Figures from salt dough in stages. Do-it-yourself salt dough figurines: instructions, photo ideas. From flour and salt

26.10.2021

Sculpting is a great way to develop fine motor skills in children. However, kids are very fond of tasting everything, so traditional modeling materials, like clay or plasticine, are often not suitable for classes. There is a great alternative - salt dough: it is very easy to sculpt from it, it is much softer and more pliable than the same plasticine, and at the same time, it is absolutely safe for the child.

Any product can be made from this material. Small children (from one and a half years old) can, under your guidance, try to create simple figurines from salt dough, and an older child can try any crafts, souvenirs or toys that only imagination and skill are capable of.

How to make salt dough?

On top of all the benefits of this material for modeling, it is also very affordable, as it can be quickly made in your kitchen.

There are many recipes for making salt dough, so everyone has the opportunity to choose the most convenient and simple for themselves.

Here is one way:

take a glass of salt (about 200 g), add 2 cups of flour, and dilute with water (more than half a glass), knead the dough;
you will determine the degree of its readiness along the way: if the dough sticks to your hands and stretches too much, add a little more flour, and if it crumbles, then there is not enough water;
try rolling a ball and making a few indentations in it (the finished dough will keep its shape well without blurring);
when kneading, it is recommended to add a little (a tablespoon) of vegetable oil;
for sculpting relief figures, add 2 tablespoons of starch;
wrap the well-mixed mass with polyethylene and refrigerate for several hours;
toys made from salt dough can be painted ready-made, or you can immediately prepare colored dough (make it in several separate containers and add food coloring, instant coffee, beetroot or carrot juice, acrylic or gouache paints, etc. when kneading).

You can watch special master classes if you are going to sculpt for the first time.

The goal of modeling classes for children should be to form an interest in this art, to familiarize themselves with all the properties and capabilities of the material: the dough can be torn, crushed, flattened, rolled, crumbled, dried. Teach your child to invent stories, make toys or figurines of acting characters for them, and combine them into whole large compositions. This will help you not only develop and improve the fine motor skills of children, but will also develop their imagination, imagination, and speech.

Making simple crafts with kids

Sculpt should be on a special board for modeling or a baking sheet. Also prepare a small rolling pin to roll out the dough, a brush (you will sometimes have to moisten the dough with water), stacks - sticks for working with plasticine or dough, other details, depending on the direction of your work (paints, molds, decorations, etc.).

If you are just starting to work with a small child, choose the simplest schemes and master classes so that it is easy and interesting for children to sculpt products.

First, you can do something by showing it to the child, then perform actions with his hand, and then let him try to create a toy from salt dough with his own hands.

Come up with a fairy tale about your character with your child. For example, it is very easy to make a cute little caterpillar or even her whole family, and then play with them.

Show your child how to make a caterpillar: you need to pinch off small pieces from the dough and roll balls of different sizes from them.
For the head of the product you will need a large ball, and for the body - a few smaller parts. The final look of the craft depends on how many balls you get, and what diameter they will be.
Then you can connect all the balls together. To make the elements stick to each other better, moisten them with water at the junctions.
The muzzle of the caterpillar can be drawn or molded, and the antennae can be made from cut matches.
Now the product needs to be dried. Some prefer to do it naturally. This method will take you about 3-4 days. Also, figures from salt dough can be dried in the oven: if it was preheated to 55-80 ° C, then you will need to keep the product there on a baking sheet with parchment paper for about an hour, and if you put the figures in a cold oven, then set the temperature to 150 ° C and, after drying a little, leave the crafts in the oven until it cools down.
When the toy is dry, color it with your child. This can be done with gouache, acrylics or watercolors.

In the same way, other toys are created very simply - octopuses, a snake, cats, fish, birds, vegetables and fruits. You can cut blanks out of cardboard, and then circle them already on the test.

Also, for little children, a very simple master class on making figures from salt dough as Christmas tree decorations will be available.

Prepare a few multi-colored pieces of dough.
Roll them out well, and using a variety of cookie cutters, cut out the figures you need.
Make holes in the figurines with a tube or stick so that they can then be hung by a thread or ribbon on a Christmas tree.
If you make a lot of holes, then you will get real openwork figures.
Products can also be decorated with beads (only with plastic it will not be possible to dry them in the oven), various cereals, buttons, shells, pieces of glass beads, etc. Sprinkle the finished toy with sparkles (on a layer of glue or varnish).
Figures painted with permanent markers, or decorated with all kinds of stamps (for children's creativity, of any texture) also look very nice.

As a memorable home souvenir, you can make prints of the child's legs and hands, and on the back, sign how old the baby was.

Making more complex toys

There are master classes that show that you can create more complex toys, figurines, or even entire compositions with your own hands. For example, try with older children to make a cute hedgehog or the whole hedgehog family.

Since you will be working on a 3D salt dough figurine, you will need some kind of ball to create the hedgehog's torso. You can take wooden, plastic or even foil, as long as it is very dense.
Cover it well with dough so that there are no holes anywhere.
The eyes and nose of the hedgehog can be made from dough or you can use any means at hand (for example, large peppercorns).
With the help of nail scissors, form needles on the back of the hedgehog (make row after row in a checkerboard pattern).
You can also make fruit that your forest dweller will carry on his back.
Then you should dry the hedgehog and decorate it. Cover the product with clear nail polish so that the paint does not fade and the appearance of the figurine does not deteriorate over time.

In the same way, you can make a sheep, an owl, and any other voluminous toy.

Master classes will help you create even whole paintings from salt dough, which will become not only an excellent decoration for your home, but also a wonderful original souvenir for a gift. Pictures are best sculpted on fabric, foil or painted cardboard. When the craft is completely dry, paint it and varnish it.

Good afternoon, today we have finally completed a large selection of ideas for New Year's crafts from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. There are Christmas toys made of dough, decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters made of dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other children's crafts made of dough suitable for kindergarten or school. I promise that today you will fall in love with this world of wonderful salt crafts and want to make your own miracle for the New Year from salt dough with your own hands.

So let's get started. Let's start with the recipe.

SALT DOUGH RECIPE

For New Year's crafts.

Flour (wheat or rye) - 1 cup. It is rye salted dough that holds its shape better.
Salt (finely ground for example "Extra") - 1 cup
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (so as not to stick to hands), or 1 tbsp. hand cream
PVA glue 2 tablespoons - optional, you can do without it.
Water - how much dough will take. Pour gradually kneading the dough into a tight plastic lump

First, mix the dry ingredients - salt, flour.

Pour 1 tablespoon, rub with your hands. Add a spoon again and grind. We continue to pour and knead with our hands. As soon as we have an elastic lump in our hands, our dough is ready.

We store the finished dough, wrapping it tightly in cling film and putting it on a shelf in the refrigerator.

PAINTING RULES

Method 1 - paint the dough itself. You can color the dough with food coloring or salt dye for Easter eggs. Colors are also suitable - jars of dyes from a hardware store, they are used to tint white wall paint in the desired color. They are cheap and rich in color.

Method 2 - paint the craft. Crafts can be made from unpainted dough and then painted on top with gouache and fix the color with hairspray from a can.

MODELING RULES.

We attach large parts of the craft to each other with a match or a toothpick. We glue the crayons of the part on the water, that is, we wet the parts with water and apply them to each other.

As you sculpt crafts, keep a bowl of water nearby, moisten your hands or the dough itself from drying out. In the open air, the dough dries quickly and loses its elasticity.

RULES FOR DRYING CRAFTS.

Can be dried outdoors, on a battery, in the oven (130-140 degrees).

Flat dough shapes.

(New Year's crafts-toys for the Christmas tree).

The simplest version of dough crafts is a flat silhouette, covered with paint, with or without a pattern. Roll out the dough into an even layer, cut out the figures, dry. If you like perfect shapes, then I suggest that you sand the dried part with sandpaper (sanding paper), sold at a hardware store for a penny. So you get a perfectly flat surface of the craft.

We cover the salt dough figure with paint in the background color (gouache, acrylic, even building acrylic is great). We dry. On this background we draw multi-colored patterns. We dry. We fix with hairspray (or acrylic varnish).

Here is a great idea for children's crafts from salt dough for the New Year - a bullfinch bird from the outlines of a child's palm. We put our palm on the cardboard, circle it with a pencil, cut it out. We put a cardboard palm on the rolled out dough, cut it with a knife ... or scratch it with a knife and cut it out with scissors, gently lifting the dough layer above the table without stretching it.

And now I want to tell some important tricks, secrets and nuances, which will help you immediately achieve a good bright result when working on New Year's crafts from the dough.

HOW TO SELECT clear contours of a pattern on salt dough.

First, we draw the details with a pencil on an already dried dough (we make a sketch), if it is successful, then we draw it with a black felt-tip pen (so that it becomes visible).

We color all the details of the drawing with gouache, like a contour coloring, without being afraid to climb onto the black edge of the stroke. We dry the paint.

And then we go through all the edges with a black bold marker. So the outlines of the picture will become clearer (see the photo below, where exactly the windows and doors of the salt dough houses are drawn)

The SECRET of choosing a color for coloring crafts from dough.

If you do not draw the borders of the details with a black stroke, then you must follow the RULE OF CONTRAST - that is, choose such paints where the colors themselves stand out against each other.

The penguin star in the photo below is very indicative - White paint looks bright in contrast with black, and red paint is brighter when next to black and white.

But in the right photo below (with a butterfly made of salt dough), this rule is no longer observed. And pink flowers look pale and expressionless against the orange background of the craft.

But the blue flower (on crafts even lower in the shape of a star) is already bright - because blue and orange are CONTRAST to each other.

You can make a pattern crafts from similar colors of the palette(white, blue, blue - as on the mitten from the photo below), but then you need to achieve a difference in their saturation - the blue should be lighter, and the blue ones should be juicier and darker - so that there is no color fading.

And it is better to choose contrasting juicy colors (red + white + green) - as is done for crafts in the right photo below - with New Year's salt dough boots. A beautiful and simple New Year's craft made from salt dough for children at school or an older group of kindergarten. We cut out the leaves with molds or scissors from salt dough. All painting of crafts is done with gouache.

How to make painting with embossed pattern.

You can apply a colorful pattern to the salt dough, enriching the decor depressed relief (as in the photo with the New Year's crafts from the dough below). There we first make indentations with a stamp - round berries (squeeze out with a pencil with washing) and leaves (we make using a stamp cut out of a piece of raw potato).

After punching the relief pattern, we apply paint inside the relief, giving the whole craft beautiful retro style.

How to color your own salt dough.

First we make the usual salt dough. Testy natural color. Then at the bottom of the glass in a couple of drops of water we dilute the food coloring powder. And add this mixture to a small piece of dough. Knead evenly with your hands (hands will also be painted, it’s not scary, everything will be washed off). We get a colored lump of dough - we make colored elements from it to decorate a dough craft (for example, these buttons on mittens below).

You can use food or salty Easter dye. In powder or immediately liquid (then it does not need to be soaked in water). As a result, we get a colored material for sculpting bright details with which you can decorate a flat dough craft.

Depending on the amount of dye, you will get a bright juicy color (like a carrot on the nose of a dough snowman) or a pale pastel shade (like the salt dough owl in the right photo). As you can see, everything is easy to do by yourself. Even children will be happy to help knead the dye - they are mesmerized by the process of spreading color to all parts of the dough ball.

Graphic SECTOR painting

dough crafts.

With the help of the usual drawing ruler you can make RELIEF GRAPHICS - divide the plane of the salty figure into clear sectors (as is done for crafts in the form of a heart from the photo below) and paint over each sector with its own color. A beautiful and bright New Year's craft made from salt dough with your own hands, which looks like factory stamping. Well done.

Similarly, you can extrude sectors WITH SMOOTH BORDERS(not in a straight line, but in a curved one). To do this, we take a sheet of thick cardboard, put it on the edge with a slight bend - and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth groove line (as it is done on Christmas toys from the dough in the photo below).

Round grooves, in the form of a ring, are made using caps from medicine bottles, caps of felt-tip pens and other things.

We whiten the grooves immediately with white gouache, let it dry. And on top we apply already bright layers of paint.

We fix the craft with layers of hairspray, usually from the cheapest can (or coat it with a soft brush with acrylic varnish from the stationery store).

After varnish coating, the color becomes brighter by 2-3 tones.

Lacquer coating (especially in several layers) makes the craft sparkle as if it was made of ceramic with ceramic glaze.

Pay attention to the craft of salt dough mittens - ideal for kindergarten. We make mittens ourselves - and we give the children the opportunity to divide the sectors into strips with a ruler and paint the strips with gouache in different colors. Simple and terribly interesting for all the kids in kindergarten and even big boys from school. An apple-shaped craft made from salted dough is also a godsend for classes in kindergarten - and make a relief with a ruler on a leaf, and work with gouache for your own pleasure and with your own hands.

Crafts from the test for the New Year

with rhinestones and sequins.

You can decorate salty dough crafts with various decorative elements from a sewing accessories store. Rhinestones, sequins, sequins, buttons, beads, beads - all this can complement your craft with New Year's sparkle.

Decoupage technique

On crafts made from salt dough.

Flat dough silhouettes can be an excellent background for a paper napkin print. The technique is called decoupage. And especially for her, nothing is needed, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and a napkin with a pattern and hairspray for finishing fixing.

We take an already dried silhouette from salt dough. If necessary, we grind it with sandpaper so that the surface becomes smooth and even (although this is not necessary).

We apply a layer of PVA glue to the surface of the dough piece. We separate the thin top paper layer from the patterned napkin and put it on top of the glue, gently straightening the delicate paper, not allowing it to settle down with wrinkles or wrinkles.

It is not necessary to fill the entire surface of the salty craft with a napkin pattern. You can place a napkin pattern on only one side of the dough silhouette (as is done on New Year's salt dough heart crafts). Before work, it is better to sand the dried hard surface of the parts with ordinary sandpaper, and cover with white (gouache or acrylic) - this is how we get the perfect “canvas” for our elegant decoupage art.

Salt Dough Tools

(knives and scissors for decorating crafts)

Here in the photo below we see how interesting it is to use a knife and ordinary scissors when making crafts from salt dough. The tip of the knife creates a triangular depressed silhouette, and with scissors you can cut the dough into protruding sharp shreds of the same shape.

This technique with scissors is very handy when you need to create plumage for bird crafts from salt dough. Actual crafts for the New Year of the Rooster.

Salt dough weaving

For the New Year.

And here is an example of how you can do it yourself from salt dough KNITTED HEART. First, we sculpt long sausage ropes from dough with our hands.

Then we bend the long sausage in half and twist it into a HARNESS-SPIRAL.

We lay 2 twisted bundles next to each other - side to side - choosing their arrangement so that the turns of each adjacent bundle look in the opposite direction. That is, one bundle with a diagonal coil left down, and the other bundle with a diagonal coil right down. Thus, 2 strands laid side by side form the illusion of ONE PIECE.

If several such braids are placed side by side (of two bundles each), then we get CLOTH, similar to the relief of a knitted pattern.

It remains to squeeze out the silhouette of the heart from this canvas (with a regular cookie cutter). And lay this knitted layer on top of another regular flat heart of dough.

You can make an ordinary pigtail (of three sausages) from salt dough, put it in a ring and decorate the craft as a Christmas wreath. Form rose petals from round cakes of dough, lay out in a rose. Make leaves with veins squeezed out with a knife edge.

A braided dough craft can be decorated with silhouettes, cut out cookie cutters, such as stars. Below we see a master class on neat painting of dough crafts

After drying, we cover each element with thick gouache, choose the painting design to your taste. You can add elements with sparkles and beaded sprinkles.

Crafts from dough

With embossed patterns.

(embossing method).

Here is a way to decorate for salt dough crafts, which is very popular with all children. They are delighted with the openwork pattern that, as if by magic, appears on the salty dough.

The easiest way to make a pattern on salt dough with your own hands is with button prints. We take large buttons without holes - using double-sided tape we stick them on ordinary wine corks - and we get comfortable stamps that you can hold in your hands. We give the children stamps and they poke them into the rolled out dough. Next, we cut out the silhouettes of Christmas trees with cookie cutters - and we get a craft in the form of a Christmas tree, with New Year's balls.

Look beautiful imprints of large metal buttons with a relief convex pattern - semi-antique.

