Modeling figures from salt dough or dough plastic is a very exciting activity that does not require special skills or special financial investments. Salt, water and flour are the main ingredients for this type of needlework. The dough turns out soft and pliable, allowing even beginners to make wonderful crafts.
First, you can sculpt the simplest figures, then try to make more complex products: small souvenirs, dolls and even three-dimensional paintings. By gaining a little experience and using your creative imagination, you can make real works of art! In addition, by doing various crafts with your children, you will not only teach them creative work and develop fine motor skills, but also enjoy precious minutes of communication.
Our master class and several interesting ideas will help you complete simple crafts, and the necessary tips will make this creative process as fruitful and exciting as possible.
There are quite a lot of recipes for modeling salt dough. Depending on the scale of the crafts, salt, flour and water are mixed in different proportions, and, among other things, additional ingredients are added to the dough: glycerin, glue, vegetable oil, starch and even hand cream. For beginners, it is recommended to make the dough according to the classic recipe. To do this, mix flour and salt in equal proportions with the gradual addition of cold water. For example, for 200 g of salt and 200 g of flour you will need 125 g of water.
Advice for beginners!
- Flour should be regular rye or wheat flour without adding baking powder or other ingredients.
- It is best to take fine-grained salt and in no case iodized. To better dissolve the salt, some needlewomen add a little water to it before mixing it with flour.
- To ensure that the dough is homogeneous, it is recommended to use a mixer.
- To please children during the modeling process and to add color to the product, you can add food coloring to the dough.
- For better adhesion of individual parts of the craft to each other, moisten them with a brush.
- It is best to dry the product in an oven preheated to 50-60 degrees. Depending on the size of the craft, this procedure may take about 1 hour or more.
Master class on making mukosolek
In addition to flour, water and salt, the following equipment will be needed for the master class:
- modeling board;
- small rolling pin;
- small knife;
- a toothpick or ballpoint pen for small holes and patterns;
- water container;
- brush and paints;
- coating varnish.
Depending on what kind of figures you will make, you may need cookie cutters, beads, buttons, and leaves of different shapes to create impressions.
- Roll out the prepared salt dough into a layer half a centimeter thick.
- Using cookie cutters, cut out the desired number of shapes. Using a toothpick or a pen refill, make holes in the figures in order to thread ribbon loops through them. Decorate crafts using beads, buttons, or tree leaves as stamps.
- Preheat the oven, line the bottom of a baking sheet with tracing paper or special baking paper.
- Place the figures on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until the dough hardens.
- Place the mucosols on a flat surface and paint with colors of your choice.
- To add shine to finished products, coat them with varnish.
Flour pickles can be made using a small knife, cutting out all kinds of elements. For example, you can make a hanging house for children for the New Year tree or a funny cat with rope paws. A salty pancake can make a cute owl if you fold its three edges and cut out eyes and a nose.
The materials and equipment needed to create such a funny lamb will be the same as in the previous master class.
- Knead the dough according to the classic recipe and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Make 4 small balls from the dough for future lamb legs.
- To make the body, roll a sheet of foil into a ball and cover it with a salted dough pancake. Place the resulting ball on the legs.
- Make a lamb's head, horns, ears and eyes from the dough. Use small balls of dough to form the fur of the toy.
- Dry the salted dough lamb in the oven for 2.5-3 hours, and then let it cool for 30-40 minutes.
- Paint and varnish the toy.
Modeling three-dimensional panels and paintings from salt dough
As a rule, salt dough is used for paintings according to the following recipe: one glass each of salt and flour, 1 tbsp. water. For beginners, it is best to use a small number of salted figures in the painting, decorating the rest of the space with decorative materials. It is best to make salted parts on foil so that their back surface is perfectly flat and easily glued to the field of the picture.
Possible problems for beginners when making crafts from salt dough
- After painting, the products cracked.
- Clean the craft with sandpaper, dry it in fresh air and paint it again.
- The crafts cracked due to the large thickness.
- Remove excess dough from the back. If the figure is large, it needs to be turned over periodically when drying.
- If a part breaks off from the toy, glue it together with PVA glue or decorate it with a suitable decoration.
You can make a huge number of crafts from salt dough, for example: flowers, animals, various figures, inscriptions, numbers, toys, paintings and whatever you want! Modeling from salt dough is called bioceramics. The advantage of salt dough is that it is convenient to work with, this material is absolutely harmless and crafts made from it will delight you for several years. In this article we will look at how to make crafts from salt dough with your own hands.
You will need: a glass of wheat flour, a glass of extra salt, half a glass of cold water, a bowl.
Recipe
The finished salted dough should not stick to your hands or crumble. It should be cool and easy to sculpt. I recommend watching the video master class!
