Crafts from salted dough with their own hands. Crafts for the holidays

From this article you will learn how to make a salt dough on your own and how to dry it. A lot of photos and step-by-step instructions will help you to make a dummy from a test for any holiday.

For practicing modeling with young children, it is better to use salty dough or plasticine "Play"Dоh. "

How to make a dough for crafts? Recipe

The dough can be made by yourself, for this you will need just a few simple ingredients: flour, salt, citric acid, vegetable oil and water.

Mix first a glass of flour with 0.5 cups of salt and 2 teaspoons of citric acid. Pour into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of oil to the dry mixture. Put on medium heat, gradually pour in water and mix. The water should go no more than 0.5 cup. When the mass lags behind the walls of the pan and becomes one lump, remove the pan from the fire. Mass it out, put it on the dostuchku, sprinkled with flour, and, like a regular dough, knead with your hands.

If you want to make a colored dough for modeling, in water you first need to dilute the dry food color. You can also add a little gouache to the finished dough and knead it well, so that the color becomes homogeneous.

How to prepare a salted dough for modeling?

Prepare the salted dough. Color it in different colors, depending on what you want to dazzle. The dough can be made unpainted, divided into balls and in each add a little gouache of the right color and knead. It is better to make a dough of ordinary colors, and then mix them to achieve the desired.

Keep the dough in a bag, or wrap it in a food film, you can put it in a closed container so that it does not dry out. If it still dried, add a little water, and if it is too wet, add a little flour.

Crafts from salted dough and plasticine: tips

1. Make the dough longer and just spread it on the base of the craft, so you can make butter on a slice of bread, or make a chocolate glaze for a cake
2. from a brown dough. Try on the food you made with the toy plates, which you will then play to match them in size
3. To attach parts of the salted dough to each other, use a wet brush. Spread the joint with a brush, and stick the parts together
4. When molding food for dolls, it is very important to make the dough of the same color as the original, for example, the carrot should be orange, not yellow or red.
5. So that the colors do not turn pale, open the craft with varnish. For lessons with children you need to use special harmless varnishes, they do not have an unpleasant smell, because they are made on a water basis.

Dry the figures from the salted dough for molding

There are two ways to dry the crafts made from salted dough.

1. Dry hand-made articles in the air. It is best if you put them on a smooth surface and leave for a few days. When the craft is dry, turn it over or put it on its side to dry it from all sides.
2. Baking in the oven. Well warm up the oven, put baking paper on the baking tray, lay out the crafts on top, put it in the oven and turn off the fire. The oven must be closed and not opened until completely dry. You can still bake crafts at a temperature of 100 ° C, but in this case, they need to be monitored so that they do not burn

. These two methods can be combined, for example, to dry an hour in the oven, then leave on air, after a while still in the oven, and so on.not dry.

Of course, if there are other decorations( beads, beads) in the handicraft, you need to dry it in the first way.

New Year crafts from salted dough

The child will like to decorate the house before the New Year and do handmade crafts with his parents.

Toys for the Christmas tree from the dough

You can make excellent Christmas toys from the salted dough, and even the kids can cope with their manufacture.

1. Prepare the dough for molding different colors or unpainted
2. Roll out the cake and squeeze out the figure, you can use the molds to cut out the biscuits
3. Make a cocktail tube of the hole to then hang the figure on the Christmas tree
4. Color the toy as you want with the child: stick the multicolored pellets-flat cakeson the tree, make it a garland, let the rain, add a white snowball on the toy
5. Unpainted dough can first be dried, and then painted with paints or markers
6. Dry themhundred or bake in the oven
7. Pass the ribbon through the hole and hang the toy on the Christmas tree

You can make a lot of holes in the figures.

Or poke beads, beads and other beautiful pebbles into the dough, but in this case it is impossible to bake these toys in the oven.

You can decorate toys with ribbons or decorative ropes.

After the dough has dried, apply PVA glue on it and sprinkle the pieces with glitter.

