The topic of our conversation in this publication will be the question " how to make salt dough?". In fact, it is a very affordable and quite popular material for making all kinds of crafts and decorations for every taste and color. Like plasticine, this material is quite light and easy to use. From it you can fashion figures of any degree of complexity, ranging from from tiny figurines to large voluminous figurines.This material is also ideal for decorating various interior details, clothing, accessories and much more.
recipe It is very simple and the ingredients for its preparation can be found in any kitchen. Flour, salt and water - that's all we need. The advantages of making crafts from this wonderful material are:
We can start work at any time convenient for us, practically without spending a penny;
It is very convenient to work with the dough material, as it is easily washed and does not leave any traces;
Safe to use by children, even the smallest (there is no need to be afraid that a piece will get into the mouth and cause poisoning);
The creative material practically does not stick to your hands, provided it is prepared correctly;
Finished products are dried both in the oven and in the open air;
Can be painted with any colors;
Provided the craft is coated with varnish, it is stored for a long time and has a presentable appearance.
Well, now directly about the recipes for preparing this material for handicrafts.
How to make salt dough - recipe№ 1
To work you will need:
2 cups of the most ordinary wheat flour;
1 glass of plain table salt "Extra";
250 grams of cold water.
Cooking method.
It should be noted that the manufacturing process itself is very, very simple. All you need to do is mix flour with salt and then add water. After which a mass of thick consistency is mixed.
It is better to determine the readiness of the product with your hands; if the mixture is loose and crumbles, then you need to add a little water to it, or vice versa, if it is viscous and sticks to your hands, then pour a little flour into it.
The mass should be thoroughly mixed and rolled into a ball. If, when you make several depressions in the material with your fingers, it spreads and holds its shape, then the product is ready for creativity.
While kneading, you can add a little vegetable oil to the mixture, this will perfectly protect it from drying out and prevent it from sticking to your hands. However, it is important to know that if you add too much oil, then such modeling material will get very dirty, stick to your hands and take a very long time to dry after finishing the work. Ideally, for the above quantities of ingredients, it is enough to add two tablespoons.
If the description of the work involved in producing such a mass is not very clear to you, then you can always reinforce your knowledge with video tutorials; to do this, you just need to enter the phrase in one of the Internet search engines - “ how to make salt dough video" and you will be offered the necessary material.
How you can make salt dough - recipe number 2
To work you will need:
4 cups flour;
2 cups fine salt;
2 glasses of warm water;
Preparation:
For 10 minutes, you need to thoroughly knead the mass prepared on the basis of the above ingredients so that it becomes soft and elastic, without cracks and sticks to your hands.
If you are not going to do decorative modeling immediately after preparing the material, place it in a plastic bag and tie it, or in a container with a tight lid to prevent the product from drying out.
How to make salt dough correctly - recipe number 3
To work you will need:
2 cups wheat flour;
1 cup salt;
2/3 glass of water.
Cooking method.
The secret of this recipe is that the material is mixed not using cold water, as was described in the two previous recipes, but using boiling water.
First, you should bring the water to a boil and pour salt into it, then add flour and only after that knead it very stiff and hard.
Summing up this article, I would like to note that crafts made from salt dough are not only interesting fun, but also a very serious activity for the development of your baby. And for adults, this is a great opportunity to escape from the everyday hustle and bustle and spend leisure time with your family, doing something interesting and useful together. Which as a result will bring many fun and colorful moments into your home.
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A very interesting type of needlework is bioceramics, or otherwise salt dough.
There are many recipes for salt dough.
Recipe 1.
For simple figures:
200 g flour, 200 g salt 125 ml water.
Recipe 2.
Delicate salted 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 salted dough for rough figurines:
200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water
Recipe 4.