There are two most common ways to dry salt dough. The first method: the finished craft will dry on its own. The main thing is that it should not be exposed to direct sunlight, otherwise it will crack. The craft can be placed on a flat surface and wait a few days. Second method: dry the finished craft in the oven for 3 to 6 hours (depending on the size of the craft). Drying occurs in batches with breaks. One approach is 1-2 hours. For quick drying in one go, set the oven to 75-100 degrees, and then the craft will dry in an hour. At a temperature of 120 degrees, the craft will dry in 30 minutes, but it is better to dry it naturally.
There are two most common ways to color salt dough. The first method: after drying, paint the finished craft with acrylic paints or gouache using a brush. Second method: food coloring is diluted in water, then added while preparing the dough. When the craft is completely painted and dried, it must be coated with transparent manicure or furniture varnish in 2-3 layers. Each layer must dry before applying the next. This way the craft will last for a long time.
You will need: colored salt dough, stack, clear manicure polish, toothpick.
Master Class
The salt dough star is ready!
Salt dough caterpillar
You will need: colored dough, knife, pva glue, toothpick, pendant, clear manicure polish.
Master Class
- Roll out the sausage.
- Cut it into 6 equal parts.
- Roll into balls.
- Glue 5 balls together.
- Glue the head.
- Make a nose and eyes, then glue them on.
- Poke a toothpick into the hanging area.
- Dry the craft.
- Attach the pendant.
The salt dough caterpillar is ready!
Salt dough apple
You will need:
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- Make half an apple, make the inside flat, pressing it onto a flat surface.
- Make a thin flat center and glue it to the main part.
- Roll 6 seeds and a stick, then glue to the apple.
- Blind the leaves, then glue them.
- Dry the craft.
- Apply varnish and wait until completely dry.
The salted dough apple is ready!
Salt dough elephant
You will need: colored salt dough, pva glue, clear manicure polish.
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- Make the elephant's body by rolling an elongated ball.
- Make 4 legs in the shape of plump sausages.
- Make a proboscis.
- Make the elephant's ears in this way: roll out 2 flat cakes, glue flat cakes of the same shape of a smaller size and a different color to them.
- Make a small ponytail.
- Blind your eyes.
- Assemble the elephant in the following sequence: glue the legs to the body, then glue the proboscis, then the ears, eyes and tail.
- Dry the craft.
- Apply varnish and wait until completely dry.
The salt dough elephant is ready!
You will need: salt dough, foil, a candy bowl or similar plastic container, gouache, a brush, clear manicure polish, a modeling board, a knife or a stack.
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You will need: salt dough, nail scissors, PVA glue, acrylic paints or gouache, manicure brush.
Master Class
Salt dough hedgehog is ready!
Owl (eagle owl) made from salt dough
You will need: salt dough, pva glue, nail file, manicure scissors, acrylic paints or gouache, brush, wooden board with a pendant, clear manicure varnish.
Master Class
The salt dough owl is ready!
You will need: salted dough, the base on which the craft will be attached, for example, a board or plate, a glass or a knife, a sheet of paper, a simple pencil, a garlic press, a rolling pin, pva glue, acrylic paints or gouache, a brush, clear manicure polish, cloves.
Master Class
Salted dough fruit basket is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!
You will need: salt dough, knife, rolling pin, simple pencil, sheet of paper, sandpaper, acrylic paints or gouache, brush, transparent manicure varnish, glue gun or pva, base for crafts, for example: a board with a frame, transparent manicure varnish.
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Salt dough pencil
You will need: water, flour, extra salt, cardboard jar for the frame, PVA glue, scissors, a piece of decorative rope or corrugated paper, gouache, brush, button, stacks, acrylic varnish for crafts, toothbrush.
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- Knead the salted dough in this way: add a glass of flour, a glass of salt, add water, then knead until the desired consistency of the dough. Separate part of the dough, add beige gouache, then knead.
- Roll out the cake to a thickness of 10-15 mm.
- Apply PVA glue to the outer rim of the jar and wrap it with dough. Cut off the excess with a stack and smooth the joints with a damp brush.
- Create a small dotted texture with a toothbrush on the surface of the dough.
- Knead the brown dough, roll it into a flat cake 10-15mm thick.
- Cut a 5cm wide strip of brown pastry and glue it to the bottom of the jar.
- Make 2 large owl eye bases from white dough, then glue them on.
- Make a beak out of brown dough and glue it on.
- Make eyes from turquoise dough and glue them on.
- Roll out 8 strips of pink dough, twist them into 4 flagella and make a bow, then leave it to dry for 2 hours.
- Make droplet-shaped owl wings using brown dough, then glue them on.
- Weave ropes of beige dough and glue them onto the neck of the jar.
- Roll out a sausage from white dough, draw the texture of the lace with a stack and glue it as a collar under the beak.
- Place the craft in a warm place for a day.
- Paint the bottom and wings with brown gouache and decorate with white dots.
- Draw the pupils and eyelashes with black gouache, wait until the paint dries, then paint white highlights on the eyes.
- Glue a pink bow above the wing.
- Glue a button with a bow from a corrugated strip onto the lace.
- Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries completely.