Paint an unpainted dried dough with a permanent marker.

Cut a figurine in the shape of a glove and make it a beautiful colored ribbon of colored dough and decorate it with a self-made button. Such a figure can be baked in the oven.

Print the palm of the baby and draw in it Santa Claus - it will not only be a wonderful toy for a Christmas tree, but it will remain a memory.

You can still make this kind of toy-Santa Claus. To make him a beard, use garlic.

Do more gingerbread toys made of brown dough.

We are making a New Year candle from the test

To make a New Year's candle you will need a dough for molding different colors, a cardboard cylinder, for example, from a roll of paper napkins and napkins of red and yellow.

• Allow the child to roll multicolored sausages.
• Emboss with our cardboard base

• Decorate it with multi-colored balls
• You can just stick a cardboard cylinder in one color and then decorate it

• Make a fire of napkins and fasten it at the top of our candle

Christmas tree of the test

• Make a preform under the tree, you will needcardboard packaging for juice or milk. Cut first its top, cut along the lateral folds, open. Of the rectangles, you need to trim the excess so that the isosceles triangles are obtained. See how to do it on the diagram below.

• Glue the cardboard base for your Christmas tree.

• . Now let the child decorate it: let it stick it with a green test - you will have a Christmas tree. It remains only to add to it balls, garland, star, and do not forget about gifts under the Christmas tree

You can still make this herringbone

Easter souvenirs from the salted dough

On Easter you can make the following crafts from the salted dough:

• Painted eggs from the pellet dough

• Figuresbunnies, cut from a cake of salted dough.
• Colorful voluminous easter egg

• Stand for eggs

Easter eggs from dough

Even a crumb can cope with this task.

• Take the dough, dazzle it with a figure in the shape of an egg.
• Decorate it like you and your child will want.

You can use mixed dough of different colors for the base, you can make a base of unpainted and then paint with paints or markers. Open the eggs with glue and sprinkle with cosmetic sequins. Glue the colored balls, to do this, moisten the place of connection with a wet brush. Press the beads, pasta, cereals, and other ornaments into the eggs. Make prints with different objects.

In general, fantasize!

Stand for eggs from the test

For this you will need a cardboard cylinder, dough and paints.

Cover an uncapped dough with a cropped circle of cardboard, blinding the tail, head and other parts, as shown in the diagrams below.

Do not forget to cover the stand on all sides with a test.

Paint a fancy as prompted by fantasy, you can use gouache or watercolor paint.

Open the varnish on a water basis, so that the colors become brighter and the artwork is preserved for a longer time.

Crafts from the test on February 14 for Valentine's Day

What does everyone associate with this wonderful holiday? Of course the heart! Let's blend a festive heart with a child and give it to his parents.

Heart from the salted dough

Here as everywhere everywhere we first make the foundation, in our case the heart, and decorate it!

You can decorate with roses, it will be very beautiful. How to sculpt a rose, see step by step instructions with the photo below.

You can make such a trinket with paws.

Here are such cute couples done very quickly and simply.

You can make many such heart-shaped figures, make holes in them and make them a garland, which decorate the wall in the house.

Photo frame from the test

Make an empty heart, decorate it and use it as a frame for a family photo, on the reverse side, fix with colored cardboard.

Decoration from a salted dough

This is the love of the fish that will necessarily come to my mother along this holiday.

Crafts from the test for March 8

On March 8, you can make moms, grandmothers, aunts and sisters such butterflies-flowers. They can be done with younger children. You can use a multi-colored dough or unpainted, and then paint it with colors.

You can dazzle a gift with a flower candlestick.

Do with the children such interesting medals, and most importantly all different. Let the child give them himself.

Blind figurines in the form of a figure-eight and decorate with flowers, stones, beads, in general, which is enough for fantasy.

Make a pendant with the child, for example, in the form of a heart and decorate it: blotch flowers, leaves, paint, sign a congratulation.