Classic recipe:
1) 150 g of water + 1 tbsp. Mix simple wallpaper glue and let the glue dissolve thoroughly;
2) 200 grams of flour + 200 grams of fine salt + 2 tablespoons (with top) of potato starch mixed separately;
3) combine everything + 2 tbsp. rast. oils
Recipe 5.
Also classic.
Pour 1 cup fine salt and 1 cup flour into a bowl and stir. 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, just like regular dough. Water can be replaced with starch jelly, then the mass will be much more plastic. Kissel is made like this: dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Heat another 1 cup of water in a small saucepan until it boils. Pour the starch solution into 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 pan 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 use a wooden spoon to transfer it to a smooth surface.
Let the dough cool. Knead the dough until it is soft and workable 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 spoons of wallpaper glue
Recipe 8.
For particularly durable products.
THE BEST RECIPE!!! There will be no problems with the product at all! This is a recipe from a master from Arbat (unfortunately I don’t know the details).
Instead of water and glue, add bustilate (it is liquid).
1 cup fine salt, 1 cup flour - mix. Add boostilate until the dough is kneaded! No water and no adding flour during the kneading process!
With the use of boostilate, toys do not become damp, do not deform when fired, do not break when dropped - they become stone! Dry over very low heat in a half-open oven.
I took Bustilat-3, its consistency is even thicker than sour cream, like pudding, so it’s a little difficult to knead the dough, but the result is simply wonderful!!! It cannot be compared with anything - neither wallpaper glue, nor PVA, etc. Costs 25 UAH. - 1.3 kg in a plastic jar.
Since I tried this recipe, I haven’t used any others!
Recipe 9.
Dough for air drying, not in the oven:
200 g flour, 200 g salt, 2 spoons of wallpaper glue, 125 ml water.
Recipe 10.
Air-dry or oven-dry dough that produces 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 container over low heat and stir. Once mixed evenly, 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 the oven is electric, then 75 degrees, you don’t have to open the door. Not in the microwave! It is better to put silver foil on the tray, because the black surface gives off heat more strongly and the figurine may crack. The slower it dries, the safer it will not crack. In the end, you can give it 200 degrees, then the protruding parts will bake and turn brown, this effect is aesthetic. If you do not have the opportunity to bake your product in the oven, be patient. On a radiator or in the sun, products (especially large ones) will dry no sooner than in a week. After firing or drying, dough products can be painted and varnished. For coloring, you can use acrylic paints, but it is best to use artistic gouache with a little PVA glue added. After drying, this mixture is slightly shiny and does not stain your hands. For varnishing, use acrylic varnish. It is water soluble, non-toxic and dries in 6-8 hours. You can also add coloring to the dough itself when preparing it, 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 bustilate. Any salt can be used, although more often coarsely ground.
If the dough is too soft, then proceed as follows: mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt at the bottom of a bowl. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then scrunch it up. Do this until the dough becomes more dense. Place the resulting mixture in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After this, you can sculpt from the dough. If you still have dough left after modeling, 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 reach several weeks. Drying outdoors is best done at room temperature. Remember: the thicker the product, the longer it will take. It is recommended to turn the product over for uniform drying, but if it has a convex three-dimensional ornament, then this is impossible. To ensure that the bottom dries 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 increasing the temperature, but not higher than 150 degrees. If the temperature is too high, the product may swell, sometimes even cracks appear. It is impossible to fix bulging crafts, and cracks are easy to cover up. To do this, dilute a little PVA glue, mix well and apply this mixture to the crack, then rub this mixture.
To be honest, I can’t dry items in the oven of my gas stove without deformation (((I air dry and use this excellent device http://www.site/users/yakusha/post226410282
Drying time in an 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, place salted dough figures on it and place in the oven to dry. To check whether the figures have dried well, you need to tap them with your finger. If the sound is muffled, then it needs to be dried further, and if it is loud, then it means the dough has dried out. Uniformly dried products are uniform in color without “damp” spots.
On the heating battery.
