I gave a simple recipe for salt dough for modeling. The improved recipe differs from it in a number of additional ingredients. I will talk about this in this article. So there is a wonderful analogue of mass for modeling, where instead of flour and salt it is proposed to use corn starch and soda. The result is a very pleasant and easy-to-use plasticine - plastic and soft. It makes beautiful thin products - flowers, magnets, key chains. If you plan to make large products that require additional strength, you can add PVA glue, wallpaper glue or bustilat to the regular dough. But never make a similar mass for modeling children!
Ingredients:
- Soda - 2 tbsp.
- Cornstarch - 1 tbsp.
- Water - 1.5 tbsp.
You will also need a non-stick saucepan or frying pan and a wooden spatula to knead the mass. Instead of a spatula, you can take a regular spoon. Be sure to use corn starch in this recipe, as potato starch will not give the desired result. So, pour all the ingredients into the pan, put on fire and stir.
After a few minutes, the mass will begin to solidify near the bottom and gather in a lump, so do not stop stirring it. The finished mass is similar in consistency to a thick cream.
Now remove the pan from the heat, put the dough on a plastic board or in a bowl and wait a bit until it cools down a bit. There is a little trick here - so that an unnecessary crust does not form on top, cover the pan with a damp towel. After that, grease your hands with a fat cream and start kneading the dough.
Everything, the mass for modeling is ready!
Store it wrapped in cling film or in a tightly sealed plastic container in the refrigerator for up to five days.
Finished figures from this plasticine dry at room temperature. You can also put them on the battery, laying them out on wax paper. Crafts dry very quickly, literally in 1-2 days. Now they can be painted and decorated.
The mass based on soda and cornstarch is very beautiful and pleasant. It is porcelain white in color and products from it turn out to be “rich”.
In fact, I like this homemade plasticine more than salt dough, but it also has its own peculiarities and nuances. So cornstarch is many times more expensive than regular wheat flour. In addition, it is quite difficult to buy. It is not sold in all stores. Also, a starch-based mass is more suitable for thin products, such as flowers, and voluminous figures may begin to crack when dried. Therefore, for bulk products it is better to use salt dough.
Improved Cornstarch Dough Recipe
Ingredients:
- Soda - 1 tbsp.
- Corn starch - 0.5 tbsp.
- Cold water - 2/3 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 1.5 tsp
- Food coloring
- food flavoring
So, mix starch, soda, water and dye in a saucepan. Put on fire and stir until thickened. After that, we make the pan from the fire and wait until the mass cools down a bit, covering the pan with a wet towel (this way you prevent the formation of a crust). After that, add a little vegetable oil, food coloring and flavoring to it and mix well. If the mass is too soft, add more starch.
Salt dough recipe for rye flour modeling
There is also another interesting recipe for salt dough - based on rye flour. It gives crafts a wonderful brownish tint, similar to the color of rustic bread. It should only be noted that rye flour must be mixed with wheat flour, otherwise the dough will turn out to be too hard and it will be very difficult to mold something from it.
Dry items at room temperature. You can also use an oven. But first, dry the dough in the open air anyway.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 3 tbsp.
- Rye flour - 1 tbsp.
- Salt "Extra" - 2 tbsp.
- Water - 1.5 tbsp.
Store the mass in a tightly closed container or in a plastic bag. Crafts from rye dough are interesting in texture and color. You can make original country-style kitchen panels, beautiful vintage magnets or hot coasters.
Salt dough recipe for modeling with PVA glue
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Salt "Extra" - 1 tbsp.
- PVA glue
Knead the dough with glue. If the glue is too thick, you can add a little water.
Wallpaper glue recipe
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Salt "Extra" - 400 g
- Water - 125 ml
- Wallpaper glue - 2 tbsp.
Knead all ingredients. Store in the refrigerator in a tightly closed container for up to one week.
Recipe with bustilat
Crafts from such material are very durable, they do not break, do not deform or break.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Salt "Extra" - 1 tbsp.
- Bustilat
Add enough bustilat to make a plastic dough that will not stick to your hands and crumble.
Vinyl Glue and Vaseline Dough Recipe
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Salt "Extra" - 1 tbsp.
- Vinyl glue - 1 tbsp.
