New Year's souvenirs made from dough. New Year's souvenir made of salt dough

Master class with a step-by-step photo "New Year's gifts" using the technique of molding from salt dough.

Testoplasty master class. Craft "New Year's clock"

The master class is designed for senior preschool children, teachers, and parents.

Purpose: This salt dough craft can be used as a New Year's gift or as a decoration for a kindergarten group for the New Year's holiday.

Target: to develop the aesthetic feelings of children, emotional and value orientations, to familiarize children with artistic culture.

Tasks:

· Develop children's independence and initiative, friendly relationships and cooperation with peers and adults.

· Develop spatial and imaginative thinking.

· To form the skill of carefully working with salt dough.

Develop the ability to assemble a whole from parts

· To foster a culture of communication, the desire to bring the product to the desired image.

You will need: For the dough (salt 1 tbsp, flour 2 tbsp, water by eye, 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil); foil, stack, paint, paintbrush, sippy glass.

New year clock

The alarm rings twelve times

New Year has come again

He boldly opened the doors to us

Entering the house without asking

And we will feel sad in our souls again

We will remember the old year

We will remember the old chimes

And the old firmament

Or maybe we want

Take back that year

In which I first saw

That gray firmament

But a year has passed

And he will never return

So we will meet friends with fun

Its new year and new hour.

Step-by-step execution process

So, you can make such an original composition of salt dough with a clock. You just have to work a little. First, prepare the salted dough for further sculpting. The recipe is as follows: 1 glass of salt, 2 glasses of flour, 1 glass of water and 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil. Next, knead the dough, bring it to the desired consistency so that it does not stick to your hands, and begin work.

1. Take a piece of foil and spread it on a baking sheet. Roll out a layer of dough and cut out the base of the house.

2. Determine the place for the clock and begin to roll out the 1 cm thick flagella and lay it out in the form of logs. Lubricate one side with water for stickiness. All excess must be carefully trimmed with a knife.

3. When the whole house is covered with sausage, define the window and roof with a flagellum. For the roof, we roll out the tourniquet and flatten it a little.

4.Next move on to the figures. As usual, the house has its own tenants. Anyone can be made. I made a snowman and a Christmas tree. I also painted icicles along the edge of the roof. I made a watch with numbