Cool toys made from dough. DIY salt dough crafts, photo

Good afternoon, today we have finally completed a large selection of ideas for New Year's crafts made from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. Here you will find Christmas tree decorations made from dough, pendants, decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters made from dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other children's crafts made from dough, suitable for activities in the garden 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. Salted rye dough holds its shape better.
• Salt (finely ground, such as “Extra”) – 1 cup
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (so as not to stick to your hands), or 1 tbsp. hand cream
• PVA glue 2 tablespoons - optional, you can do without it.
• Water - how much the dough will take. Add gradually, kneading the dough into a tight, plastic lump.

First, mix the dry ingredients - salt, flour.

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

Store the finished dough tightly wrapped in cling film and placed on a shelf in the refrigerator.

PAINTING RULES

Method 1 - paint the dough itself. You can color the dough with food coloring or salt dyes for Easter eggs. COLORS are also suitable - jars of dyes from a hardware store; they are used to tint white wall paint to 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 fixed with hairspray from a can.

RULES OF STYLE.

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

As you sculpt the craft, keep a bowl of water nearby to wet your hands or the dough itself to prevent it 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 radiator, in the oven (130-140 degrees).

Flat dough shapes.

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

The simplest version of a dough craft is a flat silhouette covered with paint, with or without a pattern. Roll out the dough into an even layer, cut out shapes, and dry. If you like ideal shapes, then I suggest you sand the dried part with sandpaper (sandpaper), sold in a hardware store for pennies. This way you will get a perfectly smooth surface of the craft.

We cover the salt dough figurine with paint of a background color (gouache, acrylic, even construction acrylic works great). Let's dry it. Against this background we draw multi-colored patterns. Let's dry it. Seal with hairspray (or acrylic varnish).

Here's a great idea for a children's craft made from salt dough for the New Year - a Bullfinch bird made from the outline of a child's palm. Place your palm on the cardboard, trace it with a pencil, and cut it out. We place 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, carefully lifting the layer of dough above the table without stretching it.

And now I want to tell several important tricks, secrets and nuances, which will help you immediately achieve a good, bright result in your work on New Year’s dough crafts.

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

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

We paint all the details of the drawing with gouache, like a contour painting, without being afraid to climb onto the black edge of the outline. Drying the paint.

And then we go over all the edges with a black bold marker. This way the outlines of the drawing will become clearer (see the photo below, where the windows and doors of the salt dough houses are drawn exactly like this)

THE SECRET of choosing colors for coloring dough crafts.

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

The dough star craft with a penguin 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 CONTRASTING to each other.

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

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

How to paint with an embossed pattern.

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

After pressing the relief design, we apply paint inside the relief, giving the entire craft beautiful retro style.

How to color the salt dough itself.

First we make regular salt dough. Dough natural color. Then, at the bottom of the glass, add food coloring powder in a couple of drops of water. And add this mixture to a small piece of dough. Knead evenly with your hands (your hands will also be colored, it’s okay, everything will wash off). We get a colored lump of dough - from it we make colored elements to decorate the dough craft (such as these buttons on the mittens below).

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

Depending on the amount of dye, you will get a bright, juicy color (like the carrot on the nose of the dough snowman) or a pale pastel shade (like the salt dough owl in the right photo). As you can see, it’s easy to do everything yourself. Even children will be happy to help mix the dye - they are fascinated by the process of color spreading 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 salted figurine into clear sectors (as was done for the heart-shaped crafts in the photo below) and paint each sector with its own color. A beautiful and bright DIY New Year's craft made from salt dough that looks like a factory stamp. Nicely done.

In the same way 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, place it on its edge, slightly bending it, and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth groove line (as is done on the Christmas tree toys made from dough in the photo below).

We make round grooves in the form of a ring using caps from medicine bottles, caps of felt-tip pens and other things.

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

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

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

The varnish coating (especially in several layers) makes the craft sparkle as if it were made of ceramics with ceramic glaze.

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

Crafts from dough for the New Year

with rhinestones and sequins.

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

Decoupage technique

On crafts made from salt dough.

