How to make salt dough from coarse salt. Salt dough figurines: how to make dough and mold a figurine? Cute hedgehog

It is difficult to overestimate the benefits and advantages of salt dough in the arsenal of an enthusiastic mother. First of all, it is its environmental friendliness. The dough consists of natural ingredients, so accidentally getting into the baby's mouth will not cause unnecessary worries for the mother.

The ease of manufacture and the availability of ingredients make salt dough versatile with the child and the development of fine motor skills. And what is important - the dough turns out to be quite a lot, and there is no need to divide it into a small piece (if you are sculpting together), as is the case with plasticine from a pack.

Dough recipe and dyes

There are many different recipes for salt dough. Basically they are divided into two types:

With heat treatment;
Without heat treatment.

1 st. flour;
0.5 st. fine salt "Extra";
1 tbsp starch;
0.5 st. cold water (from the refrigerator).

First, all solid ingredients are mixed, then water is added in portions and the dough is kneaded. Ready-made salt dough does not stick to hands.

The mass for modeling can be left in a natural color or a dye can be added during the kneading process. If you want to make the salty dough colorful, then divide the finished dough into several parts, add the necessary dye and knead well again (we used the last option).

Dyes you can use:

food (for coloring Easter eggs);
natural (coffee or cocoa give different shades of brown, paprika - orange, spirulina (dietary supplement, sold in a pharmacy) - green, turmeric - yellow).

The dough turned out soft and elastic. Such a composition is suitable for sculpting flat and semi-volumetric figures (for example, the elephant that we blinded began to “blur” after 10 minutes, and the hedgehog remarkably retained its shape). Of the minuses - after sculpting, powder from flour and salt remains on the hands, unlike hot-cooked dough.

Materials and fixtures

Of course, you can only get by with salt dough and have a wonderful time with your baby. However, the following materials will help you significantly diversify your studies.

For shaping can be used:

cookie cutters;
Pasochki from the sandbox (after washing them);
Covers of different diameters;
Self-made stencils from cardboard (prepare stencils of parts of the drawing according to the principle, then apply them to the rolled out dough and cut along the contour with a children's knife or stack).

For embossing and creating all kinds of prints will come in handy:

Lace paper and textile;
Caps from felt-tip pens;
Drill (preferably not new with a blunt end);
Fork;
Cocktail tube (it is convenient to make holes in pendants or openwork pendants);
Sticks of different diameters;
Relief plants (juniper, maple leaves);
Shells.

For decorations crafts fit:

Pasta of various shapes;
Groats (beans, peas, chickpeas);
Plant seeds (watermelon, sunflower, pumpkin);
Seasonings (black pepper, cloves);
Buttons and beads.

In addition, handicrafts will come in handy: a rolling pin, garlic press and nail scissors

Salt dough craft ideas for kids

Now let's see what can be done with the child using the above materials.

handprint

Many parents make a plaster cast or an imprint of a baby’s hand / foot as a keepsake for a year old child. The same can be done with salt dough.

We roll out a layer 1-1.5 cm thick, with the help of a small bowl we cut out a circle of a suitable diameter, attach the baby’s handle and help to press it well to the dough.

On the side we make an inscription: the date or age of the baby and send it to dry.

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Pendants and pendants

We roll out the dough and squeeze out a circle of a suitable diameter. Together with the child, we fill the circle with various materials for decoration.

Another option: we make all kinds of prints on the rolled surface, and then we cut out the area we like with the help of cookie cutters.

When all the preliminary work is over, we form a hole for hanging with a cocktail tube and dry it.

In order to make an openwork pendant, carefully make holes in the dough with a cocktail tube, turning it slightly at the end so that the dough remains in the tube.

Owl

A simple craft that a child from 3 years old can handle. Roll out the dough with a thickness of 0.5-1 cm and cut out a circle. In the lower part, using the cap from the felt-tip pen, we make semicircles - the plumage of an owl. Next, we bend two semicircles to the center - these are the wings and from above we bend a small semicircle - the head of an owl. We make eyes by pressing the closed part of the cap on the appropriate places and form the mouth of an owl with a stack. With your fingers, we correct the small ears at the place where the semicircles overlap. The owl is ready!

Hedgehog

For this craft, we need nail scissors and black pepper for the eyes. We roll the ball, after which we slightly stretch one of its sides, forming the muzzle of a hedgehog. With the help of manicure scissors, we make triangular cuts over the entire surface of the future “fur coat”, at the end raising the dough up a little - these are hedgehog needles. From black pepper we make eyes and a nose to a hedgehog. Our forest animal is ready!

caterpillar and snail

These are crafts for the little ones. For the snail, we roll out two sausages: one long narrow, the second short, but thick. We turn the narrow one into a spiral, forming a snail's house and put it on a thick base. We make eyes from black pepper, and horns from small sausages.

For the caterpillar, we roll a thick sausage and a few balls. We place the balls on the sausage, pressing them with a stick or the back of the brush. With the same stick we press on the side surfaces of the caterpillar and insert the eyes - peas.

And finally, inspiration for indecisive moms who put off salt dough modeling because of doubts about what they are. Even if the result of your joint creativity is such an animal / bird of an unknown breed as in the photo below, the child will be happy and will show off his product to everyone.

The dots on the head and furrows on the tail are made with a fork. Small balls are fixed with a round stick, and large ones are fixed with pressed beans.

Drying products and their coloring

If your child does not immediately seek to disassemble the craft, and you decide to save it, then there are two ways to dry products from salt dough:

Natural drying. The craft is left at room conditions, and it dries on its own at 1 mm per day.
Drying in the oven. They try to sculpt such crafts on foil so that the product does not deform when transferred. In addition, only natural materials should be used (without buttons, beads, etc.). The craft is placed in the oven for 1 hour at a temperature of 50 degrees. If the craft is voluminous, then alternate periods of drying in the oven and in natural conditions.

If you initially sculpted from unpainted dough, and then wanted to paint the craft, then you can do this only after it has completely dried, otherwise the paint will crack.

You will learn how to mold a basket with mushrooms from this video:

Have you tried making with salt dough? Tell me in the comments?

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 cup.

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 uncolored salt 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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From flour, you can not only bake pies and cook dumplings. Try using this raw material for beautiful salt dough crafts. We invite you to master a new female hobby, the results of which will not be difficult to find practical application.

History does not know who first came up with the idea of creating sculptures from flour, water and salt, but there is a version that confectioners came up with beautiful crafts from salt dough. Creative cooks got bored of baking quickly stale buns and, having improved the recipe, they invented a material that does not deteriorate over the years and does not lose its attractiveness. Today, testoplasty is a popular women's hobby that you should definitely try too.

Testoplasty is a fun hobby with a serious approach

Salt dough is a plastic material from which you can mold no less interesting crafts than polymer clay. Finished figurines are easy to color and decorate, turning into real works of art, which are easy to find a place not only in the home and office, but also in the museum. The presence of salt in the dough preserves the finished product and protects it from various pests that are not indifferent to flour products.

The main advantage of testoplasty is the availability of materials. The cost of finished crafts is mere pennies, and products for modeling, as well as for c, are always in any home.

Having mastered salt dough modeling, you can make small souvenirs for sale and turn a new one. Figures can be sold via the Internet, social networks or offer your masterpieces in crowded places: at train stations, in parks, on the beach.

Now in many cities open fairs are held, where everyone has the opportunity to sell what they have done with love with their own hands. Amulets, fridge magnets, kitchen decor are in great demand.

Salt dough recipe for crafts

All-purpose DIY salt dough requires just three ingredients: flour, salt, and water.
Flour should be used only the highest grade, not containing bran and any improving additives. In no case do not buy pancake, pancake and self-rising flour - during drying, the dough made from it will begin to rise, which will lead to cracks.

Salt should also be taken simple without iodine and other additives, but clean and white. Perfect for Extra. If it was not possible to find finely ground salt, you can take pure coarse salt by dissolving it in water taken in volume according to the main recipe.

Before kneading, water must be passed through a filter and cooled. It is recommended to take ice water prepared in the freezer.

Proportions of ingredients:

Flour - 300 grams;
Salt - 300 grams;
Water - 200 ml.

Video recipe from experienced craftsmen

Some craftsmen use additives to improve plasticity, for example, starch, vegetable oil or glue. However, for the first masterpiece, it is better to prepare salty dough for crafts according to the main recipe. It is important to consider that flour and salt are taken in the same proportions by weight, but salt is heavier than flour, so it turns out to be half as much in volume! For example, a glass of flour will require half a glass of salt!

Secrets of modeling and shaping figures

Working with dough does not require special talents, but the first time it is unlikely that you will be able to fashion something special. In the air, the mass of flour and salt quickly hardens, so you need to store it in a tightly closed jar, separating, if necessary, the right amount for sculpting a separate element. If the mass was dyed in different colors, then portions of hotel shades of different colors should be stored in separate containers.

