Mothers who pay a lot of attention to the development of a child often ask themselves the question: how to make salt dough for modeling? And the point here is not only that sculpting is useful. Do-it-yourself dough turns out to be completely safe, cheap and at the same time it is not nearly inferior to the purchased one. In addition, you can make it at any time when there is a mood to sculpt. It is prepared quickly from ingredients that are in every home.
Why sculpt with kids?
Salt dough modeling is an exciting activity for the whole family. Making figurines with your own hands is interesting for children of any age. You can already do modeling with one and a half year old kids, this activity will also appeal to preschoolers and younger students. Yes, and many adults will be pleased to remember their childhood and blind, for example, fly agaric or hippo. 
In addition to the fact that modeling from salt dough is interesting for children, it is also a useful activity. She develops:
- fine motor skills of the hands, which, in turn, stimulates early speech development;
- spatial thinking;
- creative thinking;
- color thinking;
- cognitive activity;
- attention;
- memory;
- perseverance:
- movement coordination.
Modeling from dough at home gives the concept of colors, shapes, sizes, has a positive effect on the emotional state of children and, in general, has a beneficial effect on the development of the nervous system. Therefore, this lesson is recommended for hyperactive kids. 
For preschoolers and younger students, creating crafts from salt dough helps to acquire useful skills, such as:
- diligence;
- accuracy;
- the ability to fantasize;
- the ability to think and analyze independently;
- copying parts from a template;
- purposefulness.
For modeling to turn into a full-fledged developmental activity, it is not enough for parents to know the recipe for salt dough and cook it, and then watch the process from a distance. You need to deal with children: show, tell, guide, encourage. However, one should not demand too much from children at once, and one should not impose one's opinion on diverse issues on them.
How to cook salt dough?
To prepare salt dough at home, there is more than one recipe and several methods of kneading. To the classic ingredients - water, salt and flour - add starch, wallpaper paste, glitter, flavors. You can experiment if the modeling mass is prepared for children over 3 years old. Various additives improve its properties and the quality of finished crafts. However, for children of one and a half years it is better to cook the most common salt dough. To make it more interesting for kids to sculpt, you can add natural dyes to it.
To get colored salty dough, you need to add dye to the water before kneading or color it already ready. It is convenient to add dye to water in advance when a lot of mass of the same color is required. And if you need several small-sized balls of multi-colored dough, then it is better to add dye to the already prepared mass for modeling. As part of the test, which is prepared for children, you can use food colors or natural coloring agents (cocoa, beetroot and carrot juice, turmeric, etc.)
There are two ways to knead the dough:
- mix salt with flour and gradually add water;
- Dissolve salt in water and add flour.
The first method is used when the recipe contains an approximate amount of ingredients in shares. With this method, it is constantly necessary to control the density of the kneaded mass. And if you accidentally pour water, you will have to add a mixture of flour and salt again. This may take a long time.
You need to use the second method if the recipe contains the exact amount of ingredients by weight. It is enough to measure the required amount of flour, salt and water using a kitchen scale and knead the dough. Below will be given weight norms for all the necessary ingredients, from which a plastic mass for modeling is quickly prepared. It is easy and pleasant to sculpt from it - it does not stick to the hands and it turns out very similar to the store.
Recipe
To quickly prepare salt dough, you can use the following recipe. You will need:
- 150 g of premium wheat flour;
- 150 g non-iodized table salt "Extra", that is, fine grinding (you can grind ordinary salt in a coffee grinder);
- 100 g of cold water.
Please note: flour and salt are taken in equal masses, but their volumes are not equal!
To color the finished salty mass, you will need natural dyes:
- 3 tsp turmeric for yellow;
- 3 tsp cocoa for brown;
- 3 tsp raw beetroot juice for pink;
- 1.5 tsp salt (as a thickener for beetroot juice);
- 2.5 tsp flour (as a thickener for beetroot juice).
Proceed according to the following algorithm.
- Weigh the required amount of ingredients.
- Dissolve the salt in the water as much as possible. Such a quantity will not completely disperse.
- Pour flour by weight into salt water, as indicated in the recipe.
- Stir the flour with a wooden spoon, breaking up the lumps.
- When the flour dissolves in salt water, knead the dough on the table. The result should be a plastic mass that does not stick to your hands. It is similar in texture to store-bought play dough.
- Now let's start creating a color dough with our own hands. Divide the finished salt mass for modeling into 4 parts. One of them will remain white, and we will color the other three in brown, pink and yellow.
- To get a pink color, peel the beets and grate with small cells. Squeeze out the juice. Mix 3 tsp. juice from 1.5 tsp. salt and 2.5 tsp. flour. You should get a thick mass of bright pink color.
- Flatten the ball of dough and put pink dye in the middle of it. Gather the edges so that the dye is inside. Roll the ball between your palms, flattening it slightly. The paint from the inside should disperse. Hands can get dirty with this method of coloring. Wear gloves to protect them.
- Knead and roll the ball between your palms until it is evenly colored. While coloring the rest of the dough, put the pink ball in a plastic box with a tightly screwed lid so that the surface does not wind up and crust over.
- To get a yellow color, add 5 tsp to turmeric. water. You should get a thick coloring mass. And to get a brown dye, mix cocoa with 4 tsp. water. Color 2 balloons brown and yellow in the same way as you did with pink dye. DIY colored salt dough is ready. Sculpt for health!
Storage conditions
The recipe for salt dough is quite simple and does not take much time to prepare, so it is not made for future use. There is another reason - the mass quickly winds up and becomes covered with a crust. Sculpting from it becomes impossible. But if the dough is still left after sculpting, it should be put in a plastic container with a tight-fitting lid or in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator.
It is convenient to store colored dough in separate jars: for each color - its own. The main thing is that the lids close tightly. The jars remaining from under the purchased mass are perfect. In the refrigerator, properly packaged salt dough can last an average of about 10 days.
It is undesirable to leave the mass for modeling in the air for a long time during the creation of crafts. Let the dough be in a resealable container on the table. You should take a piece of the size that is currently needed. This is not a whim, but a recipe for storage. Also, this condition will allow you to maintain order in the workplace.
Crafting with colorful salt dough is a wonderful activity to help your child develop as they play. This is not boring exercises and tedious tasks, but a magical colorful fairy tale that every adult can tell to their child. Moreover, he now knows the recipe for modeling mass.
On the modern market of goods for creativity, you can find a huge number of kits for modeling - many types of plasticine (ball, floating, super soft, hardening), special dough, a mass of various properties, and so on. But it will be more useful and interesting for the child to prepare the mixture for modeling on their own, under the strict guidance of their parents. How to make plasticine at home from improvised materials? There are several ways.
About the benefits of playing with plasticine
Why do some parents dislike plasticine? Obviously, because he gets under the nails of the children, sticks to the floor and furniture, sometimes leaving greasy stains. But if you put these small troubles on one side of the scale (they can be avoided if you teach the child to handle plasticine carefully), and on the other - the benefits of modeling, then it will immediately become clear that plasticine is a very useful thing for children, with which they you should be able to handle from a very early age (from a year or two - it depends on the individual characteristics of the development of babies).
Classes with plasticine help the child:
- start talking faster, since there are many nerve endings on the pads of children's fingers, through the stimulation of which the development of the speech apparatus is accelerated;
- develop fine motor skills and learn to control your little fingers more perfectly;
- develop imagination and creative thinking - you need to work hard and work with your head to figure out how to make, for example, a heart for mom;
- reduce nervous tension - the process of kneading the plasticine mass acts in the same way as performing anti-stress exercises;
- train perseverance, observation and concentration;
- gain new knowledge - through plasticine, you can study colors, shapes, properties (large, small, hard, soft, etc.);
- have fun in active communication with a loved one.
Homemade plasticine recipes
The composition of purchased plasticine does not inspire confidence, as it contains many obscure chemicals that are unlikely to be safe for children. How to replace what the stores offer? The answer is obvious - do-it-yourself clay made from safe ingredients at home. Moreover, there are a great many recipes for home-made plasticine.
Salt dough (sculptural clay)
The most common version of homemade sculptural clay is made from flour, salt and water:
- 2 cups of salt should be mixed with 1 cup of flour;
- knead the dough, gradually adding 1 cup of cold water;
- if the resulting plasticine unpleasantly sticks to your hands, then you can mix a little more flour into it.
