The hero of the handmade magnet is a pig made from salt dough, the symbol of the year 2019, a wonderful New Year's gift.
A master class on making a simple pig is suitable for beginners, children and joint creativity. The sculpting technique is simple, the cost of materials is pennies, and the result is admirable. You can give a cheerful piggy to friends, colleagues, teachers, classmates and everyone you wish happiness and success. Suitable materials include plasticine or polymer clay, choose the one that is more suitable for yourself.
Materials and tools
If you have never sculpted from dough made from flour and salt, get acquainted with this type of needlework. This will help you understand the nuances of kneading and drying and avoid mistakes.
To make a salt dough pig according to the proposed master class, you will need the following kit:
- flour – 50 g;
- salt – 50 g;
- water;
- gouache (pink, white, yellow);
- twine – 10 cm;
- black gel pen (or thin black marker);
- thin brush;
- tools for working with mastic (or alternative spatulas and knives made of metal or plastic);
- soft magnet;
- hot glue gun.
For those who prefer to sculpt from plasticine, we have plasticine.
Techniques for sculpting and decorating a pig
First of all, you need to prepare the mass for modeling. Dissolve salt in 30-40 ml of water, add flour and knead soft, elastic dough. It should not stick to your hands and contain large salt granules.
Take a small ball and form a flattened round piece with a diameter of about 5 cm. The disk should not be too thick, otherwise the dough will dry out for a long time.
Form a small disc for the patch. Secure the patch to the main workpiece.
Make two holes (nostrils).
Roll miniature balls and attach just above the pig's snout.
Use a spatula to make a shallow slit for the mouth.
Make a small rectangle of salt dough for the New Year's sign. Attach it just below the snout.
Form thin handle blanks. Attach them as if a salt dough pig is holding a sign symbolizing the New Year.
Form small ovals for the legs. Use a spatula to press out the cuts and round them with your hands. Punch holes.
Blind two thin parts in the form of drops. Attach the ears to the piglet's head, turning the sharp corners forward. Use a spatula to trim all rounded edges so that they are smooth and neat after drying. Place the salt dough craft in the oven to dry. at 120 degrees for 7-10 minutes.
To color the pig, mix pink gouache with a small amount yellow and white paint. Paint the snout and edges of the legs bright colors.
Mix a lighter shade of pink, covering the entire surface of the pig and legs (except for the eyes and nameplate). Paint the remaining elements with white paint. Squeeze thin white strokes onto the pink surface.
Draw the pig's eyebrows, pupils, nostrils, mouth and the inscription 2019 with a black gel pen (or a thin felt-tip pen). If you have another reason for congratulations, then make an appropriate inscription or draw something neutral. Instead of a sign, you can make a box of chocolates or a flower. A key or a house is suitable for a housewarming party.
Cut a circle from a soft sheet of magnet with a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the souvenir.
Glue pieces of twine to the legs. To do this, insert them into the holes and drip glue onto the sole. If the rope is thick, you can separate the weaves to make thin legs.
Glue the legs to the body and cover the back with a round magnet using a glue gun.
If you don't want to make a refrigerator magnet, turn the salt dough pig into a car pendant or other souvenir. Sizes are easy to change depending on personal preference.
If you need more pigs for gifts, check out our modeling tutorials and. Tired of sculpting? Then sew or. Create for yourself and your friends!
As you prepare for Valentine's Day, remember that you can give a gift with my own hands, putting all your soul and skill into it. There is nothing better and more pleasant than making a gift for your soulmate with your own hands. In this master class with step by step photos, you will learn how to make your own salt dough magnets for the refrigerator for Valentine's Day.
To make magnets you will need:
- One glass of flour;
- Frying pan;
- One glass of salt;
- Half a glass of water;
- A tablespoon of salt;
— Gouache;
- Glue gun;
- PVA glue;
— Rolling pin;
— Magnets;
— Brush;
- PVA glue;
— Knife;
- A toothpick.