This method is convenient to use in winter, when the central heating radiators are well heated. Place the craft on foil or cloth and leave it on the radiator until completely dry.
To ensure that the crafts are well preserved, 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 matte varnish.
Handmade is a special type of art and creativity in which the author puts a piece of his soul and energy into his products, so it is highly valued. Even such seemingly child labor as making crafts from dough (also called bioceramics or testoplasty) has been popular among the peoples of Russia and all of Europe for centuries, and it pays off with interest.
Salt, flour and imagination
There is more than one known recipe for salt dough for making crafts. The craftswomen took the traditional set of components as a basis, and made their own adjustments through trial and error. The base may include various types of glue, petroleum jelly or hand cream, cream, potato starch, sunflower oil, glycerin. We’ll talk separately about what other tricks creative people go to in order to turn lumps of dough into fabulous masterpieces. Let's start with what recipes for salt dough for making crafts are especially relevant today.
A minimum of materials and financial costs are transformed in skillful hands into magnets, key holders, three-dimensional figures and entire compositions, depending on the skills and desires of the master. It will be interesting for children to come up with crafts made from fairly soft, pliable and uncomplicated material using available materials that can be found in any kitchen. Adults will help the little ones give vent to their imagination, contribute to the development of fine motor skills and imagination, and keep little creators busy with useful and good work.
Let's look at some recipes for salt dough for making crafts
1. Simple. Suitable for beginners.
To prepare the base you need:
- Equal amounts of flour and salt. Depending on the volume of material needed for the craft, you can take 200/300/500 grams of ingredients.
- You need 125/200/250 ml of water, respectively.
2. Entry level. We take the already known “simple” recipe, add 1-2 teaspoons of PVA glue to it. It will give strength.
3. Average level. Suitable for creating 3D crafts and plates. The base is quite rough and durable.
- Wheat flour – 200 gr.
- For the strength of the product, salt is required twice as much - 400 g.
- Water – 125 ml.
4. For jewelry parts.
- Flour – 300g.
- Salt – 200 gr.
- Water - half a glass.
- Wallpaper glue – 2 tbsp.
- Glycerin (sold at the pharmacy) – 4 tbsp.
5. For craftswomen with experience.
- 1 cup each of fine salt and flour. To stir thoroughly.
- Water is excluded, and bustilate is taken instead.
The recipe is excellent, but beginners are unlikely to be able to work with it due to the fact that kneading the base is difficult. But compositions based on bustilate have a lot of advantages: they do not break, do not become damp, and do not crack when fired.
You will also need:
- Tea spoon.
- Measuring cup (you can use a kitchen scale or measure the ingredients by eye).
- Plastic bag or cling film.
- Deep plate or bowl.
- Cutting board.
- Rolling pin.
- Any decorative elements. Buttons, cookie cutters, combs, paper clips, a fork - all this may be needed to give the dough a relief.
Secrets of craftswomen
Although the recipes are simple, there are some tricks and nuances noted by experienced masters. For example, you need to use wheat flour, which does not contain impurities, so that the parts do not deform during drying.
Coarse or iodized salt will most likely give the effect of a “fur coat” that covers the outer walls of houses. If you are not going to make a tiny bioceramic house, it is better to use fine salt for the composition. This product is not dissolved in water, but mixed with flour, and only then cold water is added to the resulting mixture.
For greater strength, instead of water (or with a small amount of it), use wallpaper glue, PVA or bustilate. But in this case, it is difficult to mix the base, so beginners should refrain from such recipes for now.
If you add a spoonful of vegetable oil or potato starch, the dough will be more pliable and pliable, but may crumble. This also needs to be taken into account in your work.
The workpiece should be elastic, dense, softer in consistency than plasticine, and should not stick to your hands, crumble, or contain lumps. The longer you knead the mixture, the better and more uniform it will be. After this, it is “sent” to the refrigerator for 2-3 hours, wrapped in plastic. Leftover material can also be stored at low temperatures, but not more than a month.