In the same way, you can use grandmothers brooches, buttons with an eagle or a horse on dad's jeans, grandfather's royal coins (hee-hee), embossed caps from mom's perfume, beer caps, the bottoms of Aunt Sima's crystal glasses and other interesting round stamps.

But this pattern on a salt dough Christmas tree craft is made using thick cardboard (or a rubber mat), which is rolled up to form a curl at the end of the roll. And this curl was applied to the salt dough rolled out on the table. Simple and beautiful as a result. An excellent children's craft for a competition in school or kindergarten.

The bottom and sides of the decanter and other crystal bottles are an excellent storehouse of patterns for crafts from salt dough for the New Year.

You can also involve RELIEF TEXTILE - napkins, tablecloths, and fringed curtains. You can buy lace with a relief pattern in the store, or look for its elements in a drawer with beautiful linen.

Just put the openwork on the rolled out dough. And we roll over it with the same rolling pin. If your house does not have a rolling pin (you are such a hostess, what can you do) - then you can replace it with a smooth glass bottle or a can of hairspray.

A very beautiful and clear relief is left by RUBBER NAPKINS (as in the photo below). The fashion for them passed back in Soviet times - but for New Year's crafts with your own hands, you can buy a couple of elegant polyethylene napkins.

Here are some patterned things obtained from plastic Chinese napkins.

How to

paint the dough

WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.

We want the coloring of the embossed patterned dough craft to be bright. So that the paint does not smear the pattern, but only emphasizes, highlights it. To make the pattern darker inside and lighter on top - how to do it?

And here's how - first we paint the entire craft in one color with a brush - we climb with a brush into all the recesses of the pattern. Dry until the paint is completely dry.

And then we take the paint 1-2 tones lighter (or even a different color) and work no longer with a brush, but with a foam rubber sponge, or with a make-up sponge.

We smear this second paint on a plate, blot it with a sponge and carefully make an imprint of the sponge on the surface of our pattern - SO that the sponge does not go into the recesses-grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get a uniform coloring of the entire craft.

Thus, we will make the coloring of the pattern with a textured selection of it into 2 color tones - on top and inside the relief.

And here (in the photo below) is also an original-painted and original-dented craft made from salt dough. As far as I understand, this relief on the craft-star is made with help bags a la snake or crocodile skin. The surface of the bag was applied to the test. All this dried up. And then they painted with a brush and a sponge in several tint passes. Please note that not all places were painted over with a blue brush, a brush with white paint walked somewhere. And then everything was powdered from above with soft white paint using a foam rubber sponge.

And you can also not look for any stamps for patterns - but prick the pattern yourself - with ordinary sticks, pencils, cocktail tubes. Just first, with the tip of a pencil, outline the lines of the future pattern - draw faint stripes of future flower petals. And then, along the marked lines, make point punctures-pits. If we take sticks of different thicknesses, then we will get different points, this will give the composition additional artistic variability.

And nature itself can give us its stamps for imprinting the New Year mood on dough crafts. Sprigs of evergreen fir, prints of cones and dry veiny leaves. Even at home in a flower pot, you can find the source of a beautiful floral pattern.

Puff pastry crafts

with your own hands for the New Year.

See what puff beauty you can do with your own hands. How beautiful the DOUBLE-LAYER CRAFTS from salt dough look. The lower base layer is made without a pattern, in a solid color. We dry this layer well, then we grind its surface with sandpaper (or pumice stone for heels, it’s also good). We cover the polished base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform coloring (you can act not with a brush, but with a foam rubber sponge or spray paint from a spray can).

We make the upper patterned layer of the craft already from salt dough with a relief print. By the way, very beautiful prints can be made using antique tin trays with relief engraving on metal. Your grandmother or elderly neighbor may have just such a tray. A neighbor for a chocolate bar will let you use it if you sensibly explain to an alarmed old woman that in 5 minutes you will return a valuable rarity to the owner. If she does not trust, invite her to your kitchen-workshop, let her see how her tray helps to create a New Year's miracle.

And here is a children's craft for the New Year - in the form of bird pendants on a Christmas tree. Here the relief is applied to the upper layers - wings and breast. From the dough, first cut out the body of the bird. Then breast and wings.

Preliminary we make a relief print USING THE WIRE. Yes, ordinary wire on a flat table twists in different winding directions, forming a flat pattern of twisted tracks.

Then this wire is placed on the rolled out salted dough and pressed with a rolling pin into its pulp.

Two-layer children's crafts from salt dough for the New Year must contain the New Year theme in their decor. These are snowflakes (cut out of dough), these are red berries and holly leaves. Ribbons can also be molded from dough or you can take real satin ones.

You can and should decorate multi-layer crafts with beads. Beads can be put on glue, and you can also string a bead on a wire, and twist the ends of the wire together, pierce the dough craft and spread the ends to the sides (into a spread). Such a wire fastening of beads is used in the craft in the photo below.

Here we just see an example of crafts from salt dough IN SEVERAL LAYERS. You will learn exactly how to make this New Year's flower from salt dough with your own hands if you read an article on our website. It shows the principle of creating puff flowers from paper, and exactly the same principle allows you to make the same flowers from dough. The rolled out dough is cut in the same way as paper, with scissors, and it is also convenient to lay it in puff tiered flowers for the New Year.

Flower petal layers can be glued together after drying - with hot hot glue from a gun. Or batter. Check in advance how this or that method works.

But (in the photo below) we see a two-layer craft made from salt dough, to which we added volume. A very interesting job. And in fact, making such a Christmas tree decoration is not difficult at all with your own hands.