There are many testing techniques. It can be rolled into a layer, and then cut out figures and form compositions from them, like flowers from sugar mastic and cold porcelain. At the joints, the parts are moistened and gently pressed against each other. Also, the same dough, diluted to a more liquid consistency, is used as glue.

For large three-dimensional figures, wire frames are used or put inside jars and boxes, which reduces the volume of raw materials and speeds up the drying process. To fasten the elements, you can use toothpicks, fastening the parts to be joined with them.

Finished works are dried in the open air or baked in an oven, which greatly speeds up the process of gaining the desired strength. During drying, the oven is turned on at the lowest temperature, and the door is slightly opened. At high temperatures, the craft may crack.

How to decorate dough products

To form reliefs and volumetric figures, you can use any materials at hand: stencils, coins, toothpicks, sushi sticks, combs, penknives, a confectionery syringe, cookie cutters, and vegetable knives.

Figures from unpainted dough have a light beige tint, but the mass can be dyed at the kneading stage, and finished products can be varnished, acrylic dyes, watercolors or gouache.

As dyes, you can use natural products, such as cocoa or beetroot juice. If dyes require dilution with water, reduce the total amount of liquid indicated in the recipe.

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Look at a selection of beautiful crafts, maybe you will fall in love with this art and make it your hobby. Try to make a simple figurine first - or a colorful one. If you have small children, make casts of their arms and legs, in 20 years this craft will be of high value.

Beautiful dough crafts: photo for inspiration

Master classes on creating figurines

If you are interested in this simple technique, try starting with simple crafts. We have prepared several master classes available for beginners.

Testoplasty (flour-salt or bioceramic) is a fascinating type of needlework that does not require much money or special skills. Sculpting from salt dough is a pleasure. Moreover, this process will be equally interesting for both children and adults. From an incredibly plastic, malleable and absolutely safe material for creativity.

Testoplasty (flour-salt or bioceramic) is a fascinating type of needlework that does not require much money or special skills. Sculpting from salt dough is a pleasure. Moreover, this process will be equally interesting for both children and adults. From an incredibly plastic, pliable and absolutely safe material for creativity, wonderful figures are obtained.

We offer you to plunge into the world of art without leaving your apartment! And to make it easier for you to master a new activity, we have prepared useful tips and master classes.

Features of working with salt dough

The origins of this type of creativity are rooted deep in the history of our culture. The same Gingerbread Man is an excellent artistic example of a product made from salt dough.

Everyone can work with the test. Surely you have a handful of flour at home! In addition, the dough is much more plastic than gypsum and more durable than plasticine.

How to prepare dough for modeling

If you finally decided to master the process of making crafts, then it would be useful to learn how to make salt dough. We offer several options for recipes, from which you can choose any you like.

1 st. fine salt;
1 st. flour;
5 st. l. sunflower oil;
water;
colored gouache or natural juice.

Thoroughly mix the dry ingredients in a deep container, pour in the oil and a little water. In order for the dough to acquire a certain color, gently stir in juice (for example, carrot or beetroot).

1.5 st. flour;
1 st. salt;
125 ml of water.

Mix everything and knead the dough, as for dumplings. To sculpt thin relief figures, add one more thing to choose from: 1 tbsp. l. PVA glue, 1 tbsp. l. starch or a mixture of wallpaper glue and water.

2 tbsp. wheat flour;
1 st. salt;
125 ml of water;
1 st. l. hand cream (vegetable oil).

Combine all ingredients and mix well until smooth. You can use a blender or mixer to speed up the process. The dough is very soft and pliable.

1 st. flour;
1 st. finely ground salts;
125 ml of water.

This is a salt dough recipe for sculpting large items. First of all, combine the salt with flour, and then pour in a little water, kneading until an elastic mass is obtained.

1.5 st. flour;
1 st. salt;
4 tbsp. l. glycerin (sold in a pharmacy);
2 tbsp. l. wallpaper glue + 125-150 ml of water.

This dough is well suited for making delicate work. For kneading, we recommend using a mixer - it makes the task much easier.

Essential tools for creativity

In addition to learning how to make salt dough for modeling, it is also important to prepare the necessary tools and a set of accessories:

a small rolling pin or a bottle of water (nowhere without it!);
board for modeling;
knife;
ballpoint pen (for creating holes and patterns);
tassel;
container with water;
curly molds for cutting cookies;
buttons, beads, rings, lace, etc. for making prints;
paints.