The second way (with heating):
- mix 1 cup flour and a quarter cup salt;
- bring half a glass of water to a boil and pour the resulting loose mixture into it;
- add any vegetable oil there - 1 tablespoon;
- cook until a ball is formed;
- knead the dough thoroughly, divide into parts and add dyes.
Mass for modeling
An excellent alternative to dough can be a soft modeling mass created from starch and other ingredients.
Method number 1 (with shaving foam):
- pour 400 grams of starch into a capacious container or onto a tray;
- gradually add shaving foam in small portions, mixing after each addition (approximately 100-200 grams of foam);
- to make the mass more elastic, you can add any vegetable oil (about a tablespoon), and for color - food (preferably gel) dye.
Method number 2 (with soda):
- mix 2 cups (without a slide) of baking soda, 1 cup of starch and 1 and a quarter cup of ice water;
- divide into parts and add dyes (you can use natural ones - juice of beets, carrots, and so on).
Method number 3 (hardening mass):
- the mass is created in exactly the same way as the second option (with starch and soda), but only 1.5 cups of water are required;
- then you need to put the mixture on the fire and cook until the contents are collected in a ball;
- remove from heat and knead well;
- store in a closed container or under a film, otherwise the mass will quickly harden.
Ball plasticine, which can also be prepared at home, has very good indicators of a positive effect on the comprehensive development of babies.
- Place expanded polystyrene (polystyrene) granules in a tight bag (they are sold in online stores and some construction companies).
- Pour 1 bottle of PVA glue into the same bag (you can also put dye there if you wish) and shake well.
- Add a few drops of sodium tetraborate to the resulting homogeneous mass (this is borax - sold in pharmacies, it costs a penny) - the smaller it is, the denser the mass will be.
To create jumping clay (plastic chewing gum for hands, from which you can make jumping balls), you need to combine 100 grams of fresh (for a period of no more than 3 months from manufacture) PVA glue, half a bottle of borax (sodium tetraborate) and a few drops of dye.
When mixing, use glassware, as well as gloves and goggles. An essential oil is added to add flavor to the chewing gum.
The sandbox is a favorite children's entertainment, but it is not available in winter. This is easy to fix by creating your own sand clay ():
- mix in a bowl or other large container 2 cups of starch (corn or potato) and 1 cup of water;
- add 4 cups of clean (this is important, street will not work) fine sand (available at pet supplies) and again mix the mixture thoroughly;
- divide into parts and color by adding dyes.
Making homemade plasticine is not only development and entertainment for the child, but also a great opportunity for parents to become a little closer to their baby.
I have already written many times about how important the baby is. Yes, I think you know this very well without me. Therefore, today, without further ado, I want to tell you about another exciting and very useful activity - about modeling with kids and how you can play if you have a piece of dough at hand. All these games are useful not only for the development of fine motor skills, but also for the development of imagination, thinking, perseverance of the baby.
Often, mothers ask themselves the question: “What is better to choose for classes with a baby: dough or plasticine?” In my opinion, it would be better if you give the child the opportunity to get acquainted with different substances and sensations, you will conduct classes with both dough and plasticine. But here for the smallest (from 1 year old) it is better to use dough in modeling classes and that's why:
The dough is much softer and more pliable than clay, and for kids who still find it difficult to knead clay, this is important.
Given the fact that many kids will want to taste the modeling mass, dough (home-made) is much safer from this point of view, since its main components are flour, salt and water, and plasticine is still a combination of chemical components.
The dough can be prepared independently, or can be purchased at a store (for example, "Play Doh"). But if you knead the dough at home at least once, then, for sure, you will no longer want to deal with the purchased one. Homemade dough is more plastic, softer, more pleasant, and there is a lot of it! In addition, the process of preparing the dough is quite simple and does not take much time.
So how do you make play dough? Here are two test recipes that I have repeatedly tested and I really like. The first recipe can be called a classic salt dough recipe. The dough on it is prepared very quickly and simply, it is often used to create durable crafts, after drying it can be painted.
Salt dough for modeling - a classic recipe
1 cup flour
½ cup salt (preferably "extra")
½ glass of water
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Mix all ingredients and mix well until smooth.