Look - first we roll out the dough, then cut 2 rounds out of it with a glass. In him

We find 2 Christmas balls of a suitable size. And we put our rounds on the rounded belly of the Christmas ball. And we dry our blank like this right on the ball - so that it dries in the form of a hemisphere (bowl). Next, we remove the two dry hemispheres from the Christmas ball and connect them together.

The most difficult thing is to make sure that the edges of the hemispheres dock with each other (for this it is necessary that each kruglyash, dressing on a Christmas ball, takes EXACTLY HALF of this ball), does not go, so to speak, beyond the equator line.

You can make any pattern from salt dough curls on the surface of a round ball. As this is done in the photo below. We put a plastic film (non-woven, food grade) on the ball, and put the elements of the pattern on it. Dry on a ball. Then carefully remove, separate the cling film with your hands.

liquid pattern

On crafts of salt dough.

In the photo below, we see snow-white crafts made from polished salt dough, with an openwork pattern applied to it. Such a delicate, almost lace bas-relief can be made using the “liquid drawing” technique. We dilute the liquid salty dough and apply it with a confectionery syringe, or an envelope (a bag with a notched corner) - along the lines of the intended pattern.

First, we grind the canvas - a dry flat piece of salt dough. Then on it with a pencil, crayon, or felt-tip pen, we will draw the lines of the future drawing. And we begin to slowly apply a thick pattern.

By the way, the same work can be done with gypsum diluted with water (gypsum plaster is suitable).

Try it first on a tester to see how you work best with plaster or batter. How it dries, cracks from drying, or holds its shape. Try to make samples with varying degrees of liquid (from very thick to runny).

So with your own hands and your brains you can think of and experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough. Try. Create. Be outrageous. Play pranks.

Dye can be added to batter (food, or color jars, which are sold in hardware stores to dilute them in white paint). Crafts with such a liquid pattern can be made imitating New Year's cookies, and sprinkle them with grains of coarse salt, imitating sugar sprinkles.

Salt dough crafts

WITH HOLES.

On pendants toys made of salt dough, you can make curly holes. In the form of stars, hearts, just round holes.

Or you can squeeze out a whole openwork pattern from molds of different configurations.

By the way, this is how you can make an openwork snowflake from salt dough. Here in the photo below we see an abbreviated master class - it immediately becomes clear how to actually make such New Year's beauty with your own hands.

You can pour THERMO-MOSAIC into the holes on the raw dough, which melts in the oven. And when baking, it will spread with a colored lake inside the hole in the craft.

Instead of a mosaic, you can pour ordinary COLORED LOLLIPS - that is, sweets. They will also melt and fill the hole. You will get a beautiful craft with your own hands, just as if the children did not lick it off with their tongues.

New Year characters

from salt dough.

From the dough you can make various New Year and winter characters. For example a snowman or penguins.

You can mold ordinary shapes from the dough, and then with paints give them a resemblance to the desired character.

Details can be drawn with a thin stroke with black gouache, or with a black thick marker.

A complex STEP-by-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. Here painstaking and perseverance is needed to complete all the work piece by piece and dry everything thoroughly before painting.

Curly FLAT silhouettes can also be designed in the form of New Year's characters. Salt dough snowman - based on the silhouette of a STAR.

The simplest forms are combined and a new New Year's craft made from salt dough in the form of a SAND MAN is obtained.

To make the craft spectacular and voluminous, you can - also from dough - make a SUBSTRATE for it. That is, the background, for example, in the form of a lush bow, as in the craft with a bear cub from the photo below.

The rolled salt dough is cut into strips - a magnificent bow is formed from them. On top of the bow we put the craft-bear cub and dry it all together. Then we paint, climbing with a brush into all hard-to-reach places.

And here is an ANGEL craft made from salt dough, where our embossed print technique is applied - on the wings and on the tunic.

You can come up with your own design for New Year's crafts from salt dough. In any case, your character will be recognizable after you paint everything with gouache.

Santa Claus from salt dough is also done easily and in a variety of ways (as you have already seen in the photo above. The beard can be made round, branched, curly, or flat and cut along the edge with scissors (as in the photo below)

You can simply make a Santa Claus head - with a star-shaped backing, as in the photo below.

These are the ideas for crafts from salt dough for the New Year you found today on our website. We have many other collections of beautiful Christmas art for kids of all ages. Sculpt your New Year's happiness with your own hands and let salt dough crafts give you sweet pleasure from the result of your work.

Happy New Year.

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If you have a small child, then you just need to master salt dough crafts. However, who said that creativity is alien to adults? From this plastic material you can sculpt wonderful figurines and paintings to decorate the interior.

Our site is pleased to offer you a lot of workshops on making - there are “make-ups” for both the smallest and older children, there are descriptions of step-by-step manufacturing of various products for adults, which are accompanied by colorful photo of salt dough crafts.

Salt dough crafts the relevance is extremely high, because they are used for the development of children. The benefits of modeling for the development of fine motor skills are very great, in addition, during this exciting activity, the zones responsible for the development of speech and attention will be activated at the fingertips. Modeling is a creative activity that will require the manifestation of all his imagination from the child. In addition, it is not enough to blind a product made from salt dough - it must be decorated after drying, and this will also positively influence the development of artistic abilities and aesthetic perception.

Children like this kind of creativity very much, because the dough is a “living” and plastic material, but mothers do not worry that the child will accidentally pull the material into their mouth or stain things with it. Of course, in the case of working with the test of a small child, PVA glue should not be added to the material.