All this will be useful to you for creative work with the test.

Basic drying methods

When the product is ready, it must be properly dried. There are several methods. Consider the most popular of them.

Method 1 - In the oven (preheated)

Drying in an ajar oven at a temperature of 55-80 ° C (the craft is placed in a preheated oven). Place the product on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or in a heat-resistant bowl. The duration of the process can be about an hour or longer, depending on the size of the figurine.

Method 2 - Natural conditions

This refers to drying in the open air (but not in direct sunlight). This method takes longer than the first, but is more efficient. The product is best placed on a wooden or plastic surface. Air drying takes about 3-4 days. But we do not recommend drying on a battery - this can lead to the fact that the craft will crack and crumble.

Method 3 - In the oven (cold)

According to this method, salt dough crafts must be placed in a cold oven and only then turned on, eventually heating up to 150 ° C. In the same place, the products should cool down while the oven cools down.

Figures made from unpainted dough are attractive in themselves. However, after drying, they can be decorated with gouache, watercolor or acrylic paints. They are good because they dry quickly, do not smudge and do not leave marks on the hands.

Coloring methods:

Mix watercolor paints with a brush with water and apply to the product so that they do not spread.
Mix gouache with PVA glue, evenly cover the craft with this mixture.
You can give the dough a certain color even during kneading. Divide it into parts - there should be as many as how many shades you need to paint. Roll balls out of them, make a well in the middle of each and drop a couple of drops of food coloring diluted in water there. After that, knead the dough so that it is colored evenly.

Salt dough modeling also allows you to use various elements for decoration. It can be cereals, pasta, buttons, shells, beads, all kinds of threads and ribbons. The scope for imagination is unlimited!

What is varnishing for?

Finished products are varnished so that the paint does not fade and is not washed off, and the appearance of the work does not deteriorate over time. Varnishing is used if necessary and solely at the request of the author.

You can add shine to the product with varnish:

liquid - they need to cover the product in several layers, the result is ruddy and natural;
thick - it better protects the craft from moisture, you can use both varnish that gives a mirror shine, and matte.

It is preferable to use an aerosol varnish. A single application is enough to make the colors play brighter and the work become protected from damage.

Although, practice shows that proper drying allows you not even to resort to varnishing - the product will retain its original appearance for many years anyway.

Possible problems and solutions

Here is a list of problems that may arise when drying or decorating a toy from salt dough:

The dough is covered with bubbles or cracks after drying. This can be caused by the wrong choice of flour or by not following the drying rules. The most simple and inexpensive flour for modeling is suitable - low-grade rye or wheat. And the product should be dried without too much haste in a slightly preheated oven with the door ajar. In general, it is better if the craft dries naturally.
The product cracked after painting. This can happen if you started painting an insufficiently dried craft. Dry it in the fresh air, smooth out the roughness with sandpaper and repaint.
The product cracked due to the large thickness. In this case, excess dough must be removed from the back or bottom. And in order for a large product to dry evenly in the oven, it must be periodically turned over.
An element broke off. You can try to glue it with PVA glue, but it's better to just smooth out the bumps and decorate with some kind of decoration.
The piece has faded after painting. An additional coating of varnish can restore the color to its former saturation and make the craft brighter.

Salt dough crafts

According to some assumptions, the first stucco dough began to be used by culinary specialists to decorate pastries. Today, anything can be sculpted from such a wonderful material: paintings, souvenir figurines, and toys.

So, when you already know how to make salt dough, let's start creating, in fact, crafts from it.

2015 is the year of the wooden sheep, so the most relevant souvenir is the salt dough sheep. We offer you MK for the manufacture of such a figure.

Do you want something interesting?

You will need:

fine table salt;
Wheat flour;
cold water;
foil;
tassel;
white;
gouache;
black marker.

Step-by-step sequence of actions:

Combine flour and fine salt in equal proportions, add a little water.
Knead the elastic dough and send it to chill in the refrigerator for two hours.
After this time, you can start sculpting. We make 4 balls from salt dough. These will be the paws of the sheep. Place them as shown in the picture.
Roll up a piece of foil and place it on the dough. Then you need to roll a ball out of the cake - this is the body of a lamb, it must be laid on top of the paws.
Now, from pieces of dough, blind the head, horns, curls, ears and eyes.
To get something like curly sheep's wool, roll up a lot of small balls and evenly place them on the back of our animal.
The preparation is ready. It remains to place it in the oven, preheated to the minimum temperature. The sheep should dry thoroughly without cracking. At a temperature of 50 ° C, it will take about 3 hours to dry and up to half an hour to cool.
Then cover the entire surface of the figurine with white. Wait until they are completely dry.
Color the sheep with gouache. And with the help of a permanent marker, you can draw eyelashes, a mouth, circle the horns and other details as desired.
Finish off by varnishing the sheep. Varnish will add shine and smoothness to it, giving the craft a finished look.