- Vaseline melted - 1 tbsp. l.
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.
Mix all ingredients and heat over low heat. Then mix well, cool and sculpt. You can dry them either simply at room temperature or on a battery. After drying, the products are ready for painting and varnishing. Acrylic paints and gouache with the addition of PVA glue are ideal for painting. Acrylic varnish can be used for varnishing.
Additional Natural Ingredients
A wonderful salty dough is obtained with the addition of vegetable oil. Only you need quite a bit of it - 1-2 teaspoons per glass of flour. Thanks to this, the mass for modeling is plastic, soft, pliable.
Citric acid or lemon juice is a good preservative. If you add them to the dough, then it will last much longer. By the way, in foreign recipes for salted mass, an ingredient such as cream of tartar is often found. It is problematic to buy it from us, so replace it with citric acid.
If you add cinnamon and other spices to the dough, then it will turn out fragrant. Such crafts can be wonderful decorations and gifts for the New Year. It remains only to sew linen bags for them and give them to friends for the holiday.
You can color the mass either when kneading the dough, adding paint to the water, or coloring the already prepared dough, kneading it well. If you decide to make colored salt dough, then think about what kind of dye to use. If you are making clay for babies, then use only natural substances, such as spices, cocoa or berry juice. For older children, food coloring is suitable. If you are making dough for school children or adults, you can add gouache, watercolors, etc.
Food coloring comes in powder and gel forms. As far as I can tell from my experience, both paints work well. At the same time, the first option is cheaper, and therefore is affordable for most.
If you decide to stay on natural dyes, then depending on the need to get one or another shade, we can recommend the following ingredients:
- Turmeric - yellow
- paprika - orange
- Blueberry juice - blue
- Coffee - brown
- Saffron - yellow
- Chili pepper - orange
- Coffee - dark brown
- Blackcurrant juice - burgundy
- cranberry juice - pink
- spinach juice - green
- Spirulina - light green
Drying crafts
After you are done, dry the dough pieces on a flat surface at room temperature. This is an ideal option in which crafts do not crack or deform. You can also use the oven option. Transfer the products to a cold oven, and then turn it on and set the temperature to about 50 degrees. Keep oven doors open. Dry for about half an hour. After that, turn off the oven, and leave the doors open until the products have completely cooled. Then turn on the oven again. Similarly, repeat the procedure 4 times. This allows you to dry the products without deformations and cracks. Another drying method is to use a battery during the heating season.
Decor and decoration of finished crafts
When the products are dry, you can start decorating them. All kinds of paints, beads, rhinestones, beads are suitable for this. Also, often an interesting effect is obtained using stamps, markers, oil pastels. If you take multi-colored napkins and cut out pictures, separate the top paint layer, and then glue the resulting fragments to the product, you will get a wonderful artistic effect.
So now you can decide what kind of dough to make and choose between the simple salt dough recipe for modeling, or the improved recipe. Experiment, good luck with your creativity!
I have already written many times about how important the baby is. Yes, I think you know this very well without me. Therefore, today, without further ado, I want to tell you about another exciting and very useful activity - about modeling with kids and how you can play if you have a piece of dough at hand. All these games are useful not only for the development of fine motor skills, but also for the development of imagination, thinking, perseverance of the baby.
Often, mothers ask themselves the question: “What is better to choose for classes with a baby: dough or plasticine?” In my opinion, it would be better if you give the child the opportunity to get acquainted with different substances and sensations, you will conduct classes with both dough and plasticine. But here for the smallest (from 1 year old) it is better to use dough in modeling classes and that's why:
The dough is much softer and more pliable than clay, and for kids who still find it difficult to knead clay, this is important.
Considering the fact that many kids will want to taste the modeling mass, the dough (home-made) is much safer from this point of view, since its main components are flour, salt and water, and plasticine is still a combination of chemical components.
The dough can be prepared independently, or can be purchased at a store (for example, "Play Doh"). But if at least once you knead the dough at home, then, for sure, you will no longer want to deal with the purchased one. Homemade dough is more plastic, softer, more pleasant, and there is a lot of it! In addition, the process of preparing the dough is quite simple and does not take much time.