Let's get started:
1) Knead the dough. Place the frying pan on the fire. Mix salt and flour and pour into a warm frying pan. Then, stirring constantly, pour in the water and oil. Gradually the dough will curl and take the shape of a ball. Turn off the heat and leave the dough to cool.
2) Cut off a small piece of dough. Roll it out with a rolling pin. Cut out a heart from cardboard or take a regular one, place it on the dough and cut it out. We smooth out the unevenness.
In this MK you will learn how to make several types.
First option. We make leaves from small pieces, using a toothpick we draw lines on the leaves.
Roll it up and give it the shape of a rose. and glue the leaves to the heart with PVA glue.
Second option. We make letters from the dough, in our case we make the phrase LOVE IS... (as on the well-known chewing gum) and glue it to the heart.
The third option contains the first two. We make roses and letters and glue it all to the heart.
3) Leave the magnets on the battery to dry winter season or put it in the oven for two to three hours on the lowest heat.
4) Coloring. We paint with gouache or regular paints. First we paint the large parts, and then the small ones. If desired, the top can be coated with varnish for shine.
In this master class you learned how to make magnets from salt dough. You can give them to someone close to you. Although this gift is small, it is made with your own hands from the bottom of your heart.
When you are preparing for Valentine's Day, remember that you can make a gift with your own hands, putting all your soul and skill into it. There is nothing better and more pleasant than making a gift for your soulmate with your own hands. In this master class with step-by-step photos, you will learn how to make salt dough magnets with your own hands for the refrigerator for Valentine's Day.
To make magnets you will need:
One glass of flour;
- Frying pan;
- One glass of salt;
- Half a glass of water;
- A tablespoon of salt;
- Gouache;
- Glue gun;
- PVA glue;
- Rolling pin;
- Magnets;
- Brush;
- PVA glue;
- Knife;
- A toothpick.
Let's get started:
1) Knead the dough. Place the frying pan on the fire. Mix salt and flour and pour into a warm frying pan. Then, stirring constantly, pour in the water and oil. Gradually the dough will curl and take the shape of a ball. Turn off the heat and leave the dough to cool.
2) Cut off a small piece of dough. Roll it out with a rolling pin. Cut out a heart from cardboard or take a regular valentine, place it on the dough and cut it out. We smooth out the unevenness.
In this MK you will learn how to make several types of magnets.
First option. We make leaves from small pieces, using a toothpick we draw lines on the leaves.
Roll it up and give it the shape of a rose. We glue the roses and leaves to the heart with PVA glue.
Second option. We make letters from the dough, in our case we make the phrase LOVE IS... (as on the well-known chewing gum) and glue it to the heart.
The third option contains the first two. We make roses and letters and glue it all to the heart.
3) We leave the magnets to dry on the battery during the winter season or put them in the oven for two to three hours on the lowest heat.
4) Coloring. We paint with gouache or regular paints. First we paint the large parts, and then the small ones. If desired, the top can be coated with varnish for shine.
5) Glue the magnets to the hearts using a glue gun.
That's it, the magnets are ready.
RECIPES OF SALT DOUGH FOR VARIOUS CRAFTS + MK on cat magnets.
Recipe No. 1 - for simple crafts.
200 g = (1 cup) flour
200 g = (0.5 cup) salt (fine, NOT rock).
125 ml water
Please note that salt is heavier than flour, so they are the same in weight, but salt in volume
takes about half as much.
Salt dough - recipes and modeling methods
For thin relief figures, add your choice:
15-20 g (tablespoon) PVA glue or
starch (tablespoon)
wallpaper glue (mix it with a small amount of water first)
Recipe No. 2 - Strong dough for large products:
200 g flour
400 g salt
125 ml water
Recipe No. 3 - Dough for delicate work:
300 g flour
200 g salt
4 tbsp. glycerin (can be purchased at a pharmacy)
2 tbsp. glue for simple wallpaper, pre-mix 125-150 ml of water.
It is better to use a mixer for kneading - this will simplify the task, and the dough will turn out better.
