teach them how to use third-party decor, expand their creative horizons and, possibly, turn bioceramics into a life's work.

Sculpting with children from colored salt dough

Master class from Natalia Korobkina. She offers a simple lesson on working with colored salt dough with children. How to blind turtle, sun, dragonfly and fly agaric?

First of all, let's prepare the workplace.

We roll up a sausage from the yellow dough and divide it into two parts.

We roll one part into another thin sausage and divide it into eight equal parts.

Now - a little trick. Find any cup on the farm whose base diameter is less than the neck and circle the bottom with a pencil on colored paper. Now we turn each of the eight pieces into a micro-sausage and flatten slightly. Now, focusing on the drawn circle, it will be easier for the child to evenly lay out the resulting rays of the future sun.

Take the second piece of dough and roll it into a cake 4-5 mm thick. Squeeze out a round disk with the neck of the cup and place it on top of the rays. Do not forget to wet the joints with water.

Let's trim the rays with a stack. Next, roll up two small balls from white dough, flatten them and place them on a disk. To make this “design” more like eyes, add a small ball to the center of each eye. The balls can be pressed lightly with the tip of the rod. So we get pupils. Well, for greater beauty, draw a stack of cilia.

From two small cakes and a thin flagellum we will create a smile. Add freckles with the same ballpoint pen. Cheerful sun is ready!

As you can see, everything is quite simple and accessible.

And here are some more examples of creating simple works. I will omit the detailed textual description. I think from the pictures and so everything is clear.