The salt dough pencil is ready!
Salt dough dachshund
You will need: salt dough, simple pencil, scissors, cardboard, paints, brush, rope, toothpick, foam sponge, clear varnish, PVA glue.
Master Class
The salt dough dachshund is ready!
Boletus mushroom made from salt dough
You will need: salt dough, light bulb, paints, brush, foil, cardboard, masking tape, superglue, PVA glue, paper napkins, clear varnish, stack.
Master Class
Boletus mushroom made from salt dough is ready! I recommend watching this video!
Funny salt dough pigs
You will need: salt dough, paints, brush, foam sponge, stack, thin rope, toothpick, black gel pen, PVA glue.
Master Class
Funny salt dough pigs are ready! I recommend watching this video!
You will need: salt dough, baking sheet, rolling pin, knife, sheet of paper, acrylic paints, brush, ribbon, water, shoehorn, pencil, sandpaper, clear manicure polish.
Master Class
Today it is very useful to work with children and teach them something new. Caring mothers and fathers draw with their children, make interesting crafts from cardboard and plasticine, and also offer their children more interesting activities. If you and your child want to spend your free time with interest, then invite him to make crafts from salt dough with his own hands. And our article will help you with this. Here you will find a description and photo step by step for children.
Preparing the dough
Before talking about crafts made from puff pastry, you need to prepare the material for modeling. Therefore, first of all, it’s worth telling you the recipe for puff pastry for crafts. It is important to note that the dough for crafts is easy to make yourself. To prepare it you will need: fine salt, flour, water, citric acid, vegetable oil.
- To obtain the material, you should mix: a glass of flour with half a glass of salt. You need to add a couple of teaspoons of citric acid here.
- All ingredients are poured into a saucepan and a tablespoon of vegetable oil is added there.
- The mixture is placed on medium heat. Water must be added gradually. Also, do not forget to stir the whole mass. You should spend about half a glass of water.
- The mass should become one lump and fall away from the walls. At this stage, the pan needs to be removed from the heat.
- Prepare a board and lightly dust it with flour. Then we take the mass out of the pan and place it on this board. After that, you just need to knead the dough with your hands.
On a note! In order to make colored dough, dry food coloring is first diluted in water. You can also add gouache to the finished dough and knead everything thoroughly.
For the work to go well, you need to store the dough correctly. After production, it is placed in a separate bag. You can also put it in a container or wrap it in cling film.
On a note! If the dough is wet, then flour is added to it. If, on the contrary, it is dry, then add a few drops of water to it.
As you can see, the process of creating dough crafts is quite serious. And here everything depends on the quality of the material. Some tips given here below will allow you to prepare high-quality material from which you can make excellent crafts.
- So, if you make the dough a more liquid consistency, then it can be spread like butter on the base of the craft. For example, this way you can imitate chocolate icing for a cake.
- If you made food, it should be the same size as a plastic game plate. In general, it should fit in them.
- Use a brush to hold the pieces of puff pastry together.
- If you are making food for dolls, then the products must have exactly the same color as the original.
- A puff pastry craft can be coated with clear varnish. As a result of this action, the craft will not darken in the future.
How to dry figurines.
Crafts made from puff pastry can be dried in two ways.
Use air. In this case, the product is laid on a flat and smooth surface. It will take several days to dry. After the craft has dried on one side, turn it over and let the other side dry. So the craft should dry on all sides.
Use oven. In this situation, the oven warms up well. Baking paper is placed on a baking sheet, and the craft itself is placed on it. The baking tray with the crafts is placed in the oven and then it is turned off. There is no need to open the oven until the toys are dry. Crafts can be baked at a temperature of +100 degrees. But you need to watch them so that they don’t burn.
On a note! The described methods of drying crafts can be combined. For example, you can dry it in the oven, and then put the craft at room temperature to dry. Then you can put it in the oven again and return to room temperature.
If the craft contains beads and seed beads, then it should not be dried in the oven.
Crafts from puff pastry for the New Year
Well, the time has come to offer you crafts made from puff pastry. In addition to the description, you can find their photos in this article. So, you can make toys for the New Year from puff pastry.
Progress:
- Dough is prepared for modeling. You can use dough of different colors, or use uncolored dough.
- The dough is rolled out into a flat cake and figures are squeezed out of it using a cookie cutter.
- In order for the toy to be hung from the Christmas tree, a hole must be made using a cocktail straw.
- If you used colored dough, you can decorate it the way your child likes. You can stick puff pastry balls of different colors and make a garland. You can also decorate the toy with white snow.
- If unpainted dough was used, it is first dried and then painted.
- Be sure to dry the dough toy (you can do this in the oven), and then thread a string through the hole.
You can make many holes in completely different shaped figures. After which, the product must be dried and hung.
You can stick beads and beads into the figures. These crafts should be dried at room temperature. 
To decorate puff pastry figures, you can use beautiful ropes or ribbons.
