Salt dough crafts for a friend. Crafts from the test for the New Year

It is convenient to sculpt flat, slightly convex figures from the dough. This property of the test can be used by creating bas-reliefs from it - convex images on a plane.

Material and tools: a board sprinkled with flour, a rolling pin, a knife, a sharpened pencil, a glass of water, a thin brush, a rag or sponge, a little vegetable oil.

Dough: flour - 1 cup, salt - 1 cup, vegetable oil- a tablespoon, water - half a glass.

Mix all the ingredients and knead well on the board to get a soft homogeneous mass. Put the dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After that, you can sculpt from the dough. Put the remaining dough after sculpting in a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator until the next time.

The techniques for modeling from dough are the same as for modeling from plasticine.

colored dough

Part of the mass for modeling can be left unpainted (it has a light beige color), and part can be painted in different colors using gouache paints. If you sculpt from colored dough, you will not have to paint finished products. This is especially important if small children will be sculpting, for whom it is still difficult to accurately hit a certain place with a brush.

You will need unpainted salty dough and a set of gouache or acrylic paints. Paints must be in a pasty state. If they are dry, add some water to the jars and wait until the paint softens.

Take a piece of dough in your left hand, such that it fits freely in your fist. Make a dent in the middle of this piece. With the index finger of the right hand, scoop up a piece of paste from the jar and place it in this recess.

Close the edges of the dent so that the paint is inside.

Roll the dough ball up and down between your palms. Hands get a little dirty, but it doesn't matter - the paint is easily washed off with water. And so that the dough does not stick to your hands very much, moisten them with sunflower oil.

Having rolled out a long sausage, fold it in half and roll it again. Repeat this operation until the “marble” stains disappear and the color becomes uniform. If the dough becomes too soft after adding paint, add a little salt and flour to it.

Prepare a set of colored mass in this way. Leave part of the dough uncolored - it will play the role of white. Store the dough of each color in a separate plastic bag or in a yogurt jar with a tight-fitting lid.

Pieces of colored dough can be mixed, like paints, and achieve the shade you need. To do this, you just need to take two pieces of dough and knead them together until then. until the dough becomes homogeneous:

Blue + white = cyan;

White + red = pink;

Blue + pink = purple;

Blue + yellow = green;

Yellow + red = orange;

Green + red = brown;

Green + blue = emerald.

And don't forget to stock up on flesh-colored dough! In order to make such a dough, you need to add a little bit of yellow to light pink.

Excess colored dough that remains after sculpting can be mixed into one lump so that they do not dry out. The result will be an "incomprehensible", most likely gray-brown color. But he, too, can be useful for something.

From colored dough you can make pictures, toys

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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 interesting ideas salt dough modeling 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 items interesting shape and invoices.

With a tube we make a hole for threading a lace or ribbon.

Dry the products 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, essential oil can be added to such a product or simply food flavoring 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 number 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 to the dough essential oil 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"

Very easy and inexpensive way to decorate 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, 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. At proper storage, crafts from it can remain intact for many years. And that's just what we need 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!

All children love to sculpt - this is an indisputable fact. Even the most notorious little tomboys who cannot sit still for five minutes are attracted by modeling, and while the children “create” their masterpieces, parents have a little respite. On our site, materials for modeling have already been considered in detail, and I would like to dwell separately on salt dough. Its advantages are undeniable - it can be made at home, it is safe and non-toxic, and the child's crafts can be saved for many years.

Salt dough recipe for modeling and crafts manufacturing technology

Finding a salt dough recipe is not difficult. The Internet is literally full of various recipes and advice. Specially for the day of our readers, we decided to conduct a small experiment and try out several recipes for salt dough in practice and check which one will be the best for crafts with children. Parents should not take all the worries about preparing salt dough. Knead the dough with your child and start to "create".

The method of preparing salt dough for modeling according to the classic recipe

Ingredients:

200 g flour;
200 g of salt;
125 g of water;
1 tablespoon of sunflower oil to give the dough elasticity.

We measure the amount of products for the test with a measuring cup. We combine the ingredients. If the dough turned out to be watery, then you need to add a little more flour and salt, because this material for modeling should be dense.
Knead the dough with your hands until it stops sticking, and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
We take it out and start sculpting.

Method for making salt dough with wallpaper paste

Ingredients:

200 g flour (one glass);
200 g of salt (half a glass, since salt is heavier than flour);
125 g of water;
1 tablespoon of sunflower oil;
1 tablespoon wallpaper paste.