Universal recipe for salt dough: 2 cups flour; you can put it into flour without going beyond the norm of two
glasses, add dry starch. For example, 1.5 cups of flour 1/2 tbsp. starch. With added starch
the dough will become more elastic. This dough is particularly good at making fine parts, for example:
flower petals.), 1 glass of salt, 1 half glass of water, approximately 180 g, you can add 2 table. spoons
PVA glue. Instead of water, you can cook a starch paste.
Mix all ingredients. Knead the dough until the mass becomes homogeneous and elastic,
If the dough turns out watery, then you can knead it further, adding a little flour until
until it becomes elastic.
Water can be replaced with starch jelly, then the mass will be much more plastic.
Kissel is made like this:
Dissolve one tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Heat another 1 glass of water in
small saucepan until boiling. Pour the starch solution into boiling water, stirring. When content
pan thickens and becomes transparent, turn off the heat. Let the jelly cool and pour it into the flour mixture
with salt instead of water.
METHODS OF COLORING SALT DOUGH
You can tint salt dough food coloring, watercolor or gouache. You can also paint
when preparing the dough, adding dye during kneading, and then ready product- on the surface.
Great chocolate color obtained by adding cocoa. You can experiment with others
natural dyes - soot, beet juice, carrots, ocher, etc. Can be a product made from salt dough
Brown in the oven for natural color.
When tinting, you must take into account that after drying the color will become less saturated, but if you cover
craft with varnish - it will become brighter again. What varnish can I use? Acrylic and artistic are
Very good. It is also possible to use a regular water-based construction material for breathable surfaces.
those. 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 it to salty
pancake dough (or flour with any other additives), since the figures will rise like
good dough for pie and crackle.
Also, do not add iodized salt; large inclusions do not dissolve, and subsequently the dough will not
homogeneous - into a grain. Likewise, you cannot add rock salt without prior dissolution.
About the water. So, in the test it is best to use very cold water; be sure to add in parts
50 ml after each addition, stir (due to the fact that for different flours, may be needed
different amounts of water).
The salt is first mixed with flour, and only then water is poured into the finished mass.
Salt dough is stored in plastic bag or tightly sealed container. Salt dough from
It is better to remove the plastic bag in small pieces, since the dough lumps quickly
become covered with a crust and when rolled out or molded, these dry crusts spoil the appearance.
And one more thing, if the figures are thick (more than 7 mm), then after the first stage, you need to reverse
remove the excess dough from each side (the picture is in Khananova’s book, on the page in the books)
The dough may be too soft. Then proceed as follows: mix at the bottom of the bowl
a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then scrunch it up.
Do this until the dough becomes more dense.
You can sculpt or cut out figures directly on a baking sheet. The baking tray should be moistened first
water, in this case bubbles do not form between the product and the surface of the baking sheet, therefore,
the surface of the product will be smooth and stable.
Everything that falls off is simply wonderful and, most importantly, it is glued invisibly with PVA glue.
Swelling or cracking of salt dough crafts occurs in three cases:
If the flour is chosen incorrectly. For greater strength, you can add it to the dough rye flour(color will be
warmer and there should be no cracking) (for example, a glass of regular glass of rye, 1 to 1),
50 gr. starch - also gives the dough elasticity and prevents it from cracking. You can also add PVA glue,
since it also gives plasticity and prevents the dough from rising.
If drying is not carried out correctly (see next section)
If cracking occurs after painting, this means that the product has not completely dried (the product
continues to dry and the air has to go somewhere) so the surface of the paint or varnish cracks.
Take your time to paint or varnish the product, so as not to regret it later and not to redo it.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION: HOW TO DRY SALT DOUGH?
It is best to air dry natural conditions, but it takes a long time (complete drying may take
a week or more - especially if the humidity during drying is high - since salt attracts moisture),
Therefore, you can dry it in the oven, following a few rules.
The oven should be at minimum temperature
It’s good if drying is done with the oven lid slightly open
Products must not be placed in hot oven immediately, heating should occur gradually. As well as
remove the product from the oven, it is better if it cools gradually instead of with the oven
It is ideal to dry in several stages: let it dry for an hour on one side, turn the craft over,
dries from the inside out. I also take breaks between drying, it dries in the oven for an hour - it dries on its own for a day -
then again for an hour and a half in the oven on the reverse side.