In the absence of special scales or a measuring cup, it is important to understand: the main components are different in volume, if we take 1 glass of salt, then 2 glasses of flour.
Dry it properly
Known 4 ways to dry salty food dough so that the craft lasted a long time : in the air, on a battery, in the oven or a combined method. It is selected depending on the thickness of the work, the recipe used to prepare the base and the presence of convex parts in the composition.
Air drying salt dough suitable when there are free days, or even weeks, available. It is recommended to turn flat compositions over to ensure uniform evaporation of moisture, but volumetric or multi-layer compositions cannot be turned over without injuring them.
Things will go much faster in the oven. Before placing the work in a gas oven, you need to air dry it for 2-3 days. Firing is carried out at a temperature of 50 degrees; it is not recommended to increase it in order to eliminate the risk of swelling of the dough and the appearance of cracks.
In an electric oven, the figures are fired from half an hour at a temperature of 150 degrees, to two hours at 50-75 degrees, and it is recommended to keep the door ajar. Before firing the dough, cover the baking sheet with food foil.
The base is ready for coloring when there are no damp spots on its front and back sides, and when you tap with a finger, a ringing sound is heard, not a dull sound.
Drying on the battery – the process is controversial, because with the wrong approach the work will be hopelessly damaged, deformed and bursting. It is impossible to dry salt dough evenly on Soviet-type batteries; their surface is uneven. Modern radiators are flat, which is why this type of drying finds admirers. Unevenness is smoothed out with paper, cloth or foil placed under the work.
Combined drying involves both an “open” method of exposure to sunlight and firing.
It is important to remember: the product is not baked, but rather dried, and although high processing temperatures for salted dough are allowed, it is better to avoid it, and do not close the oven door tightly!
The final stage of creating salt dough for sculpting crafts
If you have done everything correctly, then you can proceed to the last stage of work - painting, varnishing and attaching the ties on which our decorative composition will be attached to the wall.
You can tint the craft both while mixing the base and after giving it strength. In the first case, gouache paints, food coloring or natural coffee, cocoa, and beet juice are added to the water while preparing the mixture. This is done in the case when the entire base should be painted the same color. You can divide the total mass into several separate parts, paint them in different colors, and sculpt them from multi-colored pieces. In the second, they paint the finished work.
Salt dough is absolutely unpretentious; it can be painted homogeneously even with acrylic, oil or construction paints. Jewelry details can be emphasized with ink, ink, felt-tip pen or marker.
The colors on the finished product will be brighter if you varnish it before painting. If this is done afterwards, the work will be protected from moisture by a reliable “shield”. Do you like glitter? Add a little PVA to the varnish. I do not like? Use matte varnish.
Varnish to prevent fading of shades using liquid varnish. Its only “minus” is that it gets inside the base, so the varnishing process must be repeated several times, taking breaks for it to dry. If you take a thick transparent varnish or aerosol, then 1 use will be enough.
Step-by-step master class on salt dough recipe No. 2 “Octopus” key holder
Let's take 2 containers for bulk materials, 1 for water, and another 1 deep plate or bowl in which we will knead the base. I use items from a coffee set, they are almost “doll” size, but we don’t need them for this idea a large number of test.
Take 1 cup of fine “Extra” salt and 2 cups of wheat flour. Mix well.
Add water. Knead the dough until smooth, making sure there are no lumps.
The finished mass is pliable, dense, pleasant to the touch. Knead it well in your hand for 10-15 minutes. Place in a bag and put in the refrigerator for 3 hours (more is possible).
We prepare a rolling pin, a fork for decorating the edge, a knife, a teaspoon. We divide the mass into 2 parts: the first is the base to which we will attach the volumetric parts, the second is the material for these parts.
Using your fingers, roll out the “sausages” on a hard horizontal surface. This is our main part; the tentacles and umbrella will be made from it. We sculpt one circle (the character’s face). We transfer the details to the “background”. Use a fork to frame the edges of the composition.