So how do you make play dough? Here are two test recipes that I have repeatedly tested and I really like. The first recipe can be called a classic salt dough recipe. The dough on it is prepared very quickly and simply, it is often used to create durable crafts, after drying it can be painted.
Salt dough for modeling - a classic recipe
1 cup flour
½ cup salt (preferably "extra")
½ glass of water
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Mix all ingredients and mix well until smooth.
Recipe for a very plastic dough
And one more recipe for a very, very soft, plastic, homogeneous and, I would even say, perfect dough! :) It is not suitable for drying and painting, but it is the best for fun games with dough.
1 cup flour
1 glass of water
¼ cup salt
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp citric acid
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, stir, then place over medium heat. After that, we begin to actively stir the dough with a spoon until it forms a ball and stops sticking to our hands. It will take no more than 3 minutes to mix. After the dough has cooled, you can start playing with it.
Do not neglect such a seemingly insignificant ingredient as citric acid! If you do not add it, then after storage in the refrigerator, the dough will begin to stick to your hands.
Food coloring can be added to any version of the dough. If you do not have a dye to tint the dough, you can use beet or carrot juice, turmeric, brilliant green, gouache. Well, if you divide the dough into several parts and paint them in different colors, it will be even more interesting!
Both doughs keep in the refrigerator in a closed container for quite a long time (several weeks).
Test games
So, you have the dough, what to do with it next? First of all, of course, you need to introduce the baby to the test. Give him the opportunity to touch, crush him. You can mold some kind of bun or bunny in order to show what the dough is capable of. If the acquaintance went well, you can move on to games.
Remember that the whole lesson should not last longer than 5-10 minutes. Do not try to include all the games in one lesson, watch the baby and always stop before he gets tired of the lesson. If a child loses interest in a particular game, it may be too easy or too difficult for him. Try to simplify or make the task easier.
1. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin
The kid, most likely, will begin to roll out the dough with pleasure, because he has seen more than once how his mother does it. If the crumbs are not good at wielding a rolling pin, help him by clasping his hands with yours.
Both a toy and a real kitchen rolling pin are suitable for the game. My daughter likes to roll with a big rolling pin even more.
2. Press various objects into the dough
Further, you can declare that the resulting cake is not just a cake, but a pizza or cake, which now needs to be decorated. And for this purpose, you can use a variety of items: matches, pasta, beans, counting sticks, small toys, lids, etc. Try to use objects of different shapes and sizes to diversify the child's tactile sensations.
3. Create simple crafts based on pressing objects into the dough
Here are some examples:
- Hedgehog
For the smallest, toothpicks can be replaced with matches or counting sticks.
- little man
Be sure to involve the child in rolling the torso and head. If the baby is not doing well yet, take his hands in yours and make rotational movements together.
4. Pinch off small pieces of dough, put them in a jar / bowl
This activity is very useful for the development of fine motor skills, as it trains the "plucked" grip. Beating the lesson is quite simple: invite the baby to feed his favorite bear with sweets. The game is likely to appeal to the smallest - children about a year old. At this age, kids really like to mess with small objects, fold and shift them.
5. Prick the dough on a fork
The same sweets that you made for the bear, try also to stick on the fork. You can tell the baby that the bear prefers to eat only from a fork, but refuses in a different way. So in the game we will quietly work out a very useful skill.
6. Cut with a knife
In this lesson, the main thing is to teach the child to hold the knife correctly and, importantly, to hold the dough on his own with his left hand (if the baby is right-handed). A toy plastic knife, a special plastic dough knife or a butter knife are well suited for playing. The lesson will be interesting for a baby from about 1 year 3 months.
7. Leave prints on the test
We press the toy into the dough, carefully remove it and ale-op, a beautiful pattern is obtained on the dough! Taisiya was simply delighted with this activity, and could get carried away for a long time, imprinting pasta on the dough.
Good for printing sorter figures, pasta tubes, small toys, designer parts, fork, hairbrush . Well, if a car passes through the test, leaving traces (preferably with large wheels and protectors on them), then the baby will most likely appreciate it.
And, of course, it is worth mentioning the cookie cutters separately. With the help of them, you can not only make beautiful prints. With older kids, you can try to remove the "excess" dough around the molds so that you get "cookies".
