How to make simple salt dough. Adding extra ingredients

All children, from young to old, love to sculpt various crafts with their own hands. For this purpose, you can use the traditional one, or you can replace it with an environmentally friendly plastic mass prepared on your own. Modeling from dough is suitable for the smallest, because they try everything on the tooth, and it is too early to give purchased plasticine into their hands.

Children's modeling dough is completely harmless in contact with the baby's delicate skin and even if it gets into the mouth. After all, this recipe includes flour, water and salt - completely harmless products. The concentration of sodium chloride is so high that after tasting a piece, the child will immediately lose food interest and will use the plastic mass for its intended purpose.

Modeling from dough is very useful for the development of children. It is softer and more plastic than plasticine, and therefore the tactile sensations are also different. When working with a plastic mass, it is excellent, which in turn has a positive effect on the development of speech skills and more coordinated brain function.

How to make dough for modeling?

Making a homemade mass is not at all difficult. The most important thing is to keep the right proportions. Before you prepare the dough for modeling, for children you need to decide what recipe to make it. After all, there are several different ways.

Recipe 1

  1. Flour - two parts.
  2. Salt is one part.
  3. Water - ¾ cup.

Dissolve salt in cold water, then add flour and knead a cool, elastic dough. When it is sticky - add a little flour, if it is too tight and crumbles - you should add liquid.

Recipe 2

  1. Salt - 1 cup.
  2. Flour - 2 cups.
  3. Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon, or 50 grams of starch.
  4. Water - enough to make a soft, but elastic dough.

Someone prefers oil, someone starch, but the meaning of their use is identical - these components give elasticity. The liquid must be added in small portions gradually.

Recipe 3

  1. Flour - one glass.
  2. Salt - half a tablespoon.
  3. Citric acid - two teaspoons.
  4. Water - half a glass or more.
  5. Vegetable oil - one tablespoon.
  6. Dyes.

The recipe for this modeling test is for those who want to get bright figures. It is desirable to use food dyes, those that are used in the confectionery industry. An even safer method is to add natural ingredients like saffron, cocoa, instant coffee, brilliant green, paprika.

Now you know how to make play dough - it's not that hard! Do not forget that for this you need to take only Extra salt, and not stone, even sifted. From it, the dough is not at all of the same quality and has a gray tint.

The great advantage of homemade plasticine is that it can be stored for a very long time in the refrigerator, tightly wrapped in cellophane. Before starting work, the modeling dough must be softened at room temperature for about half an hour. In the process of creativity, do not forget that the mass dries quickly and use small pieces, and keep the rest in a bag.

Salt dough is a good replacement for the well-known plasticine. It is much more pleasant to work with it, because it is softer, does not stick to hands and allows you to save your masterpiece for many years. Its advantages include safety and the possibility of cooking at home. How to make salt dough at home is the first question that arises when you get acquainted with this type of needlework. And for good reason, because self-prepared salt dough (in no case do not confuse it with puff pastry) will cost an order of magnitude cheaper than purchased.

Salt dough is a good replacement for the well-known plasticine

To prepare the dough, simple ingredients such as salt, water and flour are used. In some recipes, in addition to the listed products, PVA glue, glycerin, and potato starch are also present.

Note: not every salt is suitable for making dough. When choosing, it is best to give preference to the brand "Extra". It is small and dissolves well without forming lumps.

Let's move on to the recipes.

Salt dough made from salt and flour: 2 cooking methods

Method 1.

Ingredients:

  • flour - 1.5 tbsp.;
  • salt - 1 tbsp.;
  • water - 125 ml.

Pour water into a clean, dry bowl, then add salt and mix until it is completely or partially dissolved. Then add flour and knead the dough.

Dough is easy to make

Method 2.

  • a glass of flour;
  • a glass of salt;
  • 125 ml of water.

Mix flour with salt, then in several steps add all the water and knead the dough. This recipe is great for making crafts that do not have small parts.

How to make salt dough with PVA glue

In this recipe, PVA glue is added to the standard ingredients. The composition of such a test would be as follows:

  • 1 st. finely ground salts (preferably "Extra");
  • 2 tbsp. flour;
  • 1 st. water;
  • 1-2 tbsp. spoons of PVA glue.