We untwist the ballpoint pen and use the frame to make 4 holes in the base. 2 – for keys, 2 – for strings. Transfer the dough to a baking sheet and place in the oven for 2 hours at 50 degrees.
The basic “working recipe” for simple crafts:
For 1 cup of flour, take half a glass of salt and half a glass of water. At the same time, we take the same number of grams of flour and salt by weight, but the flour is larger in volume, which is why it comes out to half a glass of salt per glass of flour.
Salt dough recipe for thin parts:
To the basic working recipe, add a tablespoon of starch, or wallpaper glue, or PVA glue, and the wallpaper glue must first be diluted with water in a standard proportion.
Recipe for strong salt dough for large crafts:
A glass of flour, a glass of salt, half a glass of water.
Dough recipe for thin parts:
One and a half glasses of flour, half a glass of salt, 4 tablespoons of glycerin, sold in pharmacies, 2 tablespoons of wallpaper glue (previously diluted with water). The best way to mix the mass is with a mixer - it’s both quick and the composition is successful.
How to get colored dough:
Salt dough can be perfectly tinted with watercolors, food coloring, and gouache. If you add cocoa, you can get a gorgeous chocolate color. Please note that when the product dries, the color will become slightly lighter and less bright, so be sure to varnish the product after drying - the color will become brighter and more saturated.
How to knead flour
You cannot take flour with additives - baking powder and yeast, so be sure to read the ingredients! Just plain flour, otherwise it will turn out to be a cake? It will rise and there will be a bun.
Take fine salt, extra salt. The grains quickly dissolve and fit perfectly into the flour. Rock salt does not dissolve well and may produce grains. First, mix the salt and flour, and then add water!
Store the kneaded dough in a plastic bag so that there is no access to air. In the air, the dough becomes crusty, but this should not be allowed. You should also remove the play dough from the bag in parts in order to work with fresh material.
Tools for working with salt dough
A rolling pin is for rolling out dough, a knife is for cutting off the required pieces of dough, a comb is good for making relief patterns, a gel pen refill is convenient for squeezing out holes in the dough.
Stamps can be made from anything you can get your hands on. For example, some buttons, burlap, molds from children's sets for playing in the sand, handles of forks and knives from sets. The scope for creativity is limited only by your imagination and the availability of things in the house.
How to properly dry salt dough crafts
1 Set the oven to the lowest temperature.
2 if the temperature is not regulated, then reduce the heat to a minimum and open the oven door slightly (for gas stoves)
3 Place the product in a cold oven; heating should occur gradually, without sudden changes. In the same way, the product should cool inside the oven after it is turned off.
4 Some masters recommend drying in stages, taking breaks between drying. It is believed that this will make the product stronger. For example, it dries in the oven for an hour, dries on its own for a day, then we turn on the oven again and dry it for another hour, then it dries again for a day at room temperature.
5 The time required to dry a particular product depends on the mass of flour and the size of the craft.
Painting and varnishing
You can take any paints, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, whatever is closest to you, use it. It is best to coat the paint on top with acrylic varnish, but water-based construction varnish for wooden surfaces will also work.
If the product is swollen or cracked
If it's swollen, that means the wrong flour was taken. The best option is flour without any additives. For better adhesion of flour, you can add rye flour to wheat flour, in a ratio of 1 to 1, or 50 grams of starch, this will give the dough the necessary plasticity. You can also add a tablespoon of PVA construction glue to the dough.
If it's cracked, which means the abalone process was not carried out according to technology. Ideally, it is best if the product dries at room temperature, on its own, without any ovens. But in this case, the drying time can be more than a week. We don’t want to wait, so we can dry it at a minimum temperature in the oven, if it’s electric. Or with the door ajar, on minimum gas, if it is gas. At the same time, it is also important to turn the product over so that it dries evenly. Every hour and a half you need to turn the dough craft over during the drying process, otherwise it may crack.