Fingerprints can also be made with just a finger. After that, it will be very interesting to “sow” the seeds into the resulting holes. It will turn out another wonderful exercise for the development of a "tweezer" grip.
8. Pass the dough through a garlic press
9. Put the dough into a mold - make a pie
For this game, you can use both cupcake molds and clean molds from the sand set. Putting the dough in a mold, we try to properly compact each piece. Most likely, you will have to get the pie out of the mold with your mother's help, because. this job is not easy.
10. Hiding surprises in the dough and finding them
This is our favorite game. I think all children love when there is a surprise moment in the game. They are ready to open intricate locks, unscrew stubborn covers, just to see what is hidden behind them. Children are happy to find surprises, even if they themselves hid them!
Therefore, in this lesson, first, together with the baby, we hide the toy in the dough, putting it on one half of the cake and closing the second. Older kids can be offered to pinch the edges, as when sculpting a pie. For younger children, mom can do it. Well, then we ask ourselves the question “Where is our hedgehog?” or “Oh, who is hiding here?”. Perhaps, at the first games, the baby will have to show how to "dig" to the toy. Most likely, the baby will catch everything very quickly and will subsequently pick up the dough with impatience.
Even such a seemingly simple task is incredibly useful for children's fingers.
11. Sculpt sausages, koloboks and simple figures with my mother's help.
And of course, in addition to simple games, you can try to mold the simplest figures together with your baby - a gingerbread man, a sausage, a snail, a bunny, etc. I will definitely write more about what you can mold with our young sculptors in a separate article in the near future. Do not miss .
That's all for me, I wish you pleasant joint games and more happy smiles on your baby's face! I would be very grateful if you share this article with your friends on social networks (there are special buttons for this at the bottom of the article).
A very interesting type of needlework is bioceramics, or otherwise salty dough.
There are many recipes for salt dough.
Recipe 1.
For simple figurines:
200 g flour, 200 g salt 125 ml water.
Recipe 2.
Delicate salty dough for filigree processing (small parts and products up to 300-400 g):
200 g flour, 200 g salt, 100 g potato starch, 150 ml water.
Recipe 3.
Hard salt dough for rough figures:
200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water
Recipe 4.
Classic recipe:
1) 150 g of water + 1 tbsp. mix simple wallpaper glue, let the glue dissolve well;
2) 200 g flour + 200 g fine salt + 2 tablespoons (with top) potato starch mixed separately;
3) combine everything + 2 tbsp. rast. oils.
Recipe 5.
Also classic.
Pour 1 cup of fine salt and 1 cup of flour into a bowl, mix. Then pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and half a glass of water, mix with a spoon and knead with your hands until smooth in the same way as regular dough. Water can be replaced with starch jelly, then the mass will be much more plastic. Kissel is done like this: dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Heat 1 cup of water in a small saucepan until boiling. Pour the starch solution into the boiling water, stirring. When the contents of the pan thicken and become transparent, turn off the heat. Let the jelly cool and pour it into the flour and salt mixture instead of water.
Recipe 6.
200 g wheat flour
100 g salt
2 teaspoons cream
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
300 ml. water
Mix flour, salt, cream and butter in a saucepan. Pour in water and mix thoroughly, avoiding lumps.
Place the saucepan over low heat and stir constantly. At first, the dough will be liquid, then it will immediately begin to thicken. Continue stirring until completely thickened.
Remove the dough from the heat and with a wooden spoon, transfer it to a smooth surface.
Let the dough cool. Knead the dough until it is soft and moldable and holds its shape well.
Recipe 7.
For large models (like plates or ceramic tiles):
200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water, 2 tablespoons wallpaper paste
Recipe 8.
For particularly durable products.
THE BEST RECIPE!!! There will be no problems with the product at all! This is the recipe of the master from the Arbat (unfortunately I don’t know the details).
Instead of water and glue, add bustilat (it is liquid).
1 cup fine salt, 1 cup flour - mix. Add bustilat until the dough is kneaded! No water and no flour added during the kneading process!
With the use of bustilat, toys do not get damp, do not deform during firing, do not break when falling - they become stone! Dry on a very low heat in a semi-open oven.