Recipe for a very plastic dough
And one more recipe for a very, very soft, plastic, homogeneous and, I would even say, ideal dough! :) It is not suitable for drying and painting, but it is the best for fun games with dough.
1 cup flour
1 glass of water
¼ cup salt
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp citric acid
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, stir, then place over medium heat. After that, we begin to actively stir the dough with a spoon until it forms a ball and stops sticking to our hands. It will take no more than 3 minutes to mix. After the dough has cooled, you can start playing with it.
Do not neglect such a seemingly insignificant ingredient as citric acid! If you do not add it, then after storage in the refrigerator, the dough will begin to stick to your hands.
Food coloring can be added to any version of the dough. If you do not have a dye to tint the dough, you can use beet or carrot juice, turmeric, brilliant green, gouache. Well, if you divide the dough into several parts and paint them in different colors, it will be even more interesting!
Both doughs keep in the refrigerator in a closed container for quite a long time (several weeks).
Test games
So, you have the dough, what to do with it next? First of all, of course, you need to introduce the baby to the test. Give him the opportunity to touch, crush him. You can mold some kind of bun or bunny in order to show what the dough is capable of. If the acquaintance went well, you can move on to games.
Remember that the whole lesson should not last longer than 5-10 minutes. Do not try to include all the games in one lesson, watch the baby and always stop before he gets tired of the lesson. If a child loses interest in a particular game, it may be too easy or too difficult for him. Try to simplify or make the task easier.
1. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin
The kid, most likely, will begin to roll out the dough with pleasure, because he has seen more than once how his mother does it. If the crumbs are not good at wielding a rolling pin, help him by clasping his hands with yours.
Both a toy and a real kitchen rolling pin are suitable for the game. My daughter likes to roll with a big rolling pin even more.
2. Press various objects into the dough
Further, you can declare that the resulting cake is not just a cake, but a pizza or cake, which now needs to be decorated. And for this purpose, you can use a variety of items: matches, pasta, beans, counting sticks, small toys, lids, etc. Try to use objects of different shapes and sizes to diversify the child's tactile sensations.
3. Create simple crafts based on pressing objects into the dough
Here are some examples:
- Hedgehog
For the smallest, toothpicks can be replaced with matches or counting sticks.
- little man
Be sure to involve the child in rolling the torso and head. If the baby is not doing well yet, take his hands in yours and make rotational movements together.
4. Pinch off small pieces of dough, put them in a jar / bowl
This activity is very useful for the development of fine motor skills, as it trains the "plucked" grip. Beating the lesson is quite simple: invite the kid to feed his favorite bear with sweets. The game is likely to appeal to the smallest - children about a year old. At this age, kids really like to mess with small objects, fold and shift them.
5. Prick the dough on a fork
The same sweets that you made for the bear, try also to stick on the fork. You can tell the baby that the bear prefers to eat only from a fork, but refuses in a different way. So in the game we will quietly work out a very useful skill.
6. Cut with a knife
In this lesson, the main thing is to teach the child to hold the knife correctly and, importantly, to independently hold the dough with his left hand (if the baby is right-handed). A toy plastic knife, a special plastic dough knife or a butter knife are well suited for playing. The lesson will be interesting for a baby from about 1 year 3 months.
7. Leave prints on the test
We press the toy into the dough, carefully remove it and ale-op, a beautiful pattern is obtained on the dough! Taisiya was simply delighted with this activity, and could get carried away for a long time, imprinting pasta on the dough.
Good for printing sorter figures, pasta tubes, small toys, designer parts, fork, comb . Well, if a car passes through the test, leaving traces (preferably with large wheels and protectors on them), then the baby will most likely appreciate it.
And, of course, it is worth mentioning the cookie cutters separately. With the help of them, you can not only make beautiful prints. With older kids, you can try to remove the "excess" dough around the molds so that you get "cookies".
Fingerprints can also be made with just a finger. After that, it will be very interesting to “sow” the seeds into the resulting holes. It will turn out another wonderful exercise for the development of a "tweezer" grip.
8. Pass the dough through a garlic press
9. Put the dough into a mold - make a pie
For this game, you can use both cupcake molds and clean molds from the sand set. Putting the dough in a mold, we try to properly compact each piece. Most likely, you will have to get the pie out of the mold with your mother's help, because. this job is not easy.