Flat dough silhouettes can be an excellent background for printing a picture from paper napkins. The technique is called decoupage. And you don’t need anything special for it, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and a napkin with a pattern and hairspray for finishing.

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

Apply a layer of PVA glue to the surface of the dough piece. We separate the thin top paper layer from the napkin with the pattern and place it on top of the glue, carefully straightening the delicate paper, not allowing it to form wrinkles or creases.

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

Salt Dough Tools

(knives and scissors for decorating crafts)

In the photo below we see how interesting it is to use a knife and ordinary scissors when making crafts from salt dough. The point of a knife creates a triangular depressed silhouette, and scissors can be used to cut the dough into protruding sharp pieces of the same shape.

This technique with scissors comes in handy when you need to create feathers on bird crafts made from salt dough. Current craft for the New Year of the Rooster.

Salt dough weaving

For the New Year.

Here is an example of how you can make it yourself made from salt dough KNITTED HEART. First, we sculpt long sausage ropes from the dough with our hands.

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

We lay 2 twisted strands next to each other - sideways to the barrel - choosing their arrangement so that the turns of each adjacent strand face in the opposite direction. That is, one harness with a diagonal turn down left, and the other harness with a diagonal turn down right. Thus, 2 strands laid side by side form the illusion of ONE BRAID.

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

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

You can make an ordinary braid (from three sausages) from salt dough, put it in a ring and decorate the craft as a Christmas wreath. Form pink petals from round cakes of dough and place them on the rose. Leave the leaves with veins pressed out with the edge of a knife.

Braided dough crafts can be decorated with silhouettes cut out with cookie cutters, such as stars. Below we see a master class on carefully painting dough crafts

After drying, we cover each element with thick gouache, choosing a painting design to suit your taste. You can add glitter elements and beaded sprinkles.

Dough crafts

With relief patterns.

(embossing method).

Here is a decorative method for crafts made from salt dough that all children really like. They are delighted with the openwork pattern that, as if by magic, appears on the salt dough.

The easiest way to make a pattern on salt dough with your own hands is to use button prints. We take large buttons without holes - using double-sided tape we stick them onto ordinary wine corks - and we get convenient 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 prints of large metal buttons with a relief convex pattern - antique.

You can use grandma's in the same way. 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 the salt dough Christmas tree craft is made using thick cardboard (or a rubber mat), which is rolled into a tube to form a curl at the end of the jacket. And this curl was applied to the salted dough rolled out on the table. The result was simple and beautiful. An excellent children's craft for a competition at school or kindergarten.

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

You can also use RELIEF TEXTILES - napkins, tablecloths, and curtains with fringe. You can buy lace with a relief pattern in the store, or look for its elements in a drawer with beautiful lingerie.

Just place the openwork on the rolled out dough. And we roll over it with the same stick-rolling pin. If you don’t have a rolling pin in your house (you’re such a housewife, 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 went back to Soviet times - but for New Year’s crafts with your own hands, you can buy a couple of elegant polyethylene napkins.

Here are the patterned things you can make from plastic Chinese napkins.

How to do it right

paint a dough craft

WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.

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

Here’s how: first, paint the entire craft one color with a brush; use the brush to get into all the recesses of the pattern. Let it dry until the paint is completely dry.

And then we take paint 1-2 shades lighter (or a different color altogether) and work not with a brush, but with a foam sponge or makeup 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 press into the grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get uniform coloring of the entire craft.

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

And here (in the photo below) is another original-colored and original-pressed craft made from salt dough. As far as I understand, this relief on the star craft was made with the help bags a la snake or crocodile skin. The surface of the bag was applied to the dough. All this was drying. And then they painted with a brush and sponge in several shading passes. Please note that not all places were painted with a blue brush; somewhere there was a brush with white paint. And then everything was powdered on top with soft white paint using a foam sponge.

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

And nature itself can give us its stamps to imprint the New Year's mood on dough crafts. Branches of evergreen fir, imprints of cones and dry, stringy leaves. Even at home in a flower pot you can find a source of beautiful floral patterns.

Puff pastry crafts

with your own hands for the New Year.