I took "Bustilat-3", it is even thicker in consistency than sour cream, like pudding, so it is difficult to knead the dough, but the result is simply wonderful !!! It cannot be compared with anything - neither with wallpaper glue, nor with PVA, etc. It costs 25 UAH. - 1.3 kg in a plastic jar.
Since I tried this recipe, I have not used any others!
Recipe 9.
Dough for air drying, not in the oven:
200 g flour, 200 g salt, 2 tablespoons wallpaper paste, 125 ml water.
Recipe 10.
Air-drying or oven-drying dough that makes waterproof, unbreakable products:
1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup vinyl glue, 1 tablespoon melted Vaseline, 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Mix everything in a Teflon bowl over low heat and stir. As evenly mixed, cool slightly and you can sculpt. Dry in the oven at a temperature of 50-60 degrees with the door ajar, if on gas. If an electric oven, then 75 degrees, the door can not be opened. Not in the microwave! It is better to put silver foil on the pallet, because the black surface gives off heat more strongly and the figure may crack. The slower it dries, the safer it will not crack. In the end, you can give 200 degrees, then the protruding parts will be baked and brown, this effect is aesthetic. If you do not have the opportunity to burn your product in the oven, please be patient. On the battery or in the sun, products (especially large ones) will dry out no earlier than in a week. After firing or drying, dough products can be painted and varnished. For coloring, you can take acrylic paints, but it is best to use artistic gouache, in which a little PVA glue is added. After drying, this mixture is slightly shiny and does not stain hands. For lacquering, use acrylic lacquer. It is water soluble, non-toxic and dries in 6-8 hours. You can also add dye to the dough itself when it is cooked, cocoa, for example, or turmeric.
Salt will not completely dissolve in water, its grains will be felt in the dough and shine in the product. Therefore, do not try to dissolve the salt, mix it with flour, and then knead the dough by adding water or bustilat. Any salt is taken, although more often - coarse grinding.
If the dough is too soft, then proceed as follows: mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt at the bottom of the bowl. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then knead it. Do this until the dough becomes more dense. Put the resulting mass in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After that, you can sculpt from the dough. If after modeling you still have dough left, then store it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag.
Drying
On open air drying time depends on the thickness and volume of work and can be up to several weeks. Outdoor drying is best done at room temperature. Remember: the thicker the product, the more time it will take. It is recommended to turn the product over to dry evenly, but if it has a convex volumetric ornament, then this is not possible. To dry the bottom at the same time as the top, dry the product on a metal mesh.
In the oven (gas or electric stove).
Dry the craft first in the open air (2-3 days), then in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees, gradually raising the temperature, but not higher than 150 degrees. At too high a temperature, the product may swell, sometimes even cracks appear. Swollen crafts cannot be fixed, and cracks are easy to cover up. To do this, dilute a little PVA glue, mix well and apply this mass to the crack, then rub this mixture.
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Drying time in the electric stove oven:
1 hour - at 50 degrees,
1-2 hours at 75 degrees,
1 hour - at 100 - 125 degrees,
0.5 hours - at 150 degrees.
Advice. Cover a baking sheet with food foil, put salted dough figures on it and place in the oven to dry. To check whether the figures have dried out well, you need to tap them with your finger. If the sound is muffled, then you still need to dry it, and if it is sonorous, then it means that the dough has dried out. Uniformly dried products are monophonic without "raw" spots.
On the heating battery.
This method is convenient to use in winter, when the central heating radiators are well heated. Put the craft on foil or cloth and leave it on the battery until it dries completely.
To keep the crafts well, after they are dried and painted, cover them with a transparent liquid varnish. This will reliably protect them from moisture. If you don't like mirror shine, then use a matte varnish.
Modeling dough is a mass resembling plasticine, but softer, does not stick, does not stain, does not have a strong odor and does not cause allergies. How to make salt dough for modeling at home? The best homemade dough is made from salt, flour and cold water.
Working with plastic mass is incredibly exciting and useful in terms of developing fine motor skills. This contributes to the activation of the points of the brain responsible for the coordination of movements, objective actions and speech. And this is not all the advantages of modeling dough, it is:
- Increases perseverance.
- Develops logic and creative thinking.
- Improves concentration and perception.