The drying time for 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. takes much longer to dry without dough
oil-containing additives.
To avoid cracking of the product, you can dry it in three to four stages, in the oven at
at the very minimum and always with the lid open for about an hour and a half, then an hour break
for two - three, or all night, the craft dries itself, and then turn the oven back on to low
with the lid open.
During natural and oven drying, the craft must be rotated at each stage of drying, i.e.
It dries with the front side for an hour, rests, at the next stage it is turned over and dries with the back side.
THUS, WE COVERED THE BASIC RECIPES AND METHODS OF MODELING SALT DOUGH.
I suggest everyone try to make these magnet cats. It's very easy to do. First applied
sketch of the kittens themselves on foil, molded, dried (about 5-6 days). Then I painted it with watercolors and gouache.
I opened it with varnish. I glued cardboard to the back and then magnets onto it.
Magnet cats (MK painted)
Larisa Ivanova
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These cute kittens will live on the refrigerators of their new owners next year)))
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The modeling is very simple, I won’t go into details. Many people are interested in the painting, here it is
and I'll stop...
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I use the most common watercolor paints.
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Take a kitten and start sculpting)))
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The kitten will be red...
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Leave the tummy, paws and part of the muzzle white
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Now add yellow color and dilute with plenty of water.
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Apply a new shade around the stomach and touch the chest a little
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We draw a circle around the “cheeks” and paint the bangs
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Now a little brown...
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We apply a damp brush with this shade over the bangs, paws, and chest. Paint the eyelids with a drier brush
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Don't forget about the sausage)))
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Now we take white gouache and draw the eyes, the stomach in the middle, mark the paws with strokes, the middle
"cheeks" and fur on the chest...
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Let's draw the pads)))
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Now stripes and nose
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Green eyes...
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Add a few more stripes and highlights on the sausage with white gouache. Black watercolor - pupil.
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I dip a toothpick in white gouache and apply highlights to the eyes and nose. That's all)))
I suggest everyone try to make these magnet cats. It's very easy to do. First, I applied a sketch of the kittens themselves onto foil, molded them, and dried them (about 5-6 days). Then I painted it with watercolors and gouache. I opened it with varnish. I glued cardboard to the back and then magnets onto it.
Happy viewing and good mood everyone!!!
On the eve of the New Year, each of us begins to stock up on gifts for loved ones! And today I want to suggest making small gifts for your dear people with your own hands - these are New Year magnets « Winter hut" We will make them from salt dough (can be replaced with self-hardening clay). I chose salted dough, because the ingredients for it are available to everyone, and you can make such products with children!
For work we will need:
- salty dough(the recipe I use will be below);
- stack, stationery knife;
- toothpicks, needles;
- a plasticine board or ceramic tile (where we will roll out the dough);
- acrylic paints (if there are metallic colors);
- gouache (black and ocher);
- brushes;
- felt;
- magnet;
- varnish (I used colorless Varnish XB-584);
- rhinestones (I have a diameter of 3 and 5 mm);
- glue (Moment, PVA);
- optional white glitter;
- sponge.
Salt dough recipe (I’ve made it many times already):
- 150 g water + 1 tbsp. l. Mix simple wallpaper glue and let the glue dissolve thoroughly;
- 200 g flour + 200 g fine salt + 2 tbsp. l. (with top) potato starch mix separately;
- combine everything + 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
For several magnets, the amount of salty ingredients can be divided in half.
It’s better to prepare the dough in advance (I make it the night before and put it in the refrigerator overnight, wrapped in 2 bags).
Important! When working with salt dough, always keep the bag closed, the dough dries quickly!
We will have two versions of magnet huts!
Magnet “Winter Hut” with two Christmas trees
1. Roll out the dough, cut out the blank for the huts according to the template (the edges can be trimmed with a brush and water). Let's outline where the logs, roof, and snow will be. We make a sausage from 4 mm dough, cut it into approximately equal parts, lubricate the workpiece with some water and begin to place our logs, flattening them a little. 