Preparation: First mix dry ingredients. Then add PVA glue to the water prepared for the test and mix well. Combine both mixtures and knead the dough.

Salt dough recipe with glycerin

In order to give their crafts shine, after manufacturing and drying, many craftsmen varnish them. However, this is not at all a mandatory measure, since the desired result can also be achieved by adding glycerin to the dough. You can buy it at any pharmacy.

Ingredients:

  • 300g flour;
  • 200g salt;
  • 4 tbsp. l. glycerin;
  • 2 tbsp. l. dry wallpaper paste;
  • 125 ml of water.

The dough will be nice

Cooking:

First, mix the flour and salt. Then dilute the wallpaper paste in water and add glycerin to it. Combine both mixtures and knead a stiff dough.

Salt dough without flour and salt

Ingredients:

  • a glass of starch;
  • 2 cups of soda;
  • 1/2 glass of water.

To prepare this dough, it is best to take a saucepan, since it starts on fire. Pour starch and soda into the prepared container. Gradually stirring the mixture, pour water into it. Then put the container on the stove with a small fire and cook until the mixture rolls into a ball. Remove the dough from the heat, transfer to a floured board and knead well.

Important: Properly prepared dough should be homogeneous and not sticky. To obtain this effect, you need to observe the proportions and knead it well. Since the dough dries quickly, it must be stored in a plastic bag. The shelf life in the refrigerator varies from a couple of weeks to several months (depending on the composition).

How to make salt dough: a simple recipe (video)

How to make salt dough crafts at home: lessons for beginners

For the manufacture of crafts, you do not need any special tools. It is quite possible to do with what is available at home. Below are some examples of simple crafts that even beginners can handle.

beads

  1. Tear off a small piece from the dough, divide it into smaller ones of the same size.
  2. Roll them into balls.
  3. Pass a toothpick into each ball and leave it like this for a few days to dry. For uniform drying, the balls are recommended to be turned over from time to time.
  4. After the balls have dried, the toothpicks must be carefully removed. From the resulting beads, you can collect beads by threading a cord or ribbon through them. Beads can also be painted with paints and varnished.

For the manufacture of crafts do not require any special tools

Puzzles

  1. Draw or download from the Internet and print a figure of some animal, car, flower, and so on.
  2. Transfer the drawing to cardboard and cut along the contour. So you get a stencil.
  3. Roll out the dough into a layer, attach a stencil to it and cut out the shape.
  4. Leave overnight to dry. In the morning, using a sharp knife, divide the figure into several parts and leave them to dry completely.
  5. That's it, the puzzle is ready. It remains only to color it to your liking.

roses

  1. Form a cone from a small piece of dough. This will be the center of the flower.
  2. Rose petals are made from small balls, slightly narrowed down. The balls are rolled into flat oval cakes, resembling a flower petal in shape, and glued to the base with PVA glue.
  3. The first two petals are glued opposite each other. They form a bud. The rest of the petals are glued in a circle.
  4. As you make the flower, you need to leave it to dry. This will avoid its deformation.
  5. The last petals are glued only from below. The top edges are slightly bent back, and the sides are pressed against the base.
  6. After drying, the rose can be painted in your favorite color.

A rose can be made very beautiful

In addition to crafts for the soul, practical items used in the household can also be made from salt dough.

casket

Manufacturing process step by step:

  1. Take an unnecessary jar of chips, mayonnaise, sour cream, and so on. Cut it to the height you need.
  2. Roll out the dough into a thin layer. Lubricate the prepared base from the outside with PVA glue. Cover it with dough so that there is not a single air bubble between them. Bend the upper edges into the mold, remove the excess.
  3. Using handy materials (beads, buttons, lace, and so on), process the outside of the box. Inside, you can glue lace or other material with non-shrinking edges.
  4. The base is ready, it remains to make a cover for it. To do this, you need the most ordinary foil. Lay it on the table, put the base of the box upside down on top of it. Next, use a pen or pencil to outline the edges.
  5. Set the base aside and start sculpting the lid. Form a small ball from the dough, put it in foil with the marked edges of the lid and roll it to the desired size. From above, the lid can be decorated with a flower, a berry, and so on, at your discretion.
  6. The base can either be left to dry in the fresh air or dried in the microwave. It all depends on what form was used inside the box.
  7. After drying, the box can be decorated as you wish.