- Develops the ability to work with small objects and helps in mastering the intricacies of manipulation.
Every mother can make a useful mass, because the technique is not much different from making dough for dumplings. In the article I will consider the most popular recipes. I will start with the classics, and later I will switch to more complex options.
Classic Salt Dough Recipe
I offer a classic recipe for salt dough for modeling, which involves the use of the simplest ingredients that are present in every kitchen. It is incredibly popular among experienced craftsmen, people with little experience and beginners.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g.
- Salt - 300 g.
- Water - 200 ml.
Cooking:
- Pour salt into a deep container, add some water. I advise you not to use all the liquid at once, because in each case the moisture content of the flour is different.
- After the salt dissolves, add the sifted flour. Mix in a bowl first. After the formation of a lump, transfer the mass to the work surface and complete the process. To increase plasticity, gradually add water.
- Place the finished dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate. After two or three hours, the salty mass is ready for work.
Video recipe
From these proportions, quite a lot of salt dough is obtained. If large crafts are not planned, cut the number of ingredients by half or four. If the mass remains, store it in a film in the refrigerator, just like the slime mass is stored. In this form, it retains its original qualities for a month.
How to make dough in 5 minutes
If salt dough crafts have become a family hobby, I recommend arming yourself with a recipe thanks to which you will make another portion of the elastic mass at home in 5 minutes.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 cup.
- Water - 1 cup.
- Soda - 2 teaspoons.
- Salt - 0.3 cups.
- Vegetable oil - 1 teaspoon.
- Food coloring.
Cooking:
- Pour a mixture of salt, soda and flour into a small saucepan, pour in water along with vegetable oil. Put the container on a small fire and heat for several minutes, stirring regularly. Add dye and stir.
- Watch the density of the dough. If it sticks to the spoon, it's done. Put the mass on a plate to cool. After that, knead thoroughly with your hands.
- Store your salt dough in a bag or food container or it will dry out. If the mass has dried up, do not be discouraged. Add some water and mash.
Videos cooking
Quick salt dough has another advantage - a long shelf life. Subject to all the rules, the dough retains its properties for several months. With this material, you will not be bored.
Recipe without starch with glycerin
Some craftsmen cover the surface with a layer of varnish to give the crafts shine. But such a result can be achieved without the help of paints and varnishes, because there is glycerin, which is sold in all pharmacies.
Ingredients:
- Boiling water - 2 cups.
- Flour - 400 g.
- Glycerin - 0.5 teaspoon.
- Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Tartar - 2 tablespoons.
- Fine salt - 100 g.
- Dye.
Cooking:
- Make a base. In a small container, combine cream of tartar, vegetable oil, salt and flour.
- Bring water to a boil in a small saucepan. Pour in the flour base, add the dye and glycerin. Cook until the mass acquires a homogeneous consistency.
- Cool the resulting composition and knead thoroughly. Add flour if necessary.
Having made a figure from dough without starch, you will see that it has a pleasant sheen. This craft will be a wonderful gift for mom on March 8 or a friend for her birthday.
How to make dough for modeling without flour
The highlight of this plastic mass is the absence of flour in the composition. The technology for preparing salt dough for modeling is suitable for craftsmen who do not like working with a white, quick-tempered ingredient.
Ingredients:
- Starch - 1 cup.
- Baking soda - 2 cups.
- Water - 0.5 cups.
- Natural food coloring.
Cooking:
- In a deep bowl, mix cornstarch with baking soda. While stirring the mixture, pour in the water in a stream.
- Put the container with the ingredients on a small fire and cook until a ball forms.
- Place the cooled mixture on a floured surface and knead. The dough is ready.
There is no flour in this dough, but it is great for modeling. Use this easy-to-make plastic material to create a variety of shapes that will showcase your talent to others.
What can be done from salt dough - examples of crafts
We examined the technology for preparing salt dough for modeling. It's time to put the salty stuff to work. If you are a beginner, I recommend starting with the simplest figures. Over time, having gained precious experience, switch to more complex crafts.
Experienced craftsmen make various figures and compositions from salt dough. The result depends only on the imagination. In this part of the article I will give some good examples with step-by-step instructions for making. They will help to learn the basics even for children.
mushroom
- To create a hat, roll a small ball and lightly press on one side.