To make products for decorating a Christmas tree made from puff pastry look unusual and bright, after drying, you need to apply PVA glue to them and sprinkle glitter on top. 
Puff pastry makes very beautiful snowflakes. To create them, you will need uncolored dough, which, after drying, is colored with a permanent marker. 
A mitten-shaped figure is cut out of a piece of puff pastry. A homemade button is made from the dough itself, which is attached to the mitten. Also attach a colored ribbon to the mitten. Place the toy in the oven to dry, and then attach a string to it. 
You can imprint your baby's hand on a piece of dough. Then paint Santa Claus in the palm of your hand.
If you don't tinker a lot, you can make another Santa Claus figurine. To create a beard in this case, use a garlic press.
Make these toys from brown dough. Don't forget to make a hole for the ribbon.
How to make a New Year's candle from puff pastry.
To create a New Year's candle, you should prepare: dough for working in various shades, a cylinder of paper towels, red and yellow napkins.
Progress:
- So, the child independently rolls sausages from the dough.
- These sausages are stuck around a cardboard cylinder.
- After which, the base is decorated with balls of different colors.
- You can also cover the cylinder with one color and then decorate it as you wish.
- To simulate a candle flame, use yellow and red napkins.
Making a Christmas tree from dough.
In this article we describe crafts made from puff pastry. Here you can find their creation step by step.
- So, in order to make a Christmas tree, you must first make a blank. In this case, use milk or juice packaging.
- The top of the package is first cut off. Then the box is cut on the sides and opened.
- All excess part is cut off from the rectangles of the box. Only what resembles isosceles triangles should remain. After which the cardboard base should be glued together.
- At the next stage, the child can start decorating it. At the beginning, the workpiece is covered with green dough. Then you can decorate the tree with dough balls and other New Year's decorations that will be created from the dough itself.
Easter crafts made from puff pastry
As mentioned above, completely different products can be made from puff pastry. Even for Easter you can make a lot of interesting things.
For example, you can make Easter eggs and even an Easter bunny.
An excellent option for crafts made from dough is a stand for Easter eggs, which can be a gift or decor for an Easter feast. 
How to make an Easter egg from puff pastry.
Even the smallest child can make this craft.
So, a piece of dough is taken, from which a figurine resembling an egg is molded.
After which, this figurine is decorated according to your wishes. It is important to note that in this case you can fantasize. All sorts of experiments are also welcome.
We make a stand for eggs from dough.
The stand, like other crafts, is very easy to make. You will need: a cardboard cylinder, paint and the dough itself.
Progress:
- This work uses uncolored dough. It is attached to a circle of cardboard, which is cut out from under the cylinder.
- For this element it is necessary to mold: a head, a tail and other parts.
- The stand is covered with pieces of dough on all sides.
- Then start decorating the crafts. Use your preferences and rely on your imagination.
- It is recommended to coat the finished craft with colorless varnish.
Crafts from puff pastry for February 14
Of course, everyone associates the Valentine's Day holiday with a heart. Therefore, you can make many different and cute hearts from puff pastry.
If you have patience, you can decorate the craft with a rose.
You can also make a funny heart keychain that has legs.
You can also make heart couples from the dough very quickly and easily.
If you make a huge number of dough hearts, you can form them into a garland, which will be an excellent decoration for the room.
Making a photo frame from dough.
We will have a photo frame in the shape of a heart. The frame can be made bright and decorated in a romantic style. You must insert a piece of cardboard on the back side.
With a little work, you can end up with a cute love fish.
Crafts for March 8
Creating crafts from puff pastry is incredibly enjoyable. A video and some tips can help you create them.
For mothers, sisters, grandmothers and other female acquaintances, you can make keychains in the shape of flowers. You can use both colored and uncolored dough.
You can make a cute candlestick from the dough as a gift.
You can make medals with your children. Let them choose their own decoration options.
You and your child can make figure eights from the dough and decorate them the way you want.
You can make a pendant from the dough and decorate it with flowers and leaves. When the craft is dry, you need to paint it.
Crafts for February 23
If you take cardboard, a piece of puff pastry and your imagination, you can get a wonderful craft.
You can make a wonderful medal for your dad or grandfather.
How to make an airplane from dough.
The next wonderful gift is very simple to make.
Progress:
- First, the base for the figurine is rolled up, which will serve as the body.
- One side of the base is folded over. This place will be the tail of the craft. It is also worth sculpting other parts that are attached to the craft.
- At the next stage, the fender liners and wheels are rolled off.
- Attach all parts to the body. But before joining, coat the parts with water using a brush.
- The wings are attached to the plane using toothpicks.
- A propeller is also made using a toothpick and puff pastry.
- Now the craft should dry at room temperature. After which you can paint it.
Crafts from dough for Maslenitsa
Maslenitsa is considered an ancient holiday, which has its own traditions and symbols. Crafts made from dough for Maslenitsa are varied. You have a choice.
The smallest children can make a sun.
And older kids can try to make a more complicated version.