How to color dough crafts?

You can color salty dough both during kneading, using food coloring or natural juices (beets, carrots, cocoa, turmeric, and so on), and after making crafts. For this, acrylic paints, gouache or a marker are used.

Salt dough can be colored while kneading

It is worth noting that at the moment of coloring the color may seem very saturated, and after drying it will fade slightly. Lacquer (acrylic, parquet, for wood) will help to return it.

How to dry finished products?

Salt dough drying plays an important role. Often it is she who can ruin the finished work. The most optimal is free drying in the open air. However, sometimes it takes quite a long time. You can significantly reduce it with the help of an oven, but there are a few simple rules here:

  • products are placed in a cold oven;
  • the minimum temperature is selected;
  • the oven door must not be closed all the way;
  • products are not removed immediately after turning off the oven, but gradually cool down with it;
  • after a short break, the product is turned over and dried at the same temperature on the reverse side.

Salt dough: how to make an analogue (video)

Dough modeling is a simple and low-cost type of needlework, suitable for both adults and children. With its help, children develop hand motor skills, imagination, aspiration and perseverance, while adults can diversify the interior of the house and enjoy work.

Salt dough is a unique material for creativity. It has become so popular that it sometimes replaces clay and plaster for adult sculpture lovers. This is a more malleable material, which allows young children to sculpt from it. It is non-toxic, the process of creating dough figures is safe even for allergy sufferers. How to cook it, what can be molded from it and how to save it - later in the article.

The basis of this material is flour, water and salt. Such a dough successfully replaces dirty and toxic plasticine. Dried figurines can be brightly and cheerfully painted. Good storage conditions and high-quality coatings of products will keep the fruits of fantasy for many years.

The benefits of salt dough modeling for children

Modeling is a plastic art. The process of creating new forms and images allows children to express their mood, emotions, feelings and attitude towards themselves and the world as a whole. Figurative thinking, imagination and fantasy become richer. Working with fingers with pliable material develops fine motor skills, massage of nerve endings on the hands allows you to relax.

The creative visual process develops the artistic abilities of the child, teaches the embodiment of his ideas and contributes to the formation of character.

Creating three-dimensional figures improves spatial thinking. The process teaches you to imagine a three-dimensional image of the final result, achieve it and adjust as you create the figure. Hard work contributes to the development of perseverance, the duration of the process teaches you to plan your affairs during the day. Modeling with adults contributes to lively communication. A fun creative process will allow you to spend time with benefit and save the results for a long time in the form of original crafts and souvenirs.

Test Features

The soft mass does not stick to the fingers, has no irritating odors and belongs to hypoallergenic mixtures. The dirt that has arisen on clothes and objects during the creative process is easily washed off and does not leave stains. Despite the edible ingredients, salt dough should not be eaten.

This material consists of improvised ingredients, is affordable, which allows you to do plenty of modeling with children of preschool and school age. It is easy to sculpt various shapes from it, as the material is very malleable, which allows even weak children's fingers to cope with the lesson.

The main secret of the safety of products is the presence of a large amount of salt in the workpiece. It acts as a natural preservative and, after drying, keeps the products in their original form for a long time.

Material preparation

The process of creating mass is quite simple, any housewife who has ever dealt with baking will cope with it. To prepare a simple salted workpiece, you will need:

  1. Mixing bowl, any pot will do.
  2. White wheat flour, in this case pancake flour will not work, because it makes the dough too sticky.
  3. Very cold water.
  4. Fine salt from the "Extra" class. Thanks to the crushed fraction, such salt will quickly dissolve in water. Industrial purification of such salt will avoid the presence of ugly impurities in the dough.
    These ingredients are basic and are used in most known recipes.

Dough tools and ingredients

Classic recipe

This is the easiest and, accordingly, the most popular recipe for making salt dough.