The craft should be painted after it has completely dried., otherwise the paint may also crack due to the movement of the dough, which is not completely dried.
If something falls off, then glue it with PVA construction glue. Holds up perfectly!
These are all the basic secrets of kneading salt dough. for crafts. Otherwise, experience will come with each subsequent product. Create and delight the world with your handmade products!
Idea - salt dough candlestick
For a very long time I lost sight of such needlework as modeling from salt dough. And this despite the fact that I was always interested in both ceramics and polymer clay (plastic), but I avoided salt dough. Then somehow information came from different sides and I even tried to sculpt myself. I liked it, the only thing that bothered me was that the finished product cannot be dried instantly. However, salt dough provided a lot of opportunities for making various interior items - not only decorative, but also utilitarian.
If you like to create products for the home and interior, then you should definitely try making crafts from salt dough too! For example, you can use it to make a candlestick like this for a tea candle, or you can add something of your own to the design of the candlestick - painting or decoration.
Salt dough infographic for beginners
Salt dough is simply a unique material for those who love to sculpt. You can use it to make many beautiful things for your home: candlesticks, panels, souvenirs, everyday items. You may find it difficult to make ceramics from clay, but salt dough is much easier to work with!
Crafts made from salt dough - frog
For lovers of modeling from salt dough: a very good master class from Svetlana Kanochkina.
So, how to make such a cute frog (looks like ceramic). I really want to learn this sculpting technique. So far I have only made a candlestick and a fish, and even then, the tail of the fish fell off during the drying process.
We form the torso.
We pay attention to detail.
The frog is still in “disassembled” form.
We glue all parts of the craft with water mixed with PVA glue.
The porous skin can be formed with a toothpick.
We made such a beautiful frog craft made from salt dough. You can do it together with your child.
The roots of this type of creativity lie at the origins of Slavic culture. And more recently, the hobby has become popular again, and not in vain. After all, sculpting from salt dough is a pleasure, and it is accessible to many. The components for such crafts do not need to be purchased or prepared from expensive ingredients. Every home has salt, flour, and butter. This material is much more flexible and durable than gypsum and especially plasticine. You will learn how to make salt dough for crafts below.
Bioceramics
In modern language, the art of modeling dough is called testoplasty or bioceramics. But no matter what name the salt dough crafts have, they are always beautiful! The creation of a new figurine always becomes an event, because when making them, the craftsmen put effort and soul into them. The plastic material allows you to create products of any complexity, sometimes even complete masterpieces. In addition, over time, crafts do not deteriorate or change, and salt protects them from pests.
Its current popularity is growing, and this hobby has attracted the interest of both children and adults. School circles have become involved in the fascination with this ancient form of art due to its accessibility and the possibility of endless embodiment of ideas. Thematic classes are held in kindergartens, and experienced craftsmen create picturesque paintings and realistic three-dimensional figures for home decor.
Creativity
To create something yourself, you need a creative mood, an idea, and the material itself. On the Internet, many sites are full of ready-made works, master classes, collections of photographs on bioceramics, and write how to make salt dough for crafts. Therefore, you won’t need much effort to get inspired.
From the dough you can create any objects, figures, fruits, vegetables, refrigerator magnets and much more. A three-dimensional still life in real size, consisting of a saucer and some fruits that will be easy to mold and decorate even for a child, will look realistic. may include a composition of a rowan sprig created from real pine needles and red dough balls. All this can be arranged in the form of a painting or bas-relief to decorate the walls. It remains to find out for crafts. To prepare it, the ingredients are mixed, and after the toy is made, it is baked.