We note right away that making crafts from salt dough is quite simple - first you need to prepare the source material from flour, water and salt (on our website there is salt dough crafts photo illustrating the dough preparation process). Well, then you can start the creative process. If you are modeling with a small child, then master the modeling of the most fruits and letters (by the way, you can also learn the alphabet along the way). Crafts for older children will be more difficult - with them you can make pictures from dough, and New Year's toys, and animal figures, by the way, you will find master classes on making all this splendor with us.

Kids will also love making a variety of fridge magnets. Adults can create their own panels with attractive images, as well as master the manufacture of a colorful fruit basket, which will be an excellent decoration for the kitchen interior. After the craft is made, it will need to be dried in the oven or in the open air, then painted with gouache, watercolor or acrylic paints.

An attractive appearance can be given to the product using glazing or varnishing procedures.

Crafts from the salty dough video will clearly demonstrate the entire process of making such a “machinery” - from kneading the dough to making a figurine, from baking it in the oven to coloring. With site website you definitely will not have any difficulties if you decide to master this interesting kind of applied art.

Olga Pakhomova

Master class on testoplasty. Step by step description of working with salt dough. From work experience.

Target: Development of fine motor skills and intelligence; creativity and imagination. Cultivate patience and perseverance. Encourage children to create dynamic expressive images and collective plot compositions, independently choosing a topic.

Items made from test, often call "Bread Sculpture", referring to the ingredients used - flour, salt and water, that is, the very ones from which bread is baked. Salty dough- an excellent material for making dreams and ideas come true, and it is also an excellent "medicine for the soul" relieving stress and depression.

Ingredients and Proportions: Flour, fine salt, wallpaper paste powder, water. Flour and salt 2 :1 wallpaper paste 1 tablespoon

All thoroughly knead. You must "feel" dough with hands. This is very important, because from the consistency test all further work depends. It should not be too soft, not too hard. Density test you can always correct: for this, sometimes it is enough to add a few drops of water or vice versa, art. l a mixture of flour, salt and glue.

How to color dough.

There are practically unlimited possibilities here. Can be added directly to dough dye how i do (acrylic paint, tempera, also cocoa, dry yuppie juice, ground turmeric), or you can color the finished product. It is best to dilute the selected paint (I use food coloring) in a small amount of water and add it to the mixture of flour and salt.

Tools.

You can easily find the tools you need at the initial stage of work at your place. Houses: this is a glass or plastic bowl, a glass, a rolling pin, a knife, foil, toothpicks, a pizza cutting wheel, caps from felt-tip pens, bottle caps, cookie cutters, almost any item can be used to give the future product the desired shape

So, salty dough provides freedom of imagination, ingenuity, creativity.

Storage dough and drying products.

Salty dough can be stored for 4-5 days. This storage time limit depends on the property of the salt, which makes the dough is too loose. Salty dough should be stored in a tightly sealed bag in a cool place

To make a product from salt dough became hard, you need to dry it, that is, remove as much water from it as possible. The best way is to put it in the oven, preferably an electric one. The product must be dried, but not baked. The oven temperature should be minimum: 50 C. This process takes enough time a lot of: need about 1 hour, for a layer dough thickness 50 mm. In order for your compositions to please you for a long time, try to protect them from dampness. For strength, the finished product can be coated with a colorless varnish. Children love to sculpt salt dough

I am absolutely convinced that salt dough is made for to bring great pleasure and incomparable joy of creativity to those who model products from it.

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Master class "Basket with roses" from salt dough teacher MADOU "Kindergarten No. 6", Perm Drozdova Nadezhda Ivanovna Dear colleagues.

At the beginning of my work, when the children were still small, I always kneaded the dough in the presence of the children. Gives you the opportunity to participate.

Our distant ancestors decorated the surface of loaves with figured images of spikelets, berries, leaves before baking to attract good luck and receive blessings from their deities. Today we do it without any religious background, just for beauty.

In addition to decorating edible products, the use of dough of a special composition allows you to create very spectacular and beautiful decorative figurines, pictures and flowers. In this case, the dough perfectly replaces more complex and expensive materials, so it is ideal for young children. But this is such an exciting activity that even adult respectable people are happy to do it.

Everyone can use salt dough for self-expression and relaxation, it is only important to know how to make a durable and plastic material, as well as competently dry and color the finished product.

The subtleties of making dough for crafts

The modeling of products itself is no different from working with plasticine or other similar materials. The advantage of salt dough is that it is more plastic, less dirty hands and surrounding objects, gives more opportunities for complex work, and also perfectly preserved after proper drying, becoming hard and durable.

The difficulty lies in how to prepare the right dough that will not stick to hands and tools, will not crack and crumble. To do this, follow a few simple tips:
Do not take pancake flour for work - it is more sticky and the dough will turn out to be of poor consistency.
Use only fine "Extra" type salt. Coarse salt will create a coarse crumbly dough due to grains when kneaded directly dry, and dissolving such salt in water will take too long. In addition, there may be impurities in rock salt that will stain the modeling dough, and Extra salt is purified and very fine.

By diluting the flour with ice water, you can get an excellent, plastic and very homogeneous dough.

Using these simple tips, you can start working with your children, creating a variety of products of amazing beauty. Salt dough is a simple, inexpensive and very accessible material for creativity, and children are just crazy about such useful entertainment.

Used tools and materials

When we sculpt from salt dough, we need special tools to work. They are all found in our homes, in our kitchens, or among stationery, sewing and craft supplies.