A child can make pancakes from puff pastry.
You can also make funny keychains.
Other puff pastry crafts
Beads.
Our article contains crafts made from puff pastry. Here is a photo with instructions for making them. Making such crafts is very pleasant and this activity can be a real pleasure.
Progress:
- To create beads you will need multi-colored dough.
- Roll the dough into balls. They must be the same size. Pierce the center of the ball with a toothpick.
- They should now dry at room temperature. They must be turned over during the drying process.
- When the balls are dry, remove the toothpick.
- The resulting beads must be put on a ribbon or lace.
Puff pastry star.
- First, roll out a piece of dough colored in any color into a layer. Its thickness should be 1 cm.
- Using a cookie cutter, cut out a star.
- The corners are smeared with a wet finger using gentle movements.
- Now all that remains is to decorate the figurine.
Dough caterpillar.
- Take green dough and roll it into a sausage.
- Cut it into equal parts and roll it into balls of equal size.
- Blind the balls together, and moisten the joint with water.
- Make a face for the caterpillar.
- All that remains is to pierce the place where the loop will be attached with a needle.
Dough apple.
- Making an apple is very simple. Take a ball of dough and roll it out into the shape of half an apple. In order to get an even cut, you need to attach the craft to a flat surface.
- Add a strip of white dough to the apple. This is the middle of the apple.
- Roll out the seeds and tail from the brown dough. Make a leaf out of green.
- Now all that remains is to assemble the figurine and dry it thoroughly.
How to make a hedgehog from puff pastry?
- To create this craft you will need unpainted dough. The head and body of a hedgehog are formed from it.
- It is also worth making a nose and eyes. In this case, a pot of pepper or black dough will do.
- Using nail scissors, cut the dough. The result should be needles. Slightly lift them up. The second row is cut in a checkerboard pattern. This must be done to the end.
Animal creation workshops
Our huge article is a treasure trove of useful information. If you read ours carefully, you realized that you can make anything from puff pastry. And the following master classes should clearly explain to you the process of creating other crafts.
Finally
Be sure to do something interesting with your child. Remember that such an activity can bring you positive emotions and joy.
Salt dough is a unique educational material for children, because with its help you can not only make beautiful crafts, but also develop fine motor skills in a 5-6 year old child. If you want to spend your leisure time interestingly, we suggest you find out what you can do crafts made from salt dough for children 4-7 years old.
How to make salted play dough
To make salt dough at home, you don't need expensive tools. All you need is:
- A glass of wheat flour
- 1/2 cup table salt
- 1/3 glass of water.
If you mix all the ingredients, you will get a soft and pliable dough for sculpting crafts. If the salted dough sticks to your hands, we recommend adding salt or flour to it; if it falls apart into pieces, then there is not enough water. To increase the plasticity of salted modeling dough, vegetable oil or cream is often added to it; the strength of crafts can be increased by adding a little PVA to the mixture.
Photo of a vase made of salt dough
If you want to make colored crafts from salt dough with children 5-6 years old, then buy regular food coloring, dilute it with 1/3 cup of water and pour the colored liquid into the mixture instead of regular water. Salt dough keeps well in the refrigerator, so don't worry if you have any leftover pieces, set them aside for crafting another day.
How to make simple crafts from salt dough for children 5-6 years old
First, you will need to teach your child how to make simple preparations:
- Show how to make sausages.
- Help make balls.
- Try flattening the tortillas.
- Learn to make cubes from a ball.
- Make triangular blanks.
These are the basics of salt dough modeling for beginners, thanks to which a 5-6 year old child will quickly master this type of needlework. From simple blanks you can make dolls, houses, animals, trees and other crafts.
Ideas for crafts made from salt dough for children 5-6 years old
The simplest idea is to make a thick cake and let the child leave a deep imprint of his palm on it. After that, trust him to decorate your creation and let the craft dry. You can make a hole in it so that you can then stretch the ribbon and hang it on a nail.
To develop finger motor skills and, accordingly, improve speech, you can offer a 5-6 year old child to make a craft with grains. To do this, you need to roll out the salted dough thinly, cut out figures using the shape, and then entrust the child to decorate the craft with different grains.
Children 6-7 years old can make a vase from salt dough. To do this you will need to prepare:
- Plastic bottle
- Scissors
- Salt dough of different colors
- Glue gun
- Plasticine
- Toothpicks.
First prepare salt dough of suitable color, you can even use multiple colors to make a vase. After this, cut off the neck of the plastic bottle and begin decorating it. To do this, you need to completely roll the bottle with dough. To make this easy and convenient, take a bottle of cosmetics, not a water bottle.
After that, start decorating the craft. To do this, take brown and black plasticine and toothpicks. Make small bees, which will then stick well to the dried salt dough. Wings can be made from a plastic bottle or lace.
Salt dough modeling for children 5-6 years old- this is a fun and interesting activity, because you can make not only simple, but also complex ones for a gift or for interior decoration.