How to do
You can make salted dough for crafts yourself. To do this, you need to mix all the ingredients and put it on the stove or in the microwave. But there is a method that does not require heat treatment; it is usually used for making large figures when a lot of material is needed. After thorough kneading, they begin to sculpt crafts from salt dough. How to make the dough and which method to choose does not matter, the main thing is that it is thick and elastic, much like for dumplings. The hot cooking option is more flexible and dries better, but it is also a little more difficult to do.
How to make salt dough for crafts? Brewing recipe:
- 100 g wheat flour;
- 50 g salt;
- 1 tsp. cream;
- ½ tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- 150 ml water;
- a few drops of food coloring.
Mix flour, salt, cream and butter in a bowl. Dilute the food coloring in water and pour the resulting solution into the flour, avoiding the formation of lumps.
Place the container over low heat, stirring constantly. As it heats, the batter will turn into a thick mass. When it has completely thickened, remove from heat and place on the table. Knead the dough until it becomes soft and suitable for modeling. The same can be done in a microwave oven. To do this, place the bowl with the dough inside at full power (650 W) for one minute. When the time is up, remove to stir, then put back inside. Watch for a while until the dough begins to rise from the bowl. Remove the container from the microwave and wait about three minutes until the salt dough preparation thickens. It’s now clear how to make the dough, all you have to do is knead it as in the first case.
Second option:
- 150 g flour;
- 150 g salt;
- ½ tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- 100 g of water.
Mix the ingredients and knead the elastic material in the same way as making salted choux pastry for crafts. To make sculpting easy, it is recommended to prepare the material the day before the planned work. You need to store it in a plastic bag on the refrigerator shelf, and it does not spoil for quite a long time.
Coloring salt dough
If you want to tint the salt dough, then during the cooking process, drop a few drops of food coloring of the desired color into the water. It should be taken into account that after baking the colors will lighten, but if you varnish the product, the shade will become saturated again.
To make fragile relief crafts, add 20 grams of PVA glue and a little potato starch to the dough.
Painting
You don’t have to color the dough during the cooking process, but decorate the already sculpted and baked figure. You can use watercolor, gouache, acrylic paints. Many craftswomen even adapt nail polishes. The finishing touches can be drawn on or highlighted with regular felt-tip pens. Please note that painting temporarily softens the surface of the figurine. Therefore, after registration, let the finished copies dry a little more in the air or in the oven.
What do you need for work?
To sculpt the figures you will need a working tool, often they are ordinary everyday objects. You can use a knife, rolling pin, comb, pen rods, which are convenient for making various holes. Relief knives and children's sets of ready-made molds for working with plasticine are well suited. Everything that is in the house can also be useful. Beads, lace, forks, soles of children's shoes, buttons, designer parts - what can be used to make an imprint on a product.
Drying
You can dry the finished products in the fresh air, but this usually takes a long time, so this is often done in the oven at the lowest temperature, changing the sides of the figures from time to time. Drying time depends on the size of the crafts. Sometimes products are slightly browned to give a natural color, for example, Christmas tree gingerbread cookies, people, pies for decoration.
Flowers
You can start your creativity by making flowers, especially women will like it. Moreover, you already know how to make salt dough for crafts. Making daisies is very easy. Petals can be made by rolling out small strips lengthwise. And decorate the middle with a flattened ball, to which the resulting petals are attached from below. You can take the twigs from a real thuja - they are so similar to chamomile leaves, and also do not spoil. Place the composition in a basket, also made by yourself. It is woven from long strips of the same material as flowers. After everything is dry, you can start painting.
Cats
Cat lovers can practice different variations of funny cats like in the photo. In general, this topic is loved by all adults and children; these animals cannot help but inspire. You can even make a red cat out of salt dough in a primitive way, it will still look wonderful. And a cat created believably is, of course, a job for more experienced craftswomen.
Creating figures from salt dough is not just fun, but also painstaking work that requires perseverance and concentration. Children make crafts from salt dough; the activity is useful for them because it develops not only fine motor skills, but also creative thinking, artistic taste and many other positive qualities.
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