- Make a sausage. When rolling, press down on one side a little. Get a leg.
- It remains to collect the figurine. To increase reliability, use a toothpick.
- After the dough has dried, decorate the mushroom as you wish.
beads
- Roll the dough into several dozen equal-sized and even balls. Put the balls on the toothpicks.
- Leave the balloons outside for a few days to dry. I advise you to turn the beads several times a day.
- Carefully remove the toothpicks from the dried balls. String beads on ribbon or string. For a more beautiful product, color the beads with markers.
Christmas decorations
- Roll out the salt dough into a sheet. Using a cardboard stencil or cookie cutter, squeeze out the shapes.
- Use a straw for cocktails to make holes in the figurines. Dry the dough.
- It remains to decorate the Christmas decorations and thread a beautiful ribbon through the hole.
Rose
- Make a cone out of a small amount of dough.
- Roll into a small ball and roll into a cake. Attach the fragment to the cone.
- Attach a similar element on the opposite side. Get a button.
- Roll up a few balls and make petals. Attach to the flower in a circle.
- Bend the upper edges of the petals slightly back, and press the sides.
- After the dough has dried, paint the figurine scarlet.
Puzzles
- Make a large stencil of a figure out of cardboard, for example, a cat. Roll out the dough into a layer. Using a stencil, cut out a large figure. Leave the dough until morning to dry.
- Cut the cat figurine into fragments with a sharp knife. Wait for complete drying.
- Color the craft with markers or gouache. After drying, cover each piece with a layer of clear varnish.
Video examples of figurines
As you can see, salt dough is ideal for creating simple and complex shapes and compositions. And these are just a few of the ideas. With the help of imagination, you can create a variety of toys, jewelry, souvenirs and other crafts.
In conclusion, I will share the secrets of experienced craftsmen who will make working with the material more productive and the result more impressive.
THE BEST SALT DOUGH RECIPES FOR MAKING DECORATIVE PRODUCTS There are many salt dough recipes. Recipe 1. For simple figurines: 200 g flour, 200 g salt, 125 ml water. Recipe 2. Delicate salty dough for filigree processing (small parts and products up to 300-400 g): 200 g flour, 200 g salt, 100 g potato starch, 150 ml water. Recipe 3. Hard salty dough for rough figures: 200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water Recipe 4. Classic recipe: 1) 150 g water + 1 tbsp. mix simple wallpaper glue, let the glue dissolve well; 2) 200 g flour + 200 g fine salt + 2 tablespoons (with top) potato starch mixed separately; 3) combine everything + 2 tbsp. rast. oils. Recipe 5. Also classic. Pour 1 cup of fine salt and 1 cup of flour into a bowl, mix. Then pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and half a glass of water, mix with a spoon and knead with your hands until smooth in the same way as regular dough. Water can be replaced with starch jelly, then the mass will be much more plastic. Kissel is done like this: dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Heat 1 cup of water in a small saucepan until boiling. Pour the starch solution into the boiling water, stirring. When the contents of the pan thicken and become transparent, turn off the heat. Let the jelly cool and pour it into the flour and salt mixture instead of water. Recipe 6. 200 g of wheat flour 100 g of salt 2 teaspoons of cream 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil 300 ml. water Combine flour, salt, cream and butter in a saucepan. Pour in water and mix thoroughly, avoiding lumps. Place the saucepan over low heat and stir constantly. At first, the dough will be liquid, then it will immediately begin to thicken. Continue stirring until completely thickened. Remove the dough from the heat and with a wooden spoon, transfer it to a smooth surface. Let the dough cool. Knead the dough until it is soft and moldable and holds its shape well. Recipe 7. For large models (like plates or ceramic tiles): 200 g of flour, 400 g of salt, 125 ml of water, 2 tablespoons of wallpaper paste Recipe 8. For especially durable products. THE BEST RECIPE!!! There will be no problems with the product at all! This is the recipe of the master from the Arbat (unfortunately I don’t know the details). Instead of water and glue, add bustilat (it is liquid). 