From this article you will learn how to make salt dough yourself and how to dry it. Lots of photos and step-by-step instructions will help you make a dough craft for any holiday.
For modeling lessons with small children, it is better to use salt dough or Play Doh plasticine.
How to make dough for crafts: recipe
You can make the dough yourself; for this you will need just a few simple ingredients: flour, fine salt, citric acid, vegetable oil and water.
First mix 1 cup of flour with 0.5 cups of salt and 2 teaspoons of citric acid. Pour into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of oil to the dry mixture. Place over medium heat, gradually add water and stir. No more than 0.5 cup of water should be used. When the mass pulls away from the walls of the pan and becomes one lump, remove the pan from the heat. Take the mixture out, place it on a board sprinkled with flour, and knead it with your hands like regular dough.
If you want to make colored play dough, you first need to dilute dry food coloring in water. You can also add a little gouache to the finished dough and knead it well so that the color becomes uniform.
How to prepare salt dough for modeling?
Prepare salt dough. Paint it in different colors, depending on what you want to make. The dough can be made uncolored, divided into balls and add a little gouache of the desired color to each and knead. It's better to make the dough in regular colors, and then mix them to achieve the desired one.
Keep the dough in a bag, or wrap it in cling film, or put it in a closed container so that it does not dry out. If it is still dry, add a little water, and if it is too wet, add a little flour.
- Make the dough thinner and simply spread it on the base of the craft, so you can make butter on a piece of bread, or use brown dough to make chocolate frosting for a cake.
- Try on the food you made with the toy plates that you will later play with so that they match in size
- To stick the salt dough pieces together, use a wet brush. Apply a brush to the joint and stick the parts to each other
- When making food for dolls, it is very important to make the dough as much as possible the same color as the original, for example, the carrots should be orange, not yellow or red
- To prevent the colors from fading, open the craft with varnish. For activities with children, you need to use special harmless varnishes; they do not have an unpleasant odor because they are water-based
Drying figures from salt dough for modeling
There are two ways to dry salt dough crafts.
- Air dry crafts. It is best if you place them on a smooth surface and leave them for several days. When the craft is dry, turn it over or lay it on its side so that it dries on all sides.
- Baking in the oven. Preheat the oven well, place baking paper on a baking sheet, place crafts on top, place in the oven and turn off the heat. The oven should be closed and not opened until completely dry. You can also bake crafts at a temperature of 100°C, but in this case you need to watch them so that they do not burn
These two methods can be combined, for example, dry it in the oven for an hour, then leave it in the air, after a while in the oven, and so on until it dries.
Of course, if the craft contains other decorations (beads, beads), you need to dry it using the first method.
New Year's crafts made from salt dough
The child will really enjoy decorating the house before the New Year and making handicrafts together with his parents.
Christmas tree toys made from dough
You can make excellent Christmas tree decorations from salt dough, and even kids can handle making them.
- Prepare play dough in different colors or uncolored
- Roll out a flat cake and squeeze out a shape; you can use cookie cutters
- Make a hole with a cocktail straw so that you can hang the figurine on the Christmas tree.
- Decorate the toy as you and your child want: stick multi-colored balls on the Christmas tree, make a garland for it, let it rain, add a white snowball to the toy
- Unpainted dough can be dried first and then painted with paints or markers
- Dry the dough or bake in the oven
- Pass the ribbon through the hole and hang the toy on the tree
You can make a lot of holes in the figures.
Or stick beads, beads and other beautiful stones into the dough, but in this case these toys cannot be baked in the oven.
You can decorate toys with ribbons or decorative ropes.
After the dough has dried, apply PVA glue to it and sprinkle the figures with glitter.
Color the uncolored dried dough with a permanent marker.
Cut out a figure in the shape of a mitten, make it a beautiful colored ribbon from colored dough and decorate it with a homemade button. This figurine can be baked in the oven.
Print the baby’s palm and draw Santa Claus in it - it will not only be a wonderful toy for the New Year tree, but will also remain as a keepsake.
You can also make a Santa Claus toy like this. To give him a beard, use a garlic press. 
Make these other gingerbread toys from brown dough.
Making a New Year's candle from dough
To make a New Year's candle you will need modeling dough of different colors, a cardboard cylinder, for example, from a roll of paper napkins and red and yellow napkins.
- Let your child roll colorful sausages.
- Stick them on our cardboard base
- Decorate it with colorful balls
- You can simply cover a cardboard cylinder with one color and then decorate it
- Make a fire out of napkins and attach it to the top of our candle
Christmas tree made from dough
- First make a preparation for the Christmas tree; for this you will need a cardboard container of juice or milk. First cut off its top, cut along the side folds, and open it. You need to cut off the excess from the rectangles so that you get isosceles triangles. See how to do this in the diagram below
- Glue a cardboard base for your Christmas tree
- Now let your child decorate it: let him cover it with green dough - you will get a Christmas tree. All that remains is to add balls, a garland, a star, and don’t forget about the gifts under the Christmas tree
You can also make a Christmas tree like this
Easter crafts made from salt dough
For Easter you can make the following crafts from salt dough:
- Decorated eggs made from flatbread dough
- Bunny figures cut from salted dough flatbread.