10. Hiding surprises in the dough and finding them
This is our favorite game. I think all children love when there is a surprise moment in the game. They are ready to open intricate locks, unscrew stubborn covers, just to see what is hidden behind them. Children are happy to find surprises, even if they themselves hid them!
Therefore, in this lesson, first, together with the baby, we hide the toy in the dough, putting it on one half of the cake and closing the second. Older kids can be offered to pinch the edges, as when sculpting a pie. For younger children, mom can do it. Well, then we ask ourselves the question “Where is our hedgehog?” or “Oh, who is hiding here?”. Perhaps, at the first games, the baby will have to show how to "dig" to the toy. Most likely, the baby will catch everything very quickly and will subsequently pick up the dough with impatience.
Even such a seemingly simple task is incredibly useful for children's fingers.
11. Sculpt sausages, koloboks and simple figures with my mother's help.
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It has long been proven that modeling helps to develop speech. We offer you to make plasticine with your own hands and spend unforgettable minutes (or maybe hours!) of joint creativity with your baby. Our modeling mass recipes have been tested on the most creative creators and their mothers. Choose yours!
Modeling is a great way to develop fine motor skills, but not all mothers willingly give plasticine to babies - they are afraid that the child will swallow it, get dirty himself and dirty everything around. Teachers in kindergarten and school also do not like him, since keeping track of 10-20 kids kneading plasticine in their hands is not an easy task. In fact, the fact that plasticine stains furniture, sticks to the floor and clothes, gets stuck under nails, etc. is pure excuse. If you teach a child to work with him correctly, nothing terrible will happen. Moreover, almost all children, without exception, like the modeling process itself.
Today, the industry offers a wide range of products for modeling: colored dough, clay (plain, white, polymeric, self-hardening), plasticine (floating, ball, wax, sculptural), mastic, etc. In addition to all of the above, you can always prepare homemade clay. What we propose to do using our recipes.
1. Mass that glows in the dark
You will need:
UV lamp;
vitamin B (tablets or capsules) 2 pcs.;
2 tbsp. flour; 2 tbsp. warm water;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
cream of tartar (can be found in the spice shop);
2/3 st. salt.
Cooking method:
Crush the vitamins into a powder, add the flour, 4 teaspoons of cream of tartar, salt and mix well. Then add water and vegetable oil. Mix well so that there are no lumps. Pour the mixture into a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the mass becomes like plasticine and no longer sticks to the saucepan and hands. When everything cools down, you can start experimenting. Turn off the light and turn on the lamp. Plasticine will glow in the dark!
2. Edible plasticine
You will need:
½ st. softened unsalted butter;
1 st. l. thick cream;
¼ tsp vanillin (optional);
3-4 st. powdered sugar;
Cooking method:
Beat butter and cream with a mixer. Gradually add powdered sugar to the mass and mix. The mass should become thick and dense enough for sculpting. At the end, add vanilla. Knead the dough on a surface sprinkled with powdered sugar. Divide it into several parts, drop a drop of food coloring into each and mix well again. If you do not want to use dyes, you can leave the mass of white. Now you can start sculpting! The most important thing is that everything that you blind can be eaten.
3. Soft clay from starch
You will need:
2 tbsp. soda;
1 st. starch;
1 ¼ st. cold water;
helium food coloring (optional)
Cooking method:
Mix all ingredients, add dye. Soft and absolutely safe mass for modeling is ready! Even if the kid decides to taste his works of art, nothing bad will happen to him.
4. Mass for modeling with citric acid
You will need:
2 tbsp. flour;
2 tbsp. boiling water;
½ st. salt;
2 tbsp. l. citric acid;
1 tsp glycerin (for shine);
food coloring.
Cooking method:
Mix everything thoroughly. Add vegetable oil to boiling water and pour into flour. Knead the dough. Knead until the clay is smooth and pleasant to the touch. You can add glitter if you like.
5. Mass for modeling with cream of tartar
You will need:
1 st. flour;
1 st. cold water;
½ st. salt;
2 tsp tartar;
food coloring for color.
Cooking method:
Mix flour with salt, gradually adding water. Add cream of tartar, oil and food coloring. Cook over medium heat until a ball forms. Cool and knead well.