Roses from the salted dough

• We take the dough for molding the colors needed
• We mold the cone

• Roll the ball, flatten it carefully into the round cake
• Stick the ball to the cone

• Make the second ball and glue on the other side - we got the bud
• We make a few more balls andwe also mold the petals from them. We catch them in a circle

• The upper edges of the petals are slightly bent backwards, and the sides are pressed to the center of the

• . Make a few near, looking how magnificent you want to get a flower.

Rosochka is ready!

If necessary, make a leaf from a green dough, press the veins with a toothpick. Make legs of sausages. Connect all the parts in one flower.

Crafts from the test by February 23

For men on February 23, you can make this card with the children.

This is such a medal is sure to like.

The airplane is made from salted dough

A wonderful gift for a dad or grandfather will be an airplane made from salted dough.

• Roll the base for the figurine - it will be the case of
• Bend a little one side of it - it will be the tail. Attach the remaining parts to it

• Roll the wheels for it and the

• liners. Walk in a damp brush and attach the parts to the

• . Blade and fasten the wings on the toothpicks as triangles

• . Make the propeller and attach it to the

• with a toothpick. Let the figure dry for a few days.

• gouache plane

Crafts from dough to carnival

Pancake week is an ancient holiday, which has many symbols and traditions. Crafts for this holiday are very diverse, you have plenty to choose from.

For the youngest, you can suggest making a sun, which symbolizes the onset of spring.

Here's the sun for older children.

Have the child prepare his own pancakes from salted dough.

Pancakes-trinkets

Panels and pictures from salted dough

With older children you can make a picture of a salted dough.

For example, it could be a fruit basket. Follow the step by step instructions with the photo below.

• Roll out the unpainted dough to a thickness of approximately 0.5 cm.
• Prepare a basket template and, with a dough, cut out a basket of it.
• Extrude the dough with a garlic clasp, twist it into the flagellum, stick it, moisten the junction before it, on the handle of your futurebaskets. You can add flagella to the rim of the

• . Using a stack or a knife, press the lines that simulate the basket weaving.

• . From the rolled out dough, squeeze out a mold or cut several leaves on the template. Sell ​​them streaks
• Stick the leaves on the basket

• Now prepare the fruit: apples, plums, grapes, etc. Roll balls of different sizes for them and give them the desired shape. For apples in a place where there was to be a dried inflorescence, stick a clove seasoning, apples will look like real
• Combine everything in one picture

• Leave your artifacts to dry for a few days, preferably in a natural way
• Paint yourself at your discretion

Here's a simpler picturedo with the little ones.

1. Draw a background for it
2. Draw outlines of figures-characters
3. Ask the child to stitch the dough without leaving the contour
4. Leave the painting to dry
5. When she dried, ask the child to paint the characters with paints
6. Draw the small details
7. Open the painting with varnish, put it in the frame and canhanging on the wall

Step-by-step crafts from the test

Below are a few step-by-step instructions with a photo for modeling of salted dough with children.

Beads from salted dough

1. We take color dough, you can have the same color, you can have different
2. We roll balls from it, preferably evenly and of equal size. You can make the size in descending order
3. Puncture the balls neatly in the center with a toothpick
4. Let's dry them for a few days in the air. Periodically turn them to different sides
5. When the balls dry, carefully remove the toothpicks
6. The resulting beads string on a string or ribbon
7. You can paint beads with colors or markers

Horseshoe from salted dough

1. Roll out the dough into a 1 cm thick cake
2. Attach the horseshoe pattern and cut with a knifefigurine
3. Blind leaflets, cut off excess, spin veins on them
4. Blind berries and a flower, make a hole in the burrs and stripes on the flower with a tooth-tooth
5. Smudgethose shoe with water, and shall cleave all the details
6. Toothpick make holes around the perimeter of the horseshoe. Make two through holes from the top to hang the figurine on the string
7. Leave the horseshoe to dry completely or bake in the oven
8. The dough can initially be taken in a certain color for each part, and you can paint it in the end with paints