Look at the layered beauty you can make with your own hands. How beautiful DOUBLE-LAYER CRAFTS made from salt dough look. The bottom base layer is made without a pattern, in a single color. We dry this layer thoroughly, then sand its surface with sandpaper (or pumice for heels, this is also good). We cover the sanded base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform coloring (you can use a foam sponge rather than a brush or spray paint from a spray can).

The top patterned layer of the craft is made from salted dough with a relief imprint. By the way, you can make very beautiful prints using antique tin trays with relief engraving on metal. Your grandmother or elderly neighbor may have just such a tray. Your neighbor will let you use it for a chocolate bar if you clearly explain to the alarmed old lady that in 5 minutes you will return the valuable rarity to the owner. If she doesn’t trust you, invite her to your kitchen-workshop, let her see how her tray helps create a New Year’s miracle.

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

First we make a relief imprint USING WIRE. Yes, ordinary wire on a flat table is twisted in different winding directions, forming a flat pattern of twisted paths.

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

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

You can and should decorate multilayer crafts with beads. Beads can be placed on glue, or you can also string a bead onto a wire, twist the ends of the wire together, pierce the dough piece and spread the ends apart (spread apart). This type of wire fastening of beads is used in the craft in the photo below.

Here we see an example of a craft made 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 the 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 place it in puff tiered flowers for the New Year.

The flower petal layers can be glued together after drying - using hot thermal glue from a gun. Or for 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 volume has been added. Very interesting work. And in fact, making such a decoration for the Christmas tree with your own hands is not difficult.

Look, first we roll out the dough, then use a glass to cut out 2 rounds from it. In it

We find 2 Christmas balls of a suitable size. And we place our round pieces on the rounded belly of the Christmas ball. And we dry our workpiece like this right on the ball - so that it dries in the shape of a hemisphere (bowl). Next, 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 round piece, when placed on a Christmas tree ball, takes up EXACTLY HALF of this ball), and does not go beyond the equator line, so to speak.

You can make any pattern of curls of salt dough on the surface of the round ball. How this one was done in the photo below. We place plastic film (non-fiber, food grade) on the ball, and add the elements of the pattern onto it. Dry on a ball. Then carefully remove and 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 salted dough, with an openwork pattern applied to it. Such a delicate, almost lace bas-relief can be made using the “liquid pattern” technique. We dilute the liquid salt dough and apply it with a pastry syringe or an envelope (a bag with a cut corner) - along the lines of the intended pattern.

First, let's sand the canvas - a dry, flat piece of salt dough. Then we draw the lines of the future drawing on it with a pencil, chalk, or felt-tip pen. 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 sample to see how you work best with plaster or batter. How it dries, cracks when dried, or holds its shape. Try making samples with different degrees of liquid (from very thick to thin).

So, with your own hands and your brains, you can come up with and further experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough. Try it. Create. Be mischievous. Play some pranks.

You can add dye to the batter (food grade, or color jars that are sold in hardware stores for diluting them in white paint). Crafts with such a liquid pattern can be made to imitate New Year's cookies, and sprinkle them with grains of coarse salt, imitating sprinkles of sugar.

Crafts made from salt dough

WITH HOLES.

You can make shaped holes on pendants for toys made from salt dough. 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. In the photo below we see an abbreviated master class - it immediately becomes clear how easy it really is to make such New Year’s beauty with your own hands.

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

Instead of a mosaic, you can pour regular COLORED COLOR CANDIES - that is, candies. They will also melt and fill the hole. It will turn out to be a beautiful DIY craft, but the children won’t lick it off with their tongues.

New Year characters

from salt dough.

You can make various New Year and winter characters from the dough. For example, a snowman or penguins.

You can mold ordinary shapes from the dough, and then use paint to make them resemble the desired character.

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

Complex STEP-BY-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. It requires painstakingness and perseverance to complete all the work detail by detail 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 effective and voluminous, you can also use dough to make a SUPPORT for it. That is, the background, for example, is in the form of a lush bow, like in the teddy bear craft from the photo below.

The rolled out salt dough is cut into strips - they form a lush bow. Place the teddy bear craft on top of the bow and dry it all together. Then we paint, using a brush to get into all the hard-to-reach places.