6. Boiled salt dough
You will need:
1 st. flour;
½ st. warm water;
¼ st. salt;
1 st. l. vegetable oil;
food coloring for color.
Cooking method:
Mix flour with salt and pour everything into boiling water. While stirring, cook over low heat until the mass takes the form of a ball. Knead on a floured surface until it does not stick to your fingers and becomes elastic.
7. Mass for modeling in the microwave
You will need:
2 tbsp. flour; 2 tbsp. water;
1 st. salt;
1 st. l. vegetable oil;
1 st. l. tartar;
food colorings.
Cooking method:
Mix flour and salt first, then add water, oil, cream of tartar and dyes. Transfer the resulting mass to a baking dish, cover with a lid and put in the microwave for 4-5 minutes (at medium power). When cool, knead.
8. Mass for modeling without water
You will need:
300 g flour;
325 g of salt;
2 tbsp. l. wine vinegar;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
food coloring.
Cooking method:
Mix flour with salt and wine vinegar. Add vegetable oil and food coloring. Transfer to a saucepan and put on a small fire. Stir until a thick mass is formed. Cool and knead well.
9. Mass for modeling based on jelly
You will need:
1 st. flour;
1 st. warm water;
2 tbsp. l. salt;
2 tbsp. l. cream of tartar (can be replaced with apple cider vinegar);
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
100 g jelly (approximately).
Cooking method:
Mix everything and place in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until a ball is formed. When the mass has cooled, knead well. If it sticks to your hands, add flour.
10. Classic salt dough
You will need:
2 tbsp. salt
1 st. flour;
1 st. cold water.
Cooking:
Mix flour and salt, add water in portions. Knead the mass well, first with a spoon, and then on a floured surface until a bun forms. If necessary, add flour so that the mass does not stick to your hands. In some salt dough recipes, it is recommended to add wallpaper paste, glycerin, sunflower oil. Here, as they say, the taste and color ...
11. Self-hardening mass for modeling
You will need:
1 part fine-grained putty;
1 part starch;
5 pieces of PVA glue;
glycerin (a couple of drops);
citric acid (a pinch).
Cooking:
Mix all ingredients. Lubricate your hands with a fat cream and knead the mass well. Wrap the resulting dough in a film so that it does not dry out.
12. Self-hardening mass for modeling (boiled)
You will need:
2 tbsp. soda;
1 st. starch (preferably corn);
1.5 st. water.
Cooking:
Cook for a few minutes. The mass will first begin to bubble, and then gather into a lump. Remove from fire and knead.
13. Self-hardening mass for modeling based on wallpaper glue
You will need:
1 part wallpaper paste (with modified starch);
3 parts water;
1 part soda.
Cooking:
Mix the ingredients and leave for 20 minutes to swell. Add a couple of drops of liquid soap. Knead with the addition of petroleum jelly or baby body oil. No need to cook! If necessary, you can add regular starch (so as not to stick to your hands).
The last three recipes are suitable for making products for interior decoration. Things are fragile, but with careful handling can last a long time.
Speaking of color...
Food coloring can be added both at the very beginning of cooking to the dough itself, and later. If food coloring is not available, you can use some food from the refrigerator or medicines from the first aid kit. For example, green color can be obtained by adding a few drops of brilliant green to the dough, brown - cocoa or strong brewed coffee, red - cherry or beetroot juice, purple - blackcurrant juice, yellow - turmeric or carrot juice. As an option, in addition to color, you can add flavors! For this purpose, you can use spices or essences for baking. Thus, the child also develops a sense of smell.
If an older child will sculpt (you are sure that he will not pull the dough into his mouth), you can use gouache - the color is bright and persistent. You can not tint the mass for modeling at all, work with white. The finished figure can always be painted at the end and varnished.
It is very useful for children to sculpt: both hands are involved (all fingers and the inner surface of the palm). Children learn to coordinate hand movements, acquire sensory experience, develop an eye, imagination, perseverance, accuracy, manual labor skills, and spatial thinking. Children get the opportunity to perform voluminous crafts, learn to feel the shape. When plasticine is prepared at home, you can not be afraid that the child will taste it.
"Tasty" plasticine to you and a sea of \u200b\u200bideas for joint creativity! We hope you find yours among the suggested recipes!
Dear readers! Does your child love to sculpt? Do you have a favorite recipe for sculpting mass. We are waiting for answers in the comments.
SALT PLASTILINE - what is it?
This is the most valuable material for the development of your baby:
- Modeling develops fine motor skills of the hands, which affects the development of the baby's speech
- Modeling teaches perseverance, concentration
- The eye improves, understanding of color and shape comes
- For kids, modeling is also the development of thinking: the child learns the world through tactile sensations, learns to create a three-dimensional world
- Naturally, modeling is also the development of fantasy. From one piece of plasticine, you can fashion an uncountable number of images!
- Modeling helps develop spatial thinking
- This is the most accessible type of creativity for the baby, which teaches you to work synchronously with both hands.
- Salty plasticine made with your own hands is a guarantee of the safety of the composition. After all, you are in control of it.
- Salty plasticine is tasteless, having tried it once, the baby is unlikely to want to pull another piece into his mouth
And now RECIPES!
We love salty plasticine. It can be made in 5-10 minutes and in such quantity that will definitely satisfy the indefatigable imagination of all your children. So.
CLASSIC RECIPE
250 grams of flour
125 grams of salt (small)
approx. 125 ml cold water (the amount of water depends on the type of flour)
1 teaspoon citric acid
1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil
Mix flour with salt and mix well. Dissolve citric acid in water and add vegetable oil. Gradually pour the mixture into the flour with salt and knead the dough. Salty plasticine should be resilient, dense, elastic, not stick to the hands and the table.
We make the dough all together: mom is watching the process, the children are preparing ...
Pros: the dough is prepared quickly, does not require special skills, even children can cook it. You can make poles of any complexity.
Minuses: Finished products are more fragile in comparison with products made from custard salted plasticine
CUSTOM RECIPE
3/4 cup salt
From 1 cup flour
1 glass of water
1 st. gelatin spoon
1 teaspoon citric acid
1 st. a spoonful of vegetable oil
Making custard dough takes practice. Don't be discouraged if you don't succeed the first time. This dough is worth trying again.
Dilute gelatin in water and let it swell so that it becomes soft. We put a saucepan on the fire, pour salt into it and pour water with gelatin, mix and heat slightly. Pour the flour into the resulting mixture and mix thoroughly. We do not stop, we heat the plasticine and mix, mix, mix ... Until we get a tight lump in the saucepan.
We spread it on the table, sprinkle with flour and knead, adding flour, until the dough stops sticking to the hands and the table.
Pros: finished products are stronger, the dough lasts longer, it is more elastic and you can make very small parts out of it. By the way, did your children play with plasticine heat? This is a unique feeling and a very interesting experience for children.
Minuses: dough preparation requires practice and skill; finished products dry longer.
SECRETS OF SALT PLASTILINE
Salty plasticine becomes softer, more elastic if it lies in a sealed bag for 2-3 hours.
The dough can be stored up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Use plastic bags or sealed containers.
If the dough dries a little, then it can be "revived" if you add a little water and mix.
You can also use coarse salt, but then the dough will not be soft, but will be rough, with grains. But on the other hand, this is an additional massage for children's hands!
Some mothers add cereals, beads, sparkles, sand to the dough. This makes salty plasticine unusual, textured, which develops the child's tactile sensations.
HOW TO COLOR FINISHED PRODUCTS
You have two options:
1. Color the dough
2. Paint the dried craft with paint
The dough itself can be dyed with natural or synthetic food coloring, as well as gouache. After preparing the salt dough according to any recipe, divide it into pieces. Each of them will be painted in its own color. The work is certainly dirty, but it's worth it if you want. Main! If the baby pulls such a dough into his mouth, then he will not get dirty in the paint. This dough does not paint the hands and the table!
Finished products are well painted with gouache, watercolor, oil. Less water - more paint. When everything is dry, you can cover everything with varnish. But! If you take up the craft with wet hands or lick it, then the paint will most likely rub off on your hands or on the tongue of the child. So it makes sense to choose this method of painting for adult children who no longer put anything in their mouths or for gifts to grandparents and friends.
HOW TO PLAY WITH SALT PLASTILINE?
· You can sculpt different figures
Roll out dough and make prints with objects
Make a memory print of the baby's hand and foot in a piece of dough
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