Asterisk from the test

1. Roll the dough into a layer about 1cm thick
2. Cut out a biscuit shape with an asterisk or another figure
3. Lubricate the corners carefully with a wet finger so that they are smooth
4. We decorate the figure: make her eyes, mouth, nose, pierce the holes of the toothcleaning, add decorations
5. Bake in an oven or dried in air
6. We reveal varnish

Caterpillar of

test

1. We roll the sausage from the green dough
2. Cut it into equal circles, roll the balls of them
3. The balls are glued together, do not forget to moisten the joint place.
4. Make the caterpillar face
5. We pierce the figurine with a toothpick or pin in the place where we will fasten on the ring
6. Dry our craft

Apple from the salted dough

1. Roll out the dough ball in the form of a half apple. To ensure that the cut is flat, press it down to any smooth surface
2. Add a flat white center
3. Kataem from brown dough seeds for an apple and a ponytail. From the green we make the leaves
4. Collect the figurine and the sushi

Make-up from the salted dough - the hedgehog

• Form the unpainted dough and the head of the hedgehog

• Make him a spout and eyes, you can use black dough or pepper peas

• Manicure scissors cut the dough, making needles,them up. Second row cut in staggered order, and so to the end

• Leave the hedgehog to dry. When it completely hardens, you can paint it with paint and sprinkle with varnish

Salted pastry dough - animals

You can sculpt a lot of animals from a salty dough with children. Below are a few step-by-step instructions with the photo.

Sheep from the test

1. Roll 4 balls - this will be the legs of a sheep. Place them square, tightly pressing each other to each other( see the photo)
2. Fold a piece of foil and place it inside the dough cake. Roll the ball out of it - it will be the body of the lamb
3. Add the sheep's head, blind the eyeballs, from the horns and ears sausages
4. To simulate the wool, make a lot of small balls and stick them on the back of the figurine, squeezing them a little
5. Dry your craft and decorate with paints and/ or markers

Owl from the salted dough

1. Roll out the round lozenge
2. With a felt-tip pen, wave it, simulating the plumage
3. Screw the sides inside - these will be the wings of the
4. .a little stretched on the sides - this will be the head and ears
5. Print with the eye cap and toothpick add the beak
6. Dry and paint

The elephant from the test

1. Roll the ball, pull it out a little - this will be the body of the elephant
2. Make 4 thick sausages - these will be the legs
3. From one more bluish trunk
4. From a thin sausage make a tail
5. Roll out two flat cakes, put on them plates of smaller diameter and pink color - you will get ears
6. Collect all in one figure and do not forget about eyes
7. Dry the elephant and open with varnish

Crafts - cat

• Cut out cat template from cardboard

• Roll out the dough with a layer 0.5cm
• Attach the template and cut out the cat from the test

• Let the dough dry
• Sand the perimeter of the figurine with sandpaper.

Draw the cat with a pencil and then with paints, let it dry

Draw a picture in the frame

We make a fish from salted dough

1. Roll out the dough in a thickness of 0.5 to 1 cm
2. Cut out the fish
3. on the pattern. Decorate it: make the voluminous eyes, fins and tail, simulate scaled caps from felt-tip pens or other tools
4. Dry the figure and decorate it

We model the mushroom from the salted dough

Roll the ball and take it on one side - it will be the mushroom head

Make the sausage, on the one hand a little narrower than on the other - it's the

foot. Collect the figurine, for reliability you can pierce the toothpick

Let the mushroomsdry and paint it

Crafts from the dough - fruits and vegetables

From the salty dough you can mold many different vegetables and fruits with which you can then play and feed the dolls.

Remember that the colors of food for dolls should be as precisely tailored to the original.

Following the step-by-step instructions and photos, you can create interesting figures from the salted dough, which you can then give to friends and relatives for different holidays. We hope in this article you found a lot of interesting works and useful information. Exciting lessons and beautiful crafts!

VIDEO: Artwork from the salty test "Owl"