We use the same proportions and ingredients as in classic recipe, but for strength, add one tablespoon of wallpaper glue to the dough. Ready dough we send it to the cold for 30 minutes, then take it out and proceed to sculpting. In addition, the prepared dough can be packed in a bag and stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks, it will not lose its properties.

Method for preparing colored salt dough for modeling

Salt dough can be dyed before crafting using food coloring. It is better to use liquid dyes, they give a richer color than powder dyes and improve the quality of the dough.

In order for the white salty modeling dough to turn into colored, we divide it into several parts.
We put each part in a separate bag and add a few drops of food coloring, depending on the desired color. The more dye you add, the richer the color will be.
After all the parts are painted, we send them to the refrigerator. Half an hour, and the children can do modeling. This dough can also be used as homemade. It will surely bring great pleasure to the child. Colored dough, as well as colorless, can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks.

Salt dough coloring

Salt dough crafts can be painted immediately after drying, using either acrylic paints for arts and crafts, or gouache. You can cover the products with watercolors, but gouache and acrylic give children's crafts brighter and richer colors, they practically do not require water, unlike watercolors. Watercolor is a water-loving paint, and liquid can lead to deformation of an already dried craft.

FROM abalone crafts from salt dough

There are two ways to dry salt dough crafts - naturally and using the oven. Natural will take a few days, so for impatient babies it is better to use oven drying, keeping in mind a few rules:

You need to dry at the lowest temperature from 50 to 80 degrees.
During drying, you can open the oven a little, but at this time you need to take the children out of the kitchen so that they are not tempted to check their product. It is not safe.
Do not put crafts in hot oven. The oven should heat up with the product. And you need to take it out only after the oven has completely cooled down.
Drying is best done in several stages. First dry on one side, then turn over and dry on the other.
Drying time is directly related to the thickness of the product. Thinner products dry much faster than thick volumetric figures.

Salt dough craft ideas for kids under 2

Making crafts from dough contributes. But kids quickly lose interest in any activity, modeling from dough is no exception. No need to come up with complex crafts, otherwise you will have to do them yourself. The first crafts should be simple and should not take much time. The very first crafts of the baby are casts. For starters, you can invite the child to make animal prints.

Animal prints on salt dough

Roll out a small circle with a rolling pin.
We make prints of various animals on it: small figures are suitable for this.
We set the circle with the imprint on a baking sheet, and after all the crafts are ready, put it in the oven to dry.
After drying, paint the traces.

A child can simply play with the dough, leaving traces of various animals on it, or you can dry these prints. They will still come in handy for future games. So, for example, dinosaur prints can be hidden in a sensory box, and then, together with a child, make amazing excavations and discover fossilized footprints of prehistoric pangolins.

Casts of arms and legs

Any kid will love making casts of their arms and legs. It will also be a memorable gift for all parents, which are kept with the same trepidation as the tags from the maternity hospital.

Roll out a circle with a rolling pin (you can make a square or cut out any shape you want).
We offer the baby to make an imprint separately of his handle and separately of the leg.
We send the casts to a baking sheet and dry in the oven.
After drying, color with the child.

You can not stop there and make a memory print of all family members at once, including your favorite pets.

How to teach a child 2-4 years old to make crafts from salt dough: 2 master classes

From children of two to four years, too, should not be expected to show perseverance and patience. Therefore, crafts should be simple enough so that the child can make them on his own, only occasionally resorting to the help of adults.

At this age, the baby is fascinated by role-playing games, both the boy and the girl will be interested in playing in the store. To have something to fill the grocery basket, you can make a loaf, bagels, pizza, a chocolate bar and other food products from salt dough.

Craft "Baton"

We take a small piece of dough and form a loaf out of it.
We make cuts.
We send our loaf to the oven to dry.
After drying, paint the craft with acrylic paints.

Craft "Baranki"

Take a few small pieces of dough.
We make sausages out of them and twist them into bagels.
We send the bagels to dry in the oven.
After drying, the bagels are covered with paints and strung on a thread.
A bunch of lamb is ready.

Craft "Pizza"

We take a small piece of dough and form a round pizza base.
From small pieces we form small circles and with the help of a brush and water we attach them to the pizza base.
We send the pizza to dry in the oven.
After drying, paint.