- Decorated three-dimensional Easter egg
- Egg cup
Easter eggs made from dough
Even a baby can cope with this task.
- Take the dough and mold it into an egg-shaped figure.
- Decorate it as you and your child want.
You can use mixed dough of different colors for the base, or you can make a base from unpainted dough and then paint it with paints or markers. Open the eggs with glue and sprinkle with cosmetic glitter. Glue the multi-colored balls; to do this, moisten the joint with a wet brush. Press beads, pasta, cereal, and other decorations into the eggs. Make prints with different objects.
In general, fantasize!
Dough egg cup
For this you will need a cardboard cylinder, dough and paints.
Cover a cut circle of cardboard with unpainted dough and mold it into a tail, head and other parts, as shown in the diagrams below.
Don't forget to cover the stand on all sides with dough.
Decorate the craft as your imagination dictates; you can use gouache or watercolors.
Open with water-based varnish to make the colors brighter and the craft to last longer.
Dough crafts for February 14th for Valentine's Day
What does everyone associate with this wonderful holiday? Of course the heart! Let's make a festive heart with your child and give it to your parents.
Salt dough heart
Here, as everywhere else, we first make the base, in our case the heart, and decorate it!
You can decorate it with roses, it will be very beautiful. How to sculpt roses, see step-by-step instructions with photos below.
You can make a keychain like this with paws.
These cute couples are made very quickly and easily.
You can make a lot of these heart figures, make holes in them and make a garland out of them, which you can use to decorate a wall in your house.
Dough photo frame
Make an empty heart, decorate it and use it as a frame for a family photo, securing it on the back with colored cardboard.
Salt dough decoration
This kind of love fish will definitely suit your mother’s outfit on this special day.
Crafts from dough for March 8
On March 8th you can make these flower keychains for mothers, grandmothers, aunts and sisters. They can be done with younger children. You can use multi-colored dough or uncolored dough, and then decorate it with paints.
You can make this flower candlestick for a gift.
Make such interesting medals with your children, and most importantly, they are all different. Let the child give them himself.
Make figures in the shape of a figure eight and decorate them with flowers, stones, beads, in general, whatever your imagination allows.
Make a pendant with your child, for example, in the shape of a heart and decorate it: make flowers, leaves, decorate with paints, sign a congratulation.
Salt dough roses
- Take play dough, need colors
- Making a cone
- Roll the ball, flatten it carefully into a round cake
- Stick the ball to the cone
- We make a second ball and glue it on the other side - we have a bud
- We make a few more balls and also sculpt petals from them. We chain them in a circle
- We bend the upper edges of the petals slightly back, and press the sides to the center
- We make several side by side, depending on how lush you want the flower to be.
The rose is ready!
If necessary, make leaves from green dough, press the veins with a toothpick. Make legs from sausages. Combine all the details into one flower.
Crafts from dough for February 23
You will definitely like this medal.
Airplane - craft made from salt dough
A wonderful gift for dad or grandfather would be a salt dough airplane.
- Roll out the base for the figure - this will be the body
- Bend one side of it a little - this will be the tail. Attach the remaining parts to it
- Roll up the wheels and fenders for it
- Go over with a damp brush and attach the parts to the body
- Blind and attach wings in the form of triangles on toothpicks
- Make a propeller and also attach it to the body using a toothpick
- Let the figurine dry for several days
- Decorate the airplane with gouache
Crafts from dough for Maslenitsa
Maslenitsa is an ancient holiday that has many symbols and traditions. Crafts for this holiday are very diverse, you have plenty to choose from.
For the little ones, you can suggest making a sun, which symbolizes the onset of spring.
This is some sunshine for older children.
Invite your child to make their own pancakes from salt dough.
Pancake keychains
Panels and pictures made from salt dough
With older children, you can make a picture from salt dough.
For example, it could be a fruit basket. Follow the step-by-step instructions with the photo below.
- Roll out the uncolored dough to about 0.5 cm thick
- Prepare a basket template and, applying it to the dough, cut out the basket from it.
- Squeeze out the dough using a garlic press, twist it into flagella, stick it, moistening the joint first, onto the handle of your future basket. You can also add flagella to the rim
- Using a stack or knife, push through lines to imitate basket weaving
- Squeeze out the rolled out dough with a mold or cut out several leaves according to the template. Sell them veins
- Stick leaves on the basket
- Now prepare the fruits: apples, plums, grapes, etc. Roll them into balls of different sizes and give them the desired shape. For apples, stick cloves in the place where the dried inflorescence should have been, the apples will look like real ones
- Combine everything in one picture
- Leave your craft to dry for several days, preferably naturally
- Decorate as you wish
This is a simpler picture you can make with smaller children.