And here is an ANGEL craft made from salt dough, where our technique of relief imprinting is used - on the wings and on the tunic.

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

Santa Claus from salt dough is also made easily and in a variety of ways (as you already saw 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 the head of Santa Claus - with a star-shaped backing, as in the photo below.

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

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A wonderful entertainment and useful form of creative activity with a child is making crafts from salt dough. It also has another name - bioceramics. The main advantage of such creativity with children is unlimited opportunities for creativity and development of the child and, most importantly, complete safety for health.

The sculpted figures are heated in a microwave or oven, but can also be dried in air.

Salt dough: recipe

Do-it-yourself modeling dough has a huge advantage - it is very easy and quick to prepare from familiar ingredients that are found in every kitchen. A children's recipe for salt dough consists of only three ingredients: a glass of flour, a glass of salt, and half a glass of water. Take a large bowl, mix flour and salt in it, and then add water little by little, kneading a stiff dough.

After a few minutes of thorough kneading, the amazing creative material is ready!

What to make from salt dough? Master class No. 1

Whatever! Figures can be flat or voluminous, large or small, rough and more filigree. But for your first experiments with the test, we suggest using our master class. It will require:

• Salted play dough;
• Large cutters for creativity or cutting out cookies;
• Rolling pin (you can take a plastic or wooden one);
• Plastic knife;
• Thick paints (gouache or acrylic) and a brush.

Roll out the salt dough on the table to about 1 cm thick. Cut out the shapes using molds or a knife.

Give them volume and fine details by squeezing the desired elements onto the surface.

The figures are ready. Transfer them to foil and a baking sheet and dry them at low temperature in the oven for several hours until completely dry. The drying time for salt dough products depends on their thickness. Do not set the temperature too high, otherwise the crafts may burst. If you can't wait to continue working, wait until at least the outer layer has dried and start painting. You can dry the product completely later, on a radiator or in the sun.

To colorize crafts, we suggest coloring them with paints, but you can also use felt-tip pens. It is not recommended to use watercolors, because... it is very liquid and the figures may get wet. If you only have watercolor paints at your disposal, first dilute them with a few drops of water until thick, and you can paint.

Dough figures can be additionally decorated with glitter or other small decorations. If the figurine cracks or breaks, it’s okay! It can be glued with any sticky glue or glue gun.

Salt dough painting. Master class No. 2

To create a flower from salt dough in a wicker basket, in addition to the main components, you will need a wooden frame without glass, colored cardboard or paper for the background of the picture and a glue gun. Roll out the dough a little thinner: about 6-8 mm thick. Use a knife to cut out a trapezoidal basket (use any shape that you and your child like). Flowers can be sculpted by hand or using molds. The handle for the basket can be easily made from two strips of dough twisted into a spiral. Use a plastic knife and a pen cap to squeeze out small strokes on the surface of the dough - this will make the craft more “alive.”

We put the whole craft together to see what a flower would look like in a salt dough basket. But the elements need to be dried separately.

After drying, all elements need to be glued and painted (we used acrylic) and wait for the paints to dry completely. These steps can be swapped, that is, first glue, then paint, or vice versa, as is more convenient for you. Now take the frame, remove the glass from it, if there is any, and insert a rectangle of cardboard cut to the size of the inside of the frame onto the backing.

It is advisable to air dry the work and then, for best preservation, varnish it. You can use nail polish or water-based polish. The painting “flower in a basket with a butterfly” made from salt dough is ready!

We have given just a few examples of crafts made from this simple and affordable material. But children's modeling dough has many more possibilities: with its help you can endlessly learn, develop and create! Good luck!

Testoplasty is a new exciting type of needlework that involves creating a wide variety of paintings from salt dough. If earlier this type of needlework was intended to develop fine motor skills in children, today it is a full-fledged form of art. Adult handicraftsmen create entire paintings from this material.