1 cup fine salt, 1 cup flour - mix. Add bustilat until the dough is kneaded! No water and no flour added during the kneading process! With the use of bustilat, toys do not get damp, do not deform during firing, do not break when falling - they become stone! Dry on a very low heat in a semi-open oven. bustilat (400x423, 30Kb) I took Bustilat-3, it's consistency is even thicker than sour cream, like pudding, so it's hard to knead the dough, but the result is just wonderful!!! It cannot be compared with anything - neither with wallpaper glue, nor with PVA, etc. It costs 25 UAH. - 1.3 kg in a plastic jar. mallow (120x120, 15Kb) Since I tried this recipe, I haven't used any others! Recipe 9. Dough for air drying, not in the oven: 200 g of flour, 200 g of salt, 2 tablespoons of wallpaper paste, 125 ml of water. Recipe 10. Air-drying or oven-drying dough that makes waterproof, unbreakable products: 1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup vinyl glue, 1 tablespoon melted Vaseline, 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Mix everything in a Teflon bowl over low heat and stir. As evenly mixed, cool slightly and you can sculpt. Dry in the oven at a temperature of 50-60 degrees with the door ajar, if on gas. If an electric oven, then 75 degrees, the door can not be opened. Not in the microwave! It is better to put silver foil on the pallet, because the black surface gives off heat more strongly and the figure may crack. The slower it dries, the safer it will not crack. In the end, you can give 200 degrees, then the protruding parts will be baked and brown, this effect is aesthetic. If you do not have the opportunity to burn your product in the oven, please be patient. On the battery or in the sun, products (especially large ones) will dry out no earlier than in a week. After firing or drying, dough products can be painted and varnished. For coloring, you can take acrylic paints, but it is best to use artistic gouache, in which a little PVA glue is added. After drying, this mixture is slightly shiny and does not stain hands. For lacquering, use acrylic lacquer. It is water soluble, non-toxic and dries in 6-8 hours. You can also add dye to the dough itself when it is cooked, cocoa, for example, or turmeric. General recommendations Salt will not completely dissolve in water, its grains will be felt in the dough and shine in the product. Therefore, do not try to dissolve the salt, mix it with flour, and then knead the dough by adding water or bustilat. Any salt is taken, although more often - coarse grinding. If the dough is too soft, then proceed as follows: mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt at the bottom of the bowl. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then knead it. Do this until the dough becomes more dense. Put the resulting mass in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After that, you can sculpt from the dough. If after modeling you still have dough left, then store it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag. Sometimes it is recommended to add vegetable oil to the dough for elasticity, but the oil makes the salty dough crumbly. Get ready for it! Drying Outdoor drying time depends on the thickness and volume of work and can be up to several weeks. Outdoor drying is best done at room temperature. Remember: the thicker the product, the more time it will take. It is recommended to turn the product over to dry evenly, but if it has a convex volumetric ornament, then this is not possible. To dry the bottom at the same time as the top, dry the product on a metal mesh. In the oven (gas or electric stove). Dry the craft first in the open air (2-3 days), then in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees, gradually raising the temperature, but not higher than 150 degrees. At too high a temperature, the product may swell, sometimes even cracks appear. Swollen crafts cannot be fixed, and cracks are easy to cover up. To do this, dilute a little PVA glue, mix well and apply this mass to the crack, then rub this mixture. To be honest, I can’t dry products in the oven of my gas stove without deformation (((I dry in the air and use this excellent device http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/yakusha/post226410282 Drying time in the oven of an electric stove: 1 hour - at 50 degrees, 1-2 hours at 75 degrees, 1 hour - at 100 - 125 degrees, 0.5 hours - at 150 degrees. Advice. Cover a baking sheet with food foil, put salted dough figures on it and place in the oven to dry. To check whether the figures have dried out well, you need to tap them with your finger. If the sound is muffled, then you still need to dry it, and if it is sonorous, then it means that the dough has dried out. Uniformly dried products are monophonic without "raw" spots. On the heating battery. This method is convenient to use in winter, when the central heating radiators are well heated. Put the craft on foil or cloth and leave it on the battery until it dries completely. To keep the crafts well, after they are dried and painted, cover them with a transparent liquid varnish. This will reliably protect them from moisture. If you don't like mirror shine, then use a matte varnish.