The dough products are ready, you can take them to the "grocery store" and fill the buyer's basket with them, then cook "lunch" from them. - decoration for a flower pot

Roll out the dough about 3 mm thick.
On a sheet of paper, draw a contour drawing of a chicken.
Cut out paper chicken.
We put a paper chicken on the dough and cut out along the contour.
We circle all the details of the chicken with a toothpick, skewer or a regular pen so that the trace remains on the dough.
We remove the drawing from the test.
We send the chicken to dry in the oven.
After drying, paint.
We send the chicken to decorate the flower pot.

Craft "Cat Purr »

Salt dough crafts are an exciting creative process. The modeling material turns out to be inexpensive, and you can show your imagination twice: when you sculpt something and when you paint after ready product. My daughter loves both very much, and I myself, to be honest, am often very fond of the process. We like to sculpt small compositions, for example, from several animals, paint them and give them to grandparents and other relatives and friends. Making your own salt dough at home is easy.

It doesn't take much to make puff pastry animals!

To make the test itself, you need : salt, flour, water and a little vegetable oil.
To work with it you will need everything that we use when working with plasticine: a modeling board or a substrate, a rolling pin, stacks.

In addition, you will need foil, paints, brushes, water, colorless varnish, toothpicks and any decorative things to decorate and complement the image (ribbons, buttons, beads, feathers, eyes, etc.).

Making dough for modeling at home

My daughter eagerly participates not only in modeling and coloring, but also in dough kneading.
For cooking, take 2 cups flour and 1 cup salt. Salt should be finely ground, optimally - Extra, not iodized.

Mixing the Ingredients

We mix salt and flour and, adding water in small portions, knead a rather tight dough, similar in consistency to dumplings. A little less than a glass of water is required. You can add 1 tbsp for better elasticity. l. vegetable oil.

flour for dough

After kneading, put the dough in a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

kneading the dough

The finished dough does not stick to your hands, easily wrinkled, keeps its shape. It can be colored in the mass, that is, add paint directly to the dough and knead. It can successfully replace soft plasticine. We paint ready-made crafts.

Interesting ideas for modeling with a child

In addition to directly sculpting various figures, salt dough can be used to make paintings. For example, my daughter and I made a small picture on the theme "Pushkin's Tales".

Step 1

They came up with a drawing and painted a small board with blue gouache.

Step 1. Decorated the board and drew a picture

Step 2

The details of the drawing were molded from salt dough and glued to the plank with PVA glue.

Step 2. Sculpt dough parts and glue to a blue plank

Step 2: Adding Details

Step 3

The finished image was dried at room temperature for 3 days.

Step 3. Dry the painting for 3 days

Step 4

Painted and finished with clear lacquer.

Step 4. Coloring with paints

Step 4. Varnish

For little children, you can offer interesting option test work.

Roll out the dough into a layer , cut out shapes for cookies or plasticine figures, dry.
Recolor . Such crafts are within the power of my son at 2.5 years old.

You can make a garden of stones and other “values”: artistically place finds from a walk on a salt dough cake - pebbles, leaves, twigs.

How my daughter and I made crafts from dough

One of our recent crafts is Antarctica. Often we get ideas from modeling books from, but there are some differences in working with the test. For example, you can not sculpt separately parts of different colors, because the dough is painted in what color you need.

Also, when sculpting volumetric figures, foil is used as a frame, it does not allow the figure to “sink” while it is drying, and the drying process itself is accelerated.

Sculpt penguin

You will need 5 blanks-balls:

1 large - for the body;
2 small - for wings;
2 even less - for paws.

Roll up balls

Roll out dough balls

Place a piece of foil in the center of the large ball and shape it into a pear shape. We roll out the blanks of wings and legs into cone-shaped sausages and flatten them. We bend the workpiece of the torso to get a head with a beak.

We form the torso

We connect the wings and legs with the body, glue the eyes from small balls.
We put the penguin on an ice floe: rolled out a layer of dough and cut out a circle-hole with a glass.

We collect the penguin and put it on the layer

Dry at room temperature for about a week.

You can not put the figures on the battery, speed up the process with a hairdryer, this can lead to cracking.

Can be dried in the oven at a temperature of 50-150 degrees for several hours.

Sculpting a seal

We also prepare 5 blanks: the torso and paws. As a frame, we use a strip of foil folded several times.

We form balls of different sizes

We give the body the shape of an oblong cake and place the foil in the middle. We roll the foil into the dough sausage.

Roll out a large ball into a cake and put foil on it

Rolling the foil into the dough

We roll the blanks of flippers into cone-shaped sausages and flatten them. We apply a stack of stripes.

Making seal paws

We bend the body, as shown in the photo, and connect it with flippers.
From small balls we make a nose and eyes.

Collecting a seal

Can be dried.

As an additional decor, we blinded the fish.

Making a fish

We paint the dried products with gouache and watercolor and cover with transparent varnish (you can use acrylic art, or you can use ordinary wood varnish).

The origins of dough modeling go back far into the past. There is a legend that it was invented by Slavic chefs who were bored and had fun creating interesting, edible figures from dough. In addition, this material is one of the cheapest and available to everyone. Therefore, in our time, this type of creativity is popular, everyone has flour, water and salt in the house. So, some interesting do-it-yourself salt dough crafts, with photos and step-by-step instructions.

Salt dough crafts

If you decide to touch this art, and testoplasty is really such, you need to learn in detail about the material from which you will sculpt. For novice dough lovers, it is worth noting that the recipe is very simple.

Flour - one glass
Salt - half a cup
Water - 125 ml

It is worth remembering that salt is heavier than flour, so you need to take it half as much!

To sculpt thin relief figures, you need to add PVA glue, or starch, or wallpaper glue to the dough. To choose from one tablespoon, pre-mix wallpaper glue with water. To facilitate the kneading process, use a mixer, it will make it of high quality and simplify the work with your hands.
For modeling from colored dough, food coloring is used, if there are none, you can take ordinary paint. If you want a rich chocolate color, add a small amount of cocoa. Remember that when drying, the dough loses its color saturation. Therefore, it is better to shift the dye than not to report. Coating the finished dough crafts with varnish will make it brighter and more practical.

Advantages

It is one of the cheapest and environmentally friendly materials.
Does not stain hands (although this statement is relative)
It is easy to use, very flexible and allows you to perform parts of any complexity.

"Pig"

Consider the easiest way to sculpt.

To work you need:

Salty dough
tassel
Stack
Paints
toothpicks

How to do it

Roll the dough into a ball and give it the appearance of an oval, this will be the body of the pig.
Make a second ball (head) and use a toothpick to put it on the body.
Make a small heel for a piglet, a flattened ball with holes, you can make holes with the back of a pencil.
Making ears is also not difficult, moisten the triangles with water and attach carefully to the head.
Do the legs like this, roll up two sausages, make a small incision from one end, attach the legs to the body with the other end.
Our piglet will sit in a basin, for this, roll out a ball of dough and give it the appearance of a basin.
Seat the pig in a bowl and paint your craft with paints.
Let your masterpiece dry.

Master class on how to make a pig out of dough step by step video instruction

little secrets

Everyone in the house has a garlic press. It can be used at work by passing the dough through it to get long curls. They can be used in the form of hair, wool for your crafts. Having a tea sieve at home will turn out thinner vermicelli, for finer craft details.
A comb can also be used when sculpting, it will perfectly print a ribbed pattern on it.

"Candlestick"

Ingredients

puff pastry
eggs (for brushing)
prunes
chocolate

Cooking method

Roll out the dough on the table. The thickness should not exceed 0.5 cm. Using a glass, cut out circles.
In the middle of the finished circles place
stuffing. It can be prunes, dried apricots, jam, the main thing is that the filling is not liquid.
From each circle we form an asterisk (collecting up like a bag)
Cut the edges with pastry scissors. And we bend each strip, turning them to the center.
We form a flower and coat with an egg.
We bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.
We decorate our flowers. You can put some jam in the middle.
We take a flat dish and with the help of melted chocolate we draw a stem and leaves for our delicious crafts. We distribute the finished flowers in the right places on the plate and our unusual flower is ready.

"Delicious squirrel"

To prepare such a craft, you need to take:

500 g flour
40 g yeast
100 g butter
100 g granulated sugar
250 ml water (milk)
1 yolk
60 pcs. nuts almonds shelled
cardboard template

Cooking method

Dissolve the yeast in warm water and add sugar and mix.
Knead the dough. Mix flour with butter, add the finished yeast mixture to it. Put in a warm place.
After 45 minutes, divide the dough into lumps and roll each one 1 cm thick.
On the dough you need to put ready-made templates with the image of a squirrel and with the help sharp knife cut out the figure along the contour.
Beat the yolk, and coat the squirrel with a brush.
Decorate the figurine with almonds spreading it on the tail. We make eyes with raisins.
We spread the muffin on a baking sheet, and bake at a temperature of 190 degrees for about half an hour.