Ingredients:

  • 300 gr flour;
  • 300 gr of salt;
  • 200 ml of water.

Cooking:

  1. Pour salt into a bowl, pour almost all the water. It is better to leave a little water for now, as the flour takes a different amount of liquid each time, depending on its moisture content.
  2. Dissolve the salt completely, fine salt will dissolve quickly.
  3. Gradually add the sifted flour and stir until a lump forms.
  4. Knead the workpiece on the table, adding water if necessary if the lump crumbles, or pouring flour if the mass is sticky. Too long kneading should not be.
  5. Wrap the resulting product in polyethylene and place in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 hours.

The water consumption in each case may be different, since the consistency of the dough largely depends on the moisture content of the flour.


Step by step creation of a lamb

If the volume of the resulting workpiece is larger than required, then the remains are very well preserved in the refrigerator in polyethylene. Salt does not allow the dough to deteriorate for a whole month.

How to make dough in 5 minutes

The standard recipe is good and easy to follow, but it does not allow you to start creating crafts immediately. There is a quick recipe that will allow you to immediately create a blank for modeling. However, the list of components for this option will be somewhat wider.

Ingredients:

  • 1 st. flour;
  • 1 st. water;
  • 2 tsp soda;
  • third of Art. salt;
  • 1 tsp vegetable oil, you can use food coloring.

Cooking:

  1. Mix flour, salt and soda in a saucepan.
  2. Pour in all the water and oil.
  3. Cook the mixture for a while over low heat, stirring all the time, until it starts to stick to the spoon.
  4. Stir in the dye.
  5. When all the ingredients are involved, the mixture should be cooled.
  6. When cool, knead the mass thoroughly by hand.

Step by step making a rose

The unused leftover quick salt dough is wonderfully stored in polyethylene in the refrigerator for a long time. To revive the dried workpiece, you just need to re-knead it with water.

Recipe without starch with glycerin

Glycerin is the basic component of all animal and vegetable fats with a sweetish taste. If you add it to the dough, the products will acquire a beautiful sheen, as if they were varnished. This substance is sold in pharmacies.

The recipe also contains cream of tartar, which acts as an additional shape stabilizer and gives the material plasticity.

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp. boiling water;
  • 400 gr flour;
  • ½ tsp glycerin;
  • 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
  • 2 tbsp. l. tartar;
  • 100 gr of salt;
  • food coloring.

Hedgehog figurines

Cooking:

  1. Mix all the bulk ingredients (flour, stone, salt), add oil - you get the base mixture.
  2. Boil water in the second container, pour in the base mixture, put glycerin and dye.
  3. Stirring, boil the mass over low heat, until the composition is homogeneous.
  4. After cooling, knead by hand, adding flour, if necessary.

Brilliant figures from such a test are suitable as a present for friends and acquaintances.

Dough for modeling without flour

This is an original recipe that uses potato starch instead of wheat flour. Although, quite a bit of flour is still needed when kneading.

Ingredients:

  • 1 st. starch;
  • 2 tbsp. baking soda;
  • ½ cup of water;
  • dye.

craft ideas

Cooking:

  1. Mix starch and soda in a saucepan.
  2. Pour water into the mixture in a stream, stirring all the time.
  3. Cook over low heat until a ball forms.
  4. Cool and knead, pouring a little flour on the table.

Crafts from starch dough will come out no less successful than from flour.

Salt dough with PVA glue

For the strength of the figures in the process of preparing the mass, you can add paper glue (PVA).

Ingredients:

  • 1 st. salt;
  • 1 st. flour;
  • 100–150 ml of water;
  • 1 st. l. PVA glue.

Cooking:

  1. Mix flour and salt in one bowl.
  2. In another saucepan, dissolve the glue in water.
  3. Pour the dissolved glue into the bulk mass in small portions and gradually knead the dough.

As with other "cold" salt doughs, flour can take up varying amounts of water. Therefore, the liquid should be poured slowly. If the workpiece sticks to the fingers, they can be lightly greased with sunflower oil.

How can products be dried?

In addition to the process of sculpting figurines from salt mass, drying the dough is also an important point. You can perform this operation in the following ways:


What can be done with salt dough

Salt dough is a versatile craft material. Soft and pliable, it allows you to sculpt a variety of shapes and images from yourself. The following describes a few simple products from this material.


Salt dough crafts

beads

Decoration for girls is very easy to make from a small piece of dough. First you need to roll a lot of identical balls, preferably even. Until the blanks are dry, carefully put them on toothpicks and leave to dry at room temperature for a couple of days. During this time, you can turn the future beads over a couple of times. When the balls are dry, remove the toothpicks and string the beads onto the thread. To make the decoration multi-colored, it can be decorated with markers.


Salt dough beads

Christmas toys

To make toys, you will need cardboard figures in the form of animals or flowers. The dough is rolled out, figures are cut out of it using stencils with a sharp blade. In each future toy, a hole is squeezed out with a juice tube, through which the product can be hung on a Christmas tree. Dried crafts can be painted and hung on colored ribbons.


New Year decoration

A few words about dyes and varnishing

Food coloring in a wide range of colors can be purchased at the store. But if you wish, you can give a natural color to the craft using vegetable juices. Carrot juice will give an orange color, beetroot will paint the figure in dark pink. It will be even easier to paint an already dried product with markers or water-soluble paints.


Dyes

To add shine and additional strength to the product, water-based varnishes are used. It will be more convenient to use aerosols. Often spray varnishes are sold with a filler of multi-colored sparkles, which will give the products an elegant look.

Modeling dough with salt is a very exciting activity that allows you to realize your creative potential, both for children and adults. Handwork helps to relax and go headlong into the process of creating new images. Crafts painted with paints will bring comfort and good memories of the fun creative process to the house for a long time.


A very interesting type of needlework is bioceramics, or otherwise salty dough.
There are many recipes for salt dough.

Recipe 1.

For simple figurines:

200 g flour, 200 g salt 125 ml water.

Recipe 2.

Delicate salty dough for filigree processing (small parts and products up to 300-400 g):

200 g flour, 200 g salt, 100 g potato starch, 150 ml water.

Recipe 3.

Hard salt dough for rough figures:

200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water

Recipe 4.

Classic recipe:

1) 150 g of water + 1 tbsp. mix simple wallpaper glue, let the glue dissolve well;

2) 200 g flour + 200 g fine salt + 2 tbsp (with top) potato starch mixed separately;

3) combine everything + 2 tbsp. rast. oils.

Recipe 5.

Also classic.

Pour 1 cup of fine salt and 1 cup of flour into a bowl, mix. Then pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and half a glass of water, mix with a spoon and knead with your hands until smooth in the same way as regular dough. Water can be replaced with starch jelly, then the mass will be much more plastic. Kissel is done like this: dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Heat 1 cup of water in a small saucepan until boiling. Pour the starch solution into the boiling water, stirring. When the contents of the pan thicken and become transparent, turn off the heat. Let the jelly cool and pour it into the flour and salt mixture instead of water.

Recipe 6.

200 g wheat flour
100 g salt
2 teaspoons cream
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
300 ml. water
Mix flour, salt, cream and butter in a saucepan. Pour in water and mix thoroughly, avoiding lumps.
Place the saucepan over low heat and stir constantly. At first, the dough will be liquid, then it will immediately begin to thicken. Continue stirring until completely thickened.
Remove the dough from the heat and with a wooden spoon, transfer it to a smooth surface.
Let the dough cool. Knead the dough until it is soft and moldable and holds its shape well.

Recipe 7.

For large models (like plates or ceramic tiles):

200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water, 2 tablespoons wallpaper paste

Recipe 8.

For particularly durable products.

THE BEST RECIPE!!! There will be no problems with the product at all! This is the recipe of the master from the Arbat (unfortunately I don’t know the details).

Instead of water and glue, add bustilat (it is liquid).
1 cup fine salt, 1 cup flour - mix. Add bustilat until the dough is kneaded! No water and no flour added during the kneading process!

With the use of bustilat, toys do not get damp, do not deform during firing, do not break when falling - they become stone! Dry on a very low heat in a semi-open oven.

I took "Bustilat-3", it is even thicker than sour cream, like pudding, so it is difficult to knead the dough, but the result is just wonderful!!! It cannot be compared with anything - neither with wallpaper glue, nor with PVA, etc. It costs 25 UAH. - 1.3 kg in a plastic jar.

Since I tried this recipe, I have not used any others!

Recipe 9.

Dough for air drying, not in the oven:

200 g flour, 200 g salt, 2 tablespoons wallpaper paste, 125 ml water.

Recipe 10.

Air-drying or oven-drying dough that makes waterproof, unbreakable products:

1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup vinyl glue, 1 tablespoon melted Vaseline, 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Mix everything in a Teflon bowl over low heat and stir. As evenly mixed, cool slightly and you can sculpt. Dry in the oven at a temperature of 50-60 degrees with the door ajar, if on gas. If an electric oven, then 75 degrees, the door can not be opened. Not in the microwave! It is better to put silver foil on the pallet, because the black surface gives off heat more strongly and the figure may crack. The slower it dries, the safer it will not crack. In the end, you can give 200 degrees, then the protruding parts will be baked and brown, this effect is aesthetic. If you do not have the opportunity to burn your product in the oven, please be patient. On the battery or in the sun, products (especially large ones) will dry out no earlier than in a week. After firing or drying, dough products can be painted and varnished. For coloring, you can take acrylic paints, but it is best to use artistic gouache, in which a little PVA glue is added. After drying, this mixture is slightly shiny and does not stain hands. For lacquering, use acrylic lacquer. It is water soluble, non-toxic and dries in 6-8 hours. You can also add dye to the dough itself when it is cooked, cocoa, for example, or turmeric.

Salt will not completely dissolve in water, its grains will be felt in the dough and shine in the product. Therefore, do not try to dissolve the salt, mix it with flour, and then knead the dough by adding water or bustilat. Any salt is taken, although more often - coarse grinding.

If the dough is too soft, then proceed as follows: mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt at the bottom of the bowl. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then knead it. Do this until the dough becomes more dense. Put the resulting mass in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After that, you can sculpt from the dough. If after modeling you still have dough left, then store it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag.

Drying

On open air drying time depends on the thickness and volume of work and can be up to several weeks. Outdoor drying is best done at room temperature. Remember: the thicker the product, the more time it will take. It is recommended to turn the product over to dry evenly, but if it has a convex volumetric ornament, then this is not possible. To dry the bottom at the same time as the top, dry the product on a metal mesh.

In the oven (gas or electric stove).

Dry the craft first in the open air (2-3 days), then in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees, gradually raising the temperature, but not higher than 150 degrees. At too high a temperature, the product may swell, sometimes even cracks appear. Swollen crafts cannot be fixed, and cracks are easy to cover up. To do this, dilute a little PVA glue, mix well and apply this mass to the crack, then rub this mixture.
To be honest, I can’t dry products in the oven of my gas stove without deformation (((I dry in the air and use this excellent device http://www.site/users/yakusha/post226410282

Drying time in the electric stove oven:

1 hour - at 50 degrees,
1-2 hours at 75 degrees,
1 hour - at 100 - 125 degrees,
0.5 hours - at 150 degrees.

Advice. Cover a baking sheet with food foil, put salted dough figures on it and place in the oven to dry. To check whether the figures have dried out well, you need to tap them with your finger. If the sound is muffled, then you still need to dry it, and if it is sonorous, then it means that the dough has dried out. Uniformly dried products are monophonic without "raw" spots.

On the heating battery.

This method is convenient to use in winter, when the central heating radiators are well heated. Put the craft on foil or cloth and leave it on the battery until it dries completely.

To keep the crafts well, after they are dried and painted, cover them with a transparent liquid varnish. This will reliably protect them from moisture. If you don't like mirror shine, then use a matte varnish.

Salt dough is a unique material for creativity. It has become so popular that it sometimes replaces clay and plaster for adult sculpture lovers. This is a more malleable material, which allows young children to sculpt from it. It is non-toxic, the process of creating dough figures is safe even for allergy sufferers. How to cook it, what can be molded from it and how to save it - later in the article.

The basis of this material is flour, water and salt. Such a dough successfully replaces dirty and toxic plasticine. Dried figurines can be brightly and cheerfully painted. Good storage conditions and high-quality coatings of products will keep the fruits of fantasy for many years.

The benefits of salt dough modeling for children

Modeling is a plastic art. The process of creating new forms and images allows children to express their mood, emotions, feelings and attitude towards themselves and the world as a whole. Figurative thinking, imagination and fantasy become richer. Working with fingers with pliable material develops fine motor skills, massage of nerve endings on the hands allows you to relax.

The creative visual process develops the artistic abilities of the child, teaches the embodiment of his ideas and contributes to the formation of character.

Creating three-dimensional figures improves spatial thinking. The process teaches you to imagine a three-dimensional image of the final result, achieve it and adjust as you create the figure. Hard work contributes to the development of perseverance, the duration of the process teaches you to plan your affairs during the day. Modeling with adults contributes to lively communication. A fun creative process will allow you to spend time with benefit and save the results for a long time in the form of original crafts and souvenirs.

Test Features

The soft mass does not stick to the fingers, has no irritating odors and belongs to hypoallergenic mixtures. The dirt that has arisen on clothes and objects during the creative process is easily washed off and does not leave stains. Despite the edible ingredients, salt dough should not be eaten.

This material consists of improvised ingredients, is affordable, which allows you to do plenty of modeling with children of preschool and school age. It is easy to sculpt various shapes from it, as the material is very malleable, which allows even weak children's fingers to cope with the lesson.

The main secret of the safety of products is the presence of a large amount of salt in the workpiece. It acts as a natural preservative and, after drying, keeps the products in their original form for a long time.

Material preparation

The process of creating mass is quite simple, any housewife who has ever dealt with baking will cope with it. To prepare a simple salted workpiece, you will need:

  1. Mixing bowl, any pot will do.
  2. White wheat flour, in this case pancake flour will not work, because it makes the dough too sticky.
  3. Very cold water.
  4. Fine salt from the "Extra" class. Thanks to the crushed fraction, such salt will quickly dissolve in water. Industrial purification of such salt will avoid the presence of ugly impurities in the dough.
    These ingredients are basic and are used in most known recipes.

Dough tools and ingredients

Classic recipe

This is the easiest and, accordingly, the most popular recipe for making salt dough.

Ingredients:

  • 300 gr flour;
  • 300 gr of salt;
  • 200 ml of water.

Cooking:

  1. Pour salt into a bowl, pour almost all the water. It is better to leave a little water for now, as the flour takes a different amount of liquid each time, depending on its moisture content.
  2. Dissolve the salt completely, fine salt will dissolve quickly.
  3. Gradually add the sifted flour and stir until a lump forms.
  4. Knead the workpiece on the table, adding water if necessary if the lump crumbles, or pouring flour if the mass is sticky. Too long kneading should not be.
  5. Wrap the resulting product in polyethylene and place in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 hours.

The water consumption in each case may be different, since the consistency of the dough largely depends on the moisture content of the flour.


Step by step creation of a lamb

If the volume of the resulting workpiece is larger than required, then the remains are very well preserved in the refrigerator in polyethylene. Salt does not allow the dough to deteriorate for a whole month.

How to make dough in 5 minutes

The standard recipe is good and easy to follow, but it does not allow you to start creating crafts immediately. There is a quick recipe that will allow you to immediately create a blank for modeling. However, the list of components for this option will be somewhat wider.

Ingredients:

  • 1 st. flour;
  • 1 st. water;
  • 2 tsp soda;
  • third of Art. salt;
  • 1 tsp vegetable oil, you can use food coloring.

Cooking:

  1. Mix flour, salt and soda in a saucepan.
  2. Pour in all the water and oil.
  3. Cook the mixture for a while over low heat, stirring all the time, until it starts to stick to the spoon.
  4. Stir in the dye.
  5. When all the ingredients are involved, the mixture should be cooled.
  6. When cool, knead the mass thoroughly by hand.