Why has dough modeling become so popular? There are a number of reasons for this:

1. It's inexpensive. If any other handicraft, be it embroidery, knitting or drawing, requires the purchase of high-quality tools and materials, then for this handicraft you only need flour and salt;
2. It doesn't require any special skills. It is not at all necessary to graduate from an art history department or a sculpture school to create masterpieces;
3. It develops. Modeling promotes the development of thinking, imagination, and the ability to compose a composition;
4. This improves spatial thinking. With the help of sculpting you can learn to convey shapes, proportions and colors.

Modeling dough has been popular for a long time. The history of this handicraft goes deep into history. Even with the advent of the first flour (about 6,000 years ago), people began to sculpt various figures from ready-made dough, and later they became the first amulets, along with herbs and stones.

Very often, for a skillfully molded amulet or figurine, people received the equilibrium price in gold.

Today such paintings are very popular among craftswomen and needlewomen. They usually consist of a canvas (sheet of cardboard, canvas, etc.) on which various pictures are sculpted. They are not flat, but voluminous due to the texture of the material. Products are painted or varnished to subsequently decorate interiors. Testoplasty is a full-fledged art form that you should definitely try!

Preparing salted dough for modeling is very simple. All that is needed is:

• flour – 0.2 kg;
• salt – 0.2 kg;
• water – 125 ml;
• vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.

If you need to immediately get a multi-colored product, then you need to add a dye that dissolves in water to this recipe.

There are two methods of kneading. Both of them are good and are chosen according to personal preference:

1. Salt is mixed with flour until smooth (fluffed with a blender if desired), and then water is gradually added to this mixture. The dye is water soluble;
2. Salt and dye are dissolved in water, and then flour is gradually introduced into it.

The resulting mass must be mixed vigorously. First, the dough must be brought to a state in which it will not stick to your hands, and then beaten on a wooden or iron surface. If it starts to crumble, then you need to add water, and if it sticks to your hands, add flour. After kneading, it is very advisable to keep the finished material in a bag in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours. And after that you can start sculpting.

A simple DIY painting “Cat” made from salt dough

This work is done on a wooden background or on a cutting board. Transferring the drawing is not required, so the work is performed based on the sketch.

You will need:

• background or board;
• watercolor and gouache paints;
• paint brushes;
• salt dough;
• PVA glue;
• clear varnish;

Master class with step-by-step photos:

How to make a picture with flowers from salt dough

“Daisies in a vase” is the name of this painting, and it is done quite simply.

You will need:

• cling film or cellophane;
• salt dough;
• cardboard sheet or wooden strip for background;
• matter (optional) for background;
• toothpick;
• brush;
• nail scissors;
• water.

Step by step process with photos:

1. The salt dough is prepared according to the standard recipe and is divided into three parts: one larger one for the flowers, the second for the base for the flowers and the third for the vase. Cling film or cellophane is spread over a wooden background;
2. A vase is formed from a piece of dough. It can be whatever the needlewoman wants. Here it is formed from 3 parts: the base is made from a large piece (it is rolled out and shaped like a vase), the stand and handle are made from two smaller pieces;
3. Using a knife, a design was made on the vase;
4. Next, flowers are made;
5. An oval is rolled out from the second part and placed on top of the vase - flowers will be attached to it;
6. A small piece of dough is rolled into a slightly flat ball;
   
7. It is “cut” into petals with nail scissors;
   
8. Then, using your thumb and index finger, the “square” petal is slightly compressed and shaped. These steps must be repeated with each petal;
   
9. The result is voluminous petals;
   
10. Using a toothpick, veins are made on the petals;
    
11. The place where the flower should be located is slightly moistened with water and the flower is placed there. It needs to be pressed down lightly using the back of the brush;
12. Roll a small piece of dough into a ball - this will be the core of the flower;
    
13. The core also needs to be slightly pressed down;
    
14. And lightly prick the petals at the junction with the base with the sharp end of a toothpick so that they connect;
    
15. Repeat this procedure with all the flowers;
16. Once the painting is ready, it must be left to air dry until completely hardened;
17. As soon as the dough dries, turn the painting over onto a soft surface with the dough facing down and carefully peel off the film;
18. The background is covered with coarse fabric (burlap, linen) on both sides;
19. Spread the back surface of the work (i.e. dough) with glue. It is best to take "Dragon". And, without lifting the product, attach it to the fabric. Those. the lubricated surface itself sticks to the fabric;
20. Then the work is painted or varnished as desired;
21. After the paint has dried, you can attach a frame to the background.