2. While our logs are not dry, we go over them with a needle, we get an imitation of wood. Make two more sausages, flattening them a little. Using a needle or toothpick, we make curves on one edge and transfer our blanks to the hut, having previously lubricated the places with water, then we make indentations on the rounded blanks (I did it with a dots, but you can also use a regular toothpick). We make a pipe over the roof, go through the dough with a needle, imitating bricks. Next, we roll the ball, flatten it, cut it in half, we only need one part (this will be the window above the roof), attach it to the hut, make indentations, and we get a window.
3. Make a thin sausage, smear it around the window with water, wrap it in the sausage - it turns into cashing the window, flatten it a little.
4. In the middle of the hut there will be a main window made of a rectangular piece of dough; we make indentations in it. We roll the sausage, divide it into four parts according to the size of the window - these will be the platbands. We flatten the workpieces and transfer them to the hut, not forgetting to lubricate the gluing areas with water.
5. Now you can sculpt the Christmas tree. We cut out three trapezoidal blanks of different sizes, round each blank, cut the bottom edge into three parts and round it with a toothpick (you get twigs). At the beginning we put down the most large workpiece and on the rise. We go along the edges of the branches with a needle.
6. We will get two Christmas trees, tall on one side and smaller on the other. We make indentations in the Christmas tree that are slightly larger than the rhinestones themselves, because as the salt dough dries, it becomes smaller. We make snow on the roof, in front of the hut, on the windows.
Magnet “Winter hut” with snowman and Christmas tree
Let's move on to the next version of the magnet. The first stages of modeling are the same as for the first hut.
1. Let's make the platbands at the roof a little differently, small curves at the edge and indentations in them using a toothpick. We roll the ball, make an oval, cut off a little at the bottom, we get a semicircular blank for the window. We attach in the middle of the hut and indentations. 
2. Take a strip of dough, place it over the window and flatten the edges a little with a knife or stack.
3. We do the same at the bottom of the window. Next, we make the shutters: we cut out two rectangles, cut them at an angle and attach them to the hut.
4. Let's make a snowman. We roll three balls of different sizes, flatten each ball and start attaching it to the hut from the largest one, roll four balls, these will be the arms and legs of the snowman :) We make a hat from a triangle of dough, a scarf from two stripes. The nose is a triangle-shaped carrot made of dough. The Christmas tree is molded in the same way as on the first hut. 
Our blanks for the magnets are ready, let them dry thoroughly (I leave them on the battery for 2 days). First, they are dried on foil, and when they are dry, I transfer them to cardboard, because... the foil does not allow air to pass through, and the workpiece does not dry out.
Our huts have already dried, now we cover them with black gouache (brown is also possible). When the gouache has dried, we begin to carefully wash it off, so the product turns out to be embossed. The blanks have dried out from the water. Let's start painting. We take brown acrylic paint and with a thin brush we go over the logs of the hut. Next, we cover the platbands: in the first hut we cover the platbands with gouache (ochre), in the second one - with blue acrylic, and the snowman’s outfit is also blue.
When the paint has dried, we paint the frames of the windows with white acrylic, and we tint the trim of one hut with white.
Then mix green color and a little brown, cover the Christmas trees with it 
We need to make “frozen” windows. We drop blue and white paint directly into the window, quickly mix it with a needle, and add a little more white around the edges. We additionally cover the ocher-painted frames with paint of a different color (I have acrylic metallic bronze; if I don’t have it, you can mix brown and yellow acrylic paint - you’ll get beige frames). Paint the snowman with white paint. Next, we take a sponge and begin to swab with white paint where we will have snow (I also went over the logs with a brush). We make the eyes and mouth of the snowman. We tint the snowman's hat and scarf with silver paint. 
First we coat one side of the magnet with varnish, when it has dried, we coat the other side (the varnish that I use gives a little yellowness to the white color, after drying the varnish the snow was again covered with white paint). We take felt, trace it, cut it out, this will be the back side of the hut.