- Draw a background for it
- Draw the outlines of the character figures
- Ask your child to stick the dough without going beyond the outline.
- Leave the painting to dry
- When it's dry, invite your child to decorate the characters with paints.
- Add small details
- Open the picture with varnish, put it in a frame and you can hang it on the wall
Step-by-step dough crafts
Below are some step-by-step instructions with photos for modeling salt dough with children.
Salt dough beads
- We take colored dough, it can be one color, it can be different
- We roll balls out of it, preferably evenly and of the same size. You can make the size descending
- Pierce the balls carefully in the center with a toothpick
- We leave them to air dry for several days. Periodically turn them over to different sides.
- When the balls are dry, carefully remove the toothpicks
- We string the resulting beads onto a string or ribbon.
- You can paint the beads with paints or markers
Horseshoe made of salt dough
- Roll out the dough into a flat cake, 1 cm thick
- Attach the horseshoe template and cut out the figure with a knife
- Blind the leaves, cut off the excess, press the veins on them
- Make berries and a flower, use a toothpick to make holes in the berries and stripes on the flower
- Lubricate the horseshoe with water and stick all the parts
- Use a toothpick to make holes around the perimeter of the horseshoe. Make two through holes at the top to hang the figurine on a cord
- Leave the horseshoe until completely dry or bake in the oven
- The dough can initially be taken of a certain color for each part, or you can decorate it with paints at the end
Dough star
- Roll out the dough into a layer approximately 1cm thick
- Using a cookie cutter, cut out a star or other shape
- Gently lubricate the corners with a wet finger so that they are smooth
- Decorate the figurine: make eyes, mouth, nose, poke holes with a toothpick, add decorations
- Bake in the oven or air dry
- Open with varnish
Dough caterpillar
- Rolling a sausage from green dough
- Cut it into equal circles and roll them into balls
- We stick the balls together, do not forget to moisten the joint.
- Making a face for the caterpillar
- We pierce the figure with a toothpick or a pin in the place where we will attach it to the ring
- Drying our craft
Salt dough apple
- Roll out the ball of dough into the shape of half an apple. To ensure an even cut, press it onto a flat surface.
- Add a flat white center
- Roll apple seeds and a tail from brown dough. We make leaves from green
- We collect the figurine and dry it
Crafts made from salt dough - hedgehog
- Form the body and head of a hedgehog from uncolored dough.
- Make him a nose and eyes, you can use black dough or peppercorns
- Using nail scissors, cut the dough, making needles, lift them up a little. Cut the second row in a checkerboard pattern, and so on until the end.
- Leave the hedgehog to dry. When it has completely hardened, you can decorate it with paints and spray it with varnish.
Crafts made from salt dough - animals
You can sculpt many animals from salt dough with children. Below are some step-by-step instructions with photos.
Dough sheep
- Roll 4 balls - these will be the sheep's feet. Place them in a square, pressing their sides tightly against each other (look at the photo)
- Fold up a piece of foil and place it inside the dough ball. Roll it into a ball - this will be the body of a sheep
- Add a head to the sheep, make balls-eyes, horns and ears from sausages
- To imitate wool, make a lot of small balls and stick them around the back of the figure, pressing them down a little
- Dry your craft and decorate with paints and/or markers
Salt dough owl
- Roll out the dough into a round cake
- Use a felt-tip pen cap to press waves, imitating plumage.
- Fold the sides inward - these will be wings
- Fold the top part towards the center too, extending it a little on the sides - this will be the head and ears
- Stamp the eyes with a cap and add a beak with a toothpick
- Dry and paint
Dough elephant
- Roll the ball, stretch it out a little - this will be the body of the elephant
- Make 4 thick sausages - these will be the legs
- Make a trunk from another one
- Make a tail out of a thin sausage
- Roll out two flat cakes, put plates of smaller diameter and pink color on them - you will get ears
- Collect everything into one figurine and don’t forget about the eyes
- Dry the elephant and open it with varnish
Dough crafts - cat
- Cut out a cat template from cardboard
- Roll out the dough into a 0.5 cm layer
- Attach the template and cut out the cat from the dough
- Let the dough dry
- Using sandpaper, sand around the perimeter of the figure.
Paint the cat with a pencil and then with paints, let dry
Frame the panel
Making fish from salt dough
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 to 1 cm
- Cut out the fish according to the template
- Decorate it: make voluminous eyes, fins and a tail, imitate scales with caps from felt-tip pens or other improvised means
Let the mushroom dry and decorate it
Dough crafts - fruits and vegetables
You can make many different vegetables and fruits from salt dough, which you can then play with and feed your dolls.
Remember that the colors of food for dolls should be matched as closely as possible to the original ones.
By following the step-by-step instructions and photos, you can make interesting figures from salt dough, which you can then give to friends and family for various holidays. We hope in this article you found a lot of interesting work and useful information. Have fun activities and beautiful crafts!
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