How to make a picture with a salt dough basket

The painting is done on a large sheet of parchment paper - it comes off easier after drying, without spoiling the painting itself. You can also use cling film or do the work on a ready-made background.

You will need:

• ingredients for the dough or ready-made salt dough;
• parchment paper – 1 sheet;
• sharp knife or stacks;
• garlic press;
• paper basket and leaves template;
• paints and brushes;
• water for wetting;
• cloves – 3-4 pcs.

Master class on creating a painting with your own hands:

Some useful tips for needlewomen:

Cooking with salt dough is fun. You can involve children of all ages in this activity and it will become not only entertaining, but also useful!

Another tutorial on making flowers from salt dough is in the following video.

You can make various souvenirs from this unusual material, and then paint them. It is strong and durable and can please a person for many years.

How to prepare play dough

It turns out that you can not only bake pies and cakes from the dough, but also make wonderful paintings, toys and much more. It’s easy to sculpt from it, almost like plasticine, and the dried toy becomes hard and, unlike plasticine, will not melt in your hands. Salt dough makes wonderful and original surprise gifts, and you can prepare such modeling material quite quickly. In addition, it will not require much expense from you - everything you need for this exciting work will probably be found in your home.

Of course, the composition of this magical dough is different from the one from which grandmothers bake cheesecakes. There is no single, “correct” recipe; each master uses his own. We will try to stick to one of the directions, but if you want, you can experiment with the proportions of water, flour and salt. Just make sure there are no cuts or abrasions on your hands, otherwise salt may get into the wound.

For work we will need:

- flour -1.5 cups;

- salt - 1 glass;

- water - 1 glass;

- dry wallpaper glue - 1-2 tbsp. l.;

- sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. l.;

- mixing utensils;

- rolling pin;

- cutting board or any smooth surface;

- plastic bag for storage.

Operating procedure

1. Pour flour and salt into a container and carefully add water little by little (be sure to first flour, then water, and not vice versa, otherwise lumps may form) and mix. If lumps form in the dough, knead them with your hands. So we mix the whole dough until it becomes soft and homogeneous in composition.

2. Add sunflower oil to this mass so that the dough does not stick to your hands, and wallpaper glue so that the dough becomes like plasticine, bendable and elastic. Mix all this thoroughly again and knead the remaining lumps.

3. Now take the dough and place it on a cutting board. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough several times to completely eliminate the possibility of lumps appearing.

4. Place the dough in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. After an hour, the dough is ready to use.

During modeling, you should not take all the dough out of the bag at once - it will quickly dry out in the air. It is better to pinch off the necessary pieces and cover the rest with a bag. If there is dough left after modeling, you can put it in the refrigerator - there it can be stored for several days.

If your hands are wet, the dough will stick to them. You need to dust them with flour. And in order to fasten the parts together, on the contrary, the dough needs to be wet. To do this, we wet the parts that we want to glue together using ordinary water and a paint brush.

After the dough figures are molded, you need to dry them; this can be done in two ways.

Method one- just leave the toy at room temperature to dry for 3-4 days or more - it all depends on the size of the toy and the temperature of the room.

Method two- roasting in the oven. Place the toy on a baking sheet and place in a preheated oven. The temperature should not be very high, it is better to bake on low heat for 30-60 minutes. The figurine is ready when it acquires a light brown tint, but in no case dark.

It is best to paint a toy with tempera or acrylic paints, as they are the most durable - watercolor will look pale and absorb quickly, and gouache will leave marks on your hands.

The finished product can be coated with clear varnish if desired. And remember, although toys may look durable, they will actually break easily if accidentally dropped on the floor. Therefore, do not leave them on the edge of the table or in places where they can easily break. Glue the salted figures onto frames and pictures securely, so that they do not fall over time.

DIY salt dough gifts. Step-by-step master classes

Modeling figures from salt dough or dough plastic is a very exciting activity that does not require special skills or special financial investments. Salt, water and flour are the main ingredients for this type of needlework. The dough turns out soft and pliable, allowing even beginners to make wonderful crafts.

First, you can sculpt the simplest figures, then try to make more complex products: small souvenirs, dolls and even three-dimensional paintings. By gaining a little experience and using your creative imagination, you can make real works of art! In addition, by doing various crafts with your children, you will not only teach them creative work and develop fine motor skills, but also enjoy precious minutes of communication.

Our master class and several interesting ideas will help you complete simple crafts, and the necessary tips will make this creative process as fruitful and exciting as possible.

There are quite a lot of recipes for modeling salt dough. Depending on the scale of the crafts, salt, flour and water are mixed in different proportions, and, among other things, additional ingredients are added to the dough: glycerin, glue, vegetable oil, starch and even hand cream. For beginners, it is recommended to make the dough according to the classic recipe. To do this, mix flour and salt in equal proportions with the gradual addition of cold water. For example, for 200 g of salt and 200 g of flour you will need 125 g of water.

Advice for beginners!

1. Flour should be regular rye or wheat flour without adding baking powder or other ingredients.
2. It is best to take fine-grained salt and in no case iodized. To better dissolve the salt, some needlewomen add a little water to it before mixing it with flour.
3. To ensure that the dough is homogeneous, it is recommended to use a mixer.
4. To please children during the modeling process and to add color to the product, you can add food coloring to the dough.
5. For better adhesion of individual parts of the craft to each other, moisten them with a brush.
6. It is best to dry the product in an oven preheated to 50-60 degrees. Depending on the size of the craft, this procedure may take about 1 hour or more.

Master class on making mukosolek

In addition to flour, water and salt, the following equipment will be needed for the master class:

• modeling board;
• small rolling pin;
• small knife;
• a toothpick or ballpoint pen for small holes and patterns;
• water container;
• brush and paints;
• coating varnish.

Depending on what kind of figures you will make, you may need cookie cutters, beads, buttons, and leaves of different shapes to create impressions.

1. Roll out the prepared salt dough into a layer half a centimeter thick.
2. Using cookie cutters, cut out the desired number of shapes. Using a toothpick or a pen refill, make holes in the figures in order to thread ribbon loops through them. Decorate crafts using beads, buttons, or tree leaves as stamps.
3. Preheat the oven, line the bottom of a baking sheet with tracing paper or special baking paper.
4. Place the figures on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until the dough hardens.
5. Place the mucosols on a flat surface and paint with colors of your choice.
6. To add shine to finished products, coat them with varnish.

Flour pickles can be made using a small knife, cutting out all kinds of elements. For example, you can make a hanging house for children for the New Year tree or a funny cat with rope paws. A salty pancake can make a cute owl if you fold its three edges and cut out eyes and a nose.

The materials and equipment needed to create such a funny lamb will be the same as in the previous master class.

1. Knead the dough according to the classic recipe and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
2. Make 4 small balls from the dough for future lamb legs.
3. To make the body, roll a sheet of foil into a ball and cover it with a salted dough pancake. Place the resulting ball on the legs.
4. Make a lamb's head, horns, ears and eyes from the dough. Use small balls of dough to form the fur of the toy.
5. Dry the salted dough lamb in the oven for 2.5-3 hours, and then let it cool for 30-40 minutes.
6. Paint and varnish the toy.

Modeling three-dimensional panels and paintings from salt dough

As a rule, salt dough is used for paintings according to the following recipe: one glass each of salt and flour, 1 tbsp. water. For beginners, it is best to use a small number of salted figures in the painting, decorating the rest of the space with decorative materials. It is best to make salted parts on foil so that their back surface is perfectly flat and easily glued to the field of the picture.

Possible problems for beginners when making crafts from salt dough

1. After painting, the products cracked.
2. Clean the craft with sandpaper, dry it in fresh air and paint it again.
3. The crafts cracked due to their great thickness.
4. Remove excess dough from the back. If the figure is large, it needs to be turned over periodically when drying.
5. If a part breaks off from the toy, glue it together with PVA glue or decorate it with a suitable decoration.