Basic tools and materials for work:

Rolling pin for rolling dough. If it is not there or the existing one is too large for children's hands, you can find a replacement in the form of an ordinary glass bottle.
Knife for cutting dough. Children can be given a plastic knife from a set of colored plasticine.
Board for rolling dough and making products.
Paints for coloring (watercolor, acrylic, gouache - any water-soluble dyes).
Varnishes for finishing (water-based, best in aerosols). Additionally, you can use spray varnishes "with special effects" - "snow", with sparkles, gold, silver or other metallic varnish.
A set of brushes for coloring.
Water container.
Forms for cookies.
A variety of items to add texture to the finished product - toothbrushes, combs, knitting needles, buttons, lace and more.

For small children, special clothing should be provided, as they can get very dirty. Stock up on a pack of dry and wet wipes before work - they are convenient not only to clean your hands, but also to get your brushes wet from excess paint. So it will be possible to avoid the spreading of dyes over the finished little thing.

Three best recipes

To knead salty dough, you can use your own hands or entrust this process to modern technology - a mixer or dough mixer. With their help, you can get a particularly smooth and elastic dough.

In order for the finished product not to crumble, you need to pre-fill the salt with the required volume of water, and then mix it thoroughly with flour. It is important to mix the product well until completely homogeneous, otherwise, when drying, the finished item may crack or break into separate pieces.

Basic Recipe:

A glass of flour (wheat or rye).
A glass of finely ground salt of the "Extra" type.
Half a glass of ice water.

Mix the ingredients and knead the dough until smooth. This recipe is great for crafts with fine details such as flowers, leaves, ornamental plants, and so on.

Plastic soft dough recipe:

Flour - one glass.
Fine salt - one glass.
The water is very cold - half a glass.
Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons.

Instead of oil, you can take glycerin, a fairly fatty cream or cooking oil. The introduction of fats or oils into the salt dough recipe makes it more plastic and elastic, and also avoids cracking of the product after drying. This option is especially suitable for "thick-walled" products, which can break if the dough is completely dry.

For work with fine details or many small elements, you will need to use an improved salt dough recipe:

1.5 cups flour.
1 glass of salt.
0.5 cups of water.
2 - 3 tablespoons of PVA glue, wallpaper glue like "Metilan" or any other water-soluble glue.

Such dough keeps its shape perfectly, small thin elements can be made from it, and with definitely “stuffed” hands, you can make things that are outwardly indistinguishable from good porcelain.

Any recipe for salt dough can be regarded as a basis, since you can modify it “for yourself” endlessly, experimenting with various ingredients until you get the right composition.

How to Dry Salt Dough Perfectly

The main difficulty for beginners is the technology of drying the finished product. Drying can be done in different ways:

"Bake" in a heated oven like regular cookies, at a temperature ranging from 50 to 80 degrees (depending on the size and thickness of the product). The finished little thing is placed on parchment paper for baking and placed in a preheated oven for about an hour. The duration of processing depends on the dimensions of the product. Do not remove the item from the oven until the oven has completely cooled down.
Drying in a cold oven, that is, the product is placed in a cold oven, the heat is turned on and brought to the desired temperature. Everything else is exactly the same as in the previous paragraph.
Salt dough products are best simply air dried, although this takes a long time. A well-dried craft becomes durable, hard and not subject to external influence. Normal drying is great for small or delicate items.

Do not use electrical appliances or a central heating battery for drying. They dry the dough unevenly, which can cause cracking or damage to the thing if it has dried on only one side, has a dry surface and “raw insides”.

Used dyes and finishing materials

When preparing salt dough, the dye can be injected directly into the product itself and get a material very similar to plasticine. But the difficulty in this case will be working with the material - you will have to connect individual colored parts, and for kids it's too difficult. Everyone loves to work with paints, so for children it is preferable to use the schedule of a ready-made monophonic little thing.

In work, it is easiest to use water-soluble paints. Acrylic dyes are very good - they give a dense and uniform color, have a large color palette and are easy to use, dry quickly. But you can also use regular watercolor. It gives a beautiful translucent layer, and paints can be layered with glazes to obtain special effects - volume, transition of tones, overflows and acquiring different textures. If there is a need to obtain an opaque staining with watercolors, you can use a white primer. Its role can be played by white acrylic paint, gouache or tempera with the addition of PVA glue to hold it on the surface of the product.

For decoration, you can use bulk paints, metallic dyes, beads of different sizes and shapes, buttons, rhinestones and other little things that do not deteriorate from high temperatures if drying in the oven is planned.

Is it worth varnishing crafts?

In principle, the finished salt dough craft holds paint very well, but if you plan to use this thing, for example, for games, or it is a chess piece, a decorative vase, a box, in a word, a thing that will suffer from constant touching, then it should be covered varnish. It will not only protect finished products from external influences, but also give a beautiful glossy sheen, which is necessary for many types of crafts.

The easiest way to use varnish in aerosols, carrying out processing in the open air or in a well-ventilated area. If necessary, varnishing can be repeated several times, drying each previous layer well. To give a special decorative effect, you can use special sprays, for example, with the effect of snow or sparkles.

Salt dough types

For toddlers or beginners, you need to use simpler forms and objects that they understand. You can start sculpting with traditional cats or dogs, fruits and berries, cars and other simple figures without numerous and complex details. Gradually, with an increase in the level of skill and the young sculptors themselves, the work can be complicated, moving on to the creation of figures, paintings and compositions.

The pinnacle of craftsmanship can be considered the creation of flowers from bioceramics, as salt dough is also called. Of course, even a baby can make a simple chamomile, but only an “advanced” user can make a full-fledged bouquet of roses or a flowering jasmine branch.

To learn how to work with salt dough, you need to follow the instructions step by step and do not rush to take on complex products.

A variety of panels and paintings from dough with salt

Creating pictures from dough is not as difficult as it seems. At the first stages of creativity, it is worth using a hint in the form of a photograph of the future “work of art”. For example, you want to create a beautiful autumn landscape. Find a beautiful photo with a few small details and use it as inspiration.

A piece of thin plywood is suitable as the basis for the picture, but if it is not available, you can also use thick cardboard. A rolled out layer of dough is superimposed on the surface of the base. It can be glued with any suitable glue.
All the details of the future picture are cut out or fashioned from salt dough and superimposed on each other as they move away from the background of the picture. That is, the objects farthest from the viewer will be laid out on the base first. This method will allow you to get very neat and expressive volumetric images.
The finished picture is thoroughly dried, and then painted with suitable paints. After the paints have dried, the picture is varnished and placed in a frame. The product is ready, it can be hung on the wall in the room or given to someone who can appreciate the creativity and talent of the performer.

If you use foil as the basis for the product, the dried and painted part can be easily removed from it and then transferred to any other material. It can be a dense fabric stretched over a frame, glass, plastic, even metal. Such flat and at the same time voluminous products can be used to decorate boxes, decorate children's furniture, boxes with various things, or be used to identify, for example, lockers for things in a kindergarten locker room.

Figurines and dolls made of bioceramics

For kids, there is nothing more interesting than sculpting "little men". They really like “cartoon” characters, for example, fixies, Masha from a cartoon about a bear, heroes of comics and fairy tales. From salt dough, you can make not only figurines and dolls, but also various houses, benches, trees, fountains - in a word, everything that fantasy can suggest.

If you plan to make fairly large figures, you should take care of the internal frame and stands for stable standing. Desulphurized matches, plastic and wooden toothpicks can be used as a support for small plastics, cocktail skewers or Asian chopsticks may be required for larger items. Save wooden ice cream sticks - they can be the basis of many different products.

For stability, the figures must be placed on a salt dough base in the shape of a circle or oval - this will ensure a flat plane.

If the figure is depicted in motion, it may be necessary to create a wire frame - it will help in modeling and will not allow the finished product to crumble.

In addition to voluminous, three-dimensional figures of people and animals, various fruits or vegetables can be created from salt dough. They are beautiful both on their own and as part of various compositions. For example, elegant fruits can be effectively laid out on a beautiful dish and decorate the kitchen or dining room with them.

Flat figures can be cut out with cookie cutters. Hearts can become original valentines, Christmas trees can decorate the New Year's table, flowers can be used to mark places when seating guests at a holiday. Only fantasy can limit the scope of various dough products.

Spectacular flowers and plants from flour salt

The pinnacle of craftsmanship is thin and graceful flowers made from flour salt, as salt dough is also called. This work requires great perseverance, talent and accuracy, so it is more suitable for adults and teenagers. Toddlers, on the other hand, can successfully sculpt stylized flowers of a simple shape.

How to mold a complex three-dimensional flower, for example, a rose?

You need to take a piece of dough and roll the core out of it in the form of a drop. The base of the drop is the bottom of the flower.
Then you need to thinly roll out the dough and cut out rose petals of different sizes and shapes from it.
By carefully placing one petal after another on a teardrop-shaped base, you can get a rose blank. To make it look like a real flower, each petal must be carefully bent, giving it a natural shape and shape.
To complete the work, you need to create a cup of a flower with folded sepals, cut out some beautiful leaves with carved edges and connect all the details together with wire and pieces of salt dough.
Finished crafts are left to dry completely, and then painted in the selected colors.

By this principle, you can create any flowers, whole bouquets, complex compositions and even imitations of plants in pots. The choice of plot depends on the imagination and creativity of the creator. A good example would be a cute cactus that is supposed to be kept near the computer. A living plant, even one as stable as a cactus, may not survive in an office environment, but a lovely prickly creature made of salt dough will survive any cataclysms perfectly.

How to deal with possible problems

In any work, errors may occur, or things may not go at all as expected. Even if you do everything in stages, taking into account all the nuances, product defects may appear. Basically, these are cracking and chipping of individual parts of the product.

Cracks in crafts appear due to the wrong composition of the dough, errors in drying, or the beginning of coloring the finished item when the base is not completely dry. If the cracks are small or the surface of the product is covered with a thin network of small cracks, they can be repaired.

To do this, you need to dry the thing completely, and then carefully sand the defects with sandpaper of varying degrees of abrasiveness. You can bring the surface to the ideal with “velvet” sandpaper. Then the surviving cracks can be puttied with a dough slightly diluted with water and salt. You may have to repeat the procedure several times if the cracks are very deep.

The lesson learned will teach that much more attention should be paid to the basis of the future thing than even to the finish - not only the appearance of the product itself, but also the very fact of its existence depends on its quality.

It happens that during the drying process, part of the product simply disappears, especially often this happens with thin parts or fragile small fragments. Sometimes the elements of the work break off during the schedule with too much exposure. In order to repair a toy with an even break line, you can use ordinary PVA glue. Apply layers of glue carefully so that ugly streaks do not form. The finished and dried item must be sanded and re-painted and varnished.

If a product made from fresh dough has broken, it is enough to moisten the fracture points with water, press the individual parts against each other and wait for setting. Decorate the dried work as planned.

You can try to restore a damaged figurine with the loss of individual elements by replacing the missing parts with pieces of fresh dough. Dry and fresh elements may not bond securely, so after the new parts dry, they may need to be glued together for strength.

Give yourself and your children the pleasure of creativity, because working with dough is easy and pleasant, and the cost of materials is negligible. The result of the work can exceed any expectations!