Testoplasty allows you to create not only small voluminous souvenirs, but also whole paintings from salt dough. Of course, their creation will require some skills, patience and perseverance. However, the result is able to exceed all expectations, becoming a wonderful gift for loved ones or decorating the interior of your home.

We act in stages:

Creating a picture, like any other dough crafts, begins with the preparation, in fact, of the dough. There are many different variations of recipes, but the most popular is this: 1 tbsp. finely ground salt, 2 tbsp. flour, 200 ml of water. Knead the elastic salt dough for crafts, pack it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Take out the finished material and you can start creating by pinching off a piece of dough from the bag (it quickly becomes covered with a crust in the air).
To connect the parts together, do not use glue, but water.
It is most convenient to create a picture on foil. It is necessary to dry the result: in the oven or in the air.
When the craft dries, paint it with gouache and cover with two layers of varnish.
Finally, attach the picture to the canvas or any other framed fabric.

All kinds of cats, birds, snowmen, bears, dachshunds, flowers and much more look very beautiful. You can create pictures based on the plot of a fairy tale - this will be especially interesting for children. You can see some examples of work for inspiration in the pictures.

Symbolic figurines-flour-salt

Salt dough is a great alternative to clay. And crafts from it can become a unique decoration for your home or an original gift idea. It has long been believed that flour salt in the house is a symbol of prosperity and family well-being.

Regardless of what kind of figures you plan to make, the dough for them can be prepared according to one of the recipes above.

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin until it is 0.5 cm thick.
On this sheet, make prints of any cookie cutters. These are future figurines made from salt dough.
Turn on the oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Using a wooden spatula, or just use your hands, transfer the figures to a baking sheet.
With a cocktail tube or a toothpick, make a hole in each of the figures so that you can then thread a thread through it and hang the figures, say, on a Christmas tree (well, or hang them around the house).
Bake in the oven at the lowest temperature for several hours.
Lay them out on a flat surface and let cool.
Color the toys however you like.

Here are a few more examples of flour salts that are easy to make and look amazing!

Each recipe for salt dough for crafts involves the use of exclusively wheat or rye flour (but definitely not pancake) and finely ground salt (not iodized, since the dough will not be homogeneous, but with large inclusions).
Mixing water must be very cold. Add it in portions, diligently kneading the dough. Depending on the flour you choose, you may need different amounts of water.
The dough should not stick to your hands or crumble. If it does not stick well, add a little water, and if it sticks, add a little flour.
Salt dough keeps well in the refrigerator in a plastic bag or in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Use it piece by piece as needed, because the finished dough in the air quickly becomes covered with a dry crust, which spoils the appearance of the products. Expiration date of the test is 1 week.
Crafts from small elements look more elegant. To make the parts stick well to each other, moisten the joints with water using a brush.
To color the dough itself, add a little food coloring diluted in water (for Easter eggs). From the dough of different colors, you can create new shades: for this, just knead the multi-colored pieces with your fingers.

Testoplasty is not just children's fun, but also a corrective activity that allows you to develop fine motor skills of the hands, perseverance and imagination of kids, cultivating aesthetic taste. And for adults, this is a great way of self-expression and recuperation. We wish you inspiration, and let creativity be only a joy!

Modeling from salt dough or dough plastic is an interesting activity that does not require high costs and special skills. Plastic dough allows you to sculpt crafts of various shapes, including figurines, toys and decorations, souvenirs and whole paintings. The dough is more plastic and stable than traditional materials such as plasticine gypsum, clay or plasticine. In addition, it is a safe natural material that will not cause allergies in the baby.

The process will captivate every child! In addition, testoplasty develops hand motility, accuracy, perseverance and attentiveness, trains the imagination. Modeling is also useful for adults, as it helps to relax, get distracted from everyday affairs and recuperate. This is a great way to express yourself. In the article, we will look at how to make salt dough for modeling, and find out what crafts can be created from this material.

Take wheat flour or a mixture of wheat and rye. A material made only from rye flour turns out to be too hard, it is difficult to sculpt from it;
Cheap and simple low-grade flour is optimal;
Salt take only fine grinding;
Cold water is used for mixing;
The resulting dough should not crumble or stick. If the material does not mold, add a little water. If it sticks to the skin, there is still not enough flour;
Before making crafts, it is advisable to send the dough for one to two hours in the refrigerator. Pre-wrap the material in cling film or a food container with a tight lid;
Crafts need to be dried when they are ready;
Products made from rye flour are dried first in the air, and then in the oven or only in the air. Wheat dough can be dried immediately in the oven;
Dry the dough in the air in a closed container;
Do not dry finished crafts on a battery and in direct sunlight!
The remaining salt dough is stored in the refrigerator, previously wrapped in cling film, a plastic bag or tightly closed in a container;
The shelf life of the dough is seven days, but it is advisable to use the material in the first two to three days.

How to make salt dough

1 way

This is the easiest method to make salt dough for modeling. Take a glass of fine salt and flour, stir the ingredients. Add five tablespoons of sunflower oil or hand cream. Stir again and gradually add water. Knead or beat the mass until it becomes homogeneous and elastic. It takes about one to one and a half glasses of water. To beat the mixture quickly and as well as possible, take a blender or mixer.

To achieve any color, food coloring or natural juice is added to the mixture. Carrots give an orange or yellow color, beetroot broth gives a rich burgundy hue, squeezed juice from spinach makes the dough green. Boil a vegetable or greens until tender and pour the resulting broth into the mixture of the future dough.

2 way

This recipe for salt dough for children does not involve a completely natural composition due to the content of glue. But such a mixture sets and dries faster. In addition, it is suitable for sculpting both large products and small relief elements.

Cooking will require 1.5 cups of flour and water, a glass of salt and four tablespoons of glycerin. Knead the dough as for, then add two tablespoons of dry wallpaper paste or PVA glue, previously diluted in a small amount of water. Thoroughly stir the resulting mass or beat in a blender.

3 way

This recipe for children's salt dough for modeling will allow you to get the most elastic material that is easy to work with. When cooking, both wheat and rye flour are used. You can use only wheat flour, but rye flour will give the products a warm and pleasant brown-woody tint.

Take one and a half glasses of wheat flour and water, half a glass of rye flour and two glasses of salt. Mix dry bulk components and gradually pour in water until the mixture becomes homogeneous and plastic. Such crafts are aesthetic and durable.

How to make and dry salt dough crafts

Puff pastry is a great substitute for clay or plasticine. From this material you can mold figures and souvenirs, toys and paintings. Regardless of what product the child wants to sculpt, the dough can be prepared according to any recipe described above.

To make figurines from puff pastry, do the following:

Roll out the prepared dough to a thickness of 0.5 centimeters;
On the layer, mark the figures using molds;
Put the blanks on a baking sheet covered with baking paper;
In each little thing, you can make a hole with a toothpick. In the future, you can thread a thread or ribbon into a toy and hang it, for example, on a Christmas tree;
Products are baked in the oven at a minimum temperature for several hours;
Cooled toys are painted.

With the help of testoplasty, you can mold the whole picture. It is better to create such masterpieces on foil, and to use water and a brush to connect the parts. For drying in the oven, the oven is heated to 55-80 degrees and the crafts are dried with the door open. Finished products can also be dried in natural conditions in a closed container.

Natural drying is a longer process that takes three to four days. But at the same time it is more gentle and effective. Recall that things made from rye flour are preferably air-dried first, and then dried in the oven. When the figurines and toys are dry, proceed to coloring and final design.

Making crafts

Paints are used to color the figurines. It is better to choose acrylic, as they do not smudge, do not stain the skin and dry quickly. Gouache is mixed with PVA glue before painting. You can also paint with watercolors. However, you can leave the products in their original form, especially if you added food or natural dyes to the dough during cooking.

When sculpting, different elements of decoration are used. Suitable buttons and beads, ribbons, threads, small shells, pasta and cereals. If the product is cracked after staining, dry it in the fresh air. Then remove the imperfections with sandpaper and paint again. Protects against cracking and defects varnish coating. In addition, it prevents paint from fading and preserves the aesthetics of things for a long time.

Liquid varnish will give the surface a ruddy and natural shine, thick varnish effectively protects the product from the negative effects of moisture. It can make the surface matte or shiny. Aerosol sprays are easy to use. They will protect the surface from damage and give brightness.