Many needlewomen, keen on modeling, or mothers, whose little children preferred this hobby, tried many materials. Interesting figures, ornaments, paintings are created using clay, plasticine, plastic( polymer clay).Another original and environmentally friendly material that every woman can create with her own hands is a salted dough. With its help, surprisingly beautiful products are obtained. But few know how to make a salted dough correctly. Below you will learn a few good, proven recipes.
Salted dough for modeling at home
Salty dough is a material that has gained wide popularity among needlewomen. It is often used for molding with young children, because, unlike plasticine, containing substances that are not very useful for the skin of the child, this dough is safe. And if there is no glue in the composition, nothing terrible will happen if the baby swallows a piece in the process of making hand-made articles. Several advantages of the salt test before other materials:
- Does not require serious financial investments. As a rule, the necessary ingredients for cooking are always at hand.
- Quickly rinsed off hands, leaves no residue on clothes or surfaces.
- It has good densities, holds shape, does not stick to hands during molding( in case it is well and correctly mixed).
- Subsequent drying of finished products can be carried out both in the oven and in the air.
- Many materials, including natural dyes, are suitable for coloring the resulting crafts.
- If you cover the finished products with lacquer, then they will last for a long time.
Modeling is an excellent activity that will bring a lot of pleasure to both adults and young children. In infants, this hobby will help develop fine motor skills, contribute to the development of the ability to focus, which is especially important in the preschool period. Finished items can be given to close friends and relatives as gifts for the holidays, pictures of salted dough will decorate the house, and toys will be an excellent reminder of the tender age of the child. In addition, joint modeling will bring parents closer to children, which is also an indisputable plus of this lesson.
Essential Ingredients
Salt dough preparation is a process that requires care, especially for those who make such a mixture for the first time. However, the number of ingredients is small and many of them are found in every housewife in the kitchen. The basis of any variant of the test is salt and wheat flour, which are mixed with water. Some prepare a mixture of wheat and rye flour, so that the material is better processed. To make the dough more elastic, thick, needlewomen can use the following additional ingredients:
- Dry wallpaper paste. This component will help make future products more durable.
- Vegetable oil or a normal hand cream will give a salt plasticity test, it will be easier to sculpt with it. Kissel from potato starch. This ingredient can be used instead of water to make the dough plastic. How to cook: in half a glass of water, dissolve a teaspoon of potato starch. Mix with a glass of freshly boiled water. Put the liquid on the fire, hold until the mass becomes thick - the water replacer is ready.
- Food and other dyes for creating a color test.
Tools for making a dough for yourself
To make a salted dough, you need a wide bowl for mixing, an oven( in the cold season the battery is suitable, in summer, if there is no oven, the material can be dried in the sun).For the convenience of modeling it is better to take a pan or a board: besides, on the latter you can then immediately bake ready-made articles. It is also desirable to have a plastic bag at home, where the dough will be stored for a while, so that it does not dry out. An excellent replacement for it will be a container with a lid. What else may be needed:
- Spoons, glasses, to measure the number of ingredients.
- Special blades for modeling.
- Brushes, if the painting is done.
- Gouache, acrylic, other paints.
Test options and features of working with it
Each needlewoman, who has been working for a long time in modeling a puff pastry, has her own secrets on the creation of this material. Some have experimentally learned to reconcile the ideal ratio of all components, and someone complements the classic recipe with interesting ingredients that increase the plasticity of the foundation for modeling. Below you can learn several ways to create a salt test, see a phased photo of his cooking, learn important secrets that help make the material ideal.
Classic recipe for beginners
A classic recipe will help beginners create a salty dough with a minimum of ingredients. All that is needed to make the mass is small salt( extra), wheat flour and water. The material prepared with this recipe retains its properties for up to two weeks when stored in a refrigerator. Over time, you will learn how to determine the required amount of ingredients by eye.
How to make:
- Pour the salt( half a glass) into a wide bowl. Next pour in water at room temperature - should be slightly less than half a cup. Stir the liquid thoroughly for five minutes, then allow the solution to stand for a quarter of an hour. Some grains will remain at the bottom, but this is normal, then they will disperse in the test.
- Gently fill half a glass of wheat flour, kneading it well with a fork or spoon. Try to "break" the resulting lumps to make the mixing easier. A homogeneous mass should be obtained.
- If after preparation the dough clings to your hands or looks liquid, you need to add more flour. Check the readiness of the material, with your fingers leaving a trace in the mass. If he does not "float", keeps his form, everything is ready.
- You can start to sculpt right after cooking.
Brewed salted dough
More tender in texture - brewed salted dough, it differs from the classical version in that it is less dense. Unlike the outcome of the previous recipe, such material will be more stringent. Children from him are delighted, because the brewed dough does not stick to his hands. As a tool for modeling, you can use plasticine molds. What ingredients will be needed:
- Two glasses of water.