Step by step making a rose

The unused leftover quick salt dough is wonderfully stored in polyethylene in the refrigerator for a long time. To revive the dried workpiece, you just need to re-knead it with water.

Recipe without starch with glycerin

Glycerin is the basic component of all animal and vegetable fats with a sweetish taste. If you add it to the dough, the products will acquire a beautiful sheen, as if they were varnished. This substance is sold in pharmacies.

The recipe also contains cream of tartar, which acts as an additional shape stabilizer and gives the material plasticity.

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp. boiling water;
  • 400 gr flour;
  • ½ tsp glycerin;
  • 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
  • 2 tbsp. l. tartar;
  • 100 gr of salt;
  • food coloring.

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Cooking:

  1. Mix all the bulk ingredients (flour, stone, salt), add oil - you get the base mixture.
  2. Boil water in the second container, pour in the base mixture, put glycerin and dye.
  3. Stirring, boil the mass over low heat, until the composition is homogeneous.
  4. After cooling, knead by hand, adding flour, if necessary.

Brilliant figures from such a test are suitable as a present for friends and acquaintances.

Dough for modeling without flour

This is an original recipe that uses potato starch instead of wheat flour. Although, quite a bit of flour is still needed when kneading.

Ingredients:

  • 1 st. starch;
  • 2 tbsp. baking soda;
  • ½ cup of water;
  • dye.

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Cooking:

  1. Mix starch and soda in a saucepan.
  2. Pour water into the mixture in a stream, stirring all the time.
  3. Cook over low heat until a ball forms.
  4. Cool and knead, pouring a little flour on the table.

Crafts from starch dough will come out no less successful than from flour.

Salt dough with PVA glue

For the strength of the figures in the process of preparing the mass, you can add paper glue (PVA).

Ingredients:

  • 1 st. salt;
  • 1 st. flour;
  • 100–150 ml of water;
  • 1 st. l. PVA glue.

Cooking:

  1. Mix flour and salt in one bowl.
  2. In another saucepan, dissolve the glue in water.
  3. Pour the dissolved glue into the bulk mass in small portions and gradually knead the dough.

As with other "cold" salt doughs, flour can take up varying amounts of water. Therefore, the liquid should be poured slowly. If the workpiece sticks to the fingers, they can be lightly greased with sunflower oil.

How can products be dried?

In addition to the process of sculpting figurines from salt mass, drying the dough is also an important point. You can perform this operation in the following ways:


What can be done with salt dough

Salt dough is a versatile craft material. Soft and pliable, it allows you to sculpt a variety of shapes and images from yourself. The following describes a few simple products from this material.


Salt dough crafts

beads

Decoration for girls is very easy to make from a small piece of dough. First you need to roll a lot of identical balls, preferably even. Until the blanks are dry, carefully put them on toothpicks and leave to dry at room temperature for a couple of days. During this time, you can turn the future beads over a couple of times. When the balls are dry, remove the toothpicks and string the beads onto the thread. To make the decoration multi-colored, it can be decorated with markers.


Salt dough beads

Christmas toys

To make toys, you will need cardboard figures in the form of animals or flowers. The dough is rolled out, figures are cut out of it using stencils with a sharp blade. In each future toy, a hole is squeezed out with a juice tube, through which the product can be hung on a Christmas tree. Dried crafts can be painted and hung on colored ribbons.


New Year decoration

A few words about dyes and varnishing

Food coloring in a wide range of colors can be purchased at the store. But if you wish, you can give a natural color to the craft using vegetable juices. Carrot juice will give an orange color, beetroot will paint the figure in dark pink. It will be even easier to paint an already dried product with markers or water-soluble paints.


Dyes

To add shine and additional strength to the product, water-based varnishes are used. It will be more convenient to use aerosols. Often spray varnishes are sold with a filler of multi-colored sparkles, which will give the products an elegant look.

Modeling dough with salt is a very exciting activity that allows you to realize your creative potential, both for children and adults. Handwork helps to relax and go headlong into the process of creating new images. Crafts painted with paints will bring comfort and good memories of the fun creative process to the house for a long time.