- Tablespoon vegetable oil.
- Two glasses of flour.
- One glass of salt.
- Tablespoon of citric acid.
How to cook:
- Warm up the water in a saucepan, do not bring to a boil. Add the vegetable oil.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the bowl. Stir well. Then pour in the hot water. You can start kneading with a fork or with a mixer.
- First the mixture will be liquid, continue to knead without stopping. In hot water, the flour is brewed, it becomes denser.
- Mix until the material becomes thick, viscous. You can add dyes, sequins, until the mixture has cooled. Done!
How to knead the dough
All the ingredients of the classic recipe( flour, salt, water) should be kneaded with a fork, spoon, mixer or hands. Do this for a long time until the lumps are completely broken. If the salted dough is too liquid, add the mixture with wheat flour. Note that when kneading the mass should not crumble, fall apart. To prevent this from happening, carefully knead the mixture until a stiff dough turns out.
How to make colored dough for crafts
Children engaged in the manufacture of hand-made articles will be pleased with the color material. You can paint products after drying them, or add colorants to the ingredients, so that the ready-to-use mass for modeling is immediately a certain shade. As colorants food - powder, liquid, in tablets will approach. Tablets must be ground before cooking. Necessary ingredients:
- Three hundred grams of white flour and fine salt.
- Two hundred milliliters of water.
- Two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
How to do:
- Mix flour, salt, water, mix a steep, thick dough that will not stick to your hands.
- Divide the mass into parts: there should be as many as you want to get the colors.
- Take a piece of the finished material, with the tip of the finger make a groove. There, pour water on the tip of a teaspoon. Top with a powder or pour liquid dye - it must dissolve, absorb.
- Again start kneading the dough until the mass is completely dyed. If it slightly dries, add a little vegetable oil.
- Repeat the same procedure with the rest of the pieces.
- Fold in a bag, leave in the refrigerator until the next day. Done!
How to color a dough for children
Staining finished products is another pleasant moment that adults and children like. If we talk about colors, then the usual gouache or acrylic is best. Still you can use golden, silvery paint. To make the thing durable, coat the painted product with varnish. You can also decorate the product with beads, paillettes, rhinestones, beads, taking into account the preferences of the kids.
How and how much to dry the dough in the oven
After molding is the next important stage of creating crafts - they need to be dried. To do this, you can use the oven. At room temperature, one millimeter of material dries in a day. Do not dry the caked things in the microwave - they can crack and lose a pleasant appearance. Drying in the oven is better than other methods. Several rules for the drying of finished products:
- The approximate time of finding items in the electric oven at a temperature of 75 and 100 degrees is one hour, at 120 - half an hour, at 150 - half an hour. In a gas oven, drying will take about twice as long.
- Pay attention to the size: if the thing has overall dimensions, the more time it will take. Monitor the temperature by opening the door.
- Periodically turn the product over.
- If you decorated a thing with decorative materials, such as rhinestones, beads, you can not put the temperature above one hundred and twenty degrees.
- Place the food foil on the baking tray: then the crafts will not stick.
What can be done from the salt dough
Many interesting things can be made from a salted dough. It can be jewelry - intricate earrings, beautiful pendants, beads for bracelets. The material is perfect for creating children's toys - animal figures, fairy-tale characters, different objects. Experienced needlewomen are able to make real works of art using such a dough: beautiful paintings, panels are very popular. A few more ideas for creating different things read below.
Imprints and Imports of Handles and Legs
The first months and years of life of a small child is growing rapidly. At this time young couples want to capture the baby, to remember it forever at this age. Almost every family now has a camera, so the needlewomen come up with other original ways of doing this. For example, parents can leave fingerprints of the handle or legs of the baby on a salt test. When a child grows up, it will be interesting to see it.
Paintings and panels
The voluminous paintings made with the help of salted dough look amazingly beautiful. Such things will become a wonderful decoration of the interior and will amaze guests who will see them. In addition, a panel made by hand can serve as a wonderful gift for any celebration - birthday, wedding. Unusual pictures for a long time will please the recipient of the gift.
Figures and flowers
Creation of figurines, modeling of plants calms and brings real pleasure. The needlewoman can make things using a salt test alone or with children. Having tried once to make such figures, the kids will get carried away with this activity with pleasure. It will be even more interesting to paint the resulting products from an unusual material.
Video master class: how to prepare salted dough
It can be difficult for beginners to immediately make a good salty dough, especially for master classes with photos. It is much easier to understand the principle of cooking, see the corresponding video. The presenter of the next roller prepares the material for modeling, using simple ingredients: vegetable sunflower oil, salt, flour, water, food coloring for coloring. Most of the components for a salt test can be found in every needlewoman at home. See a video that will help you easily create a plastic, good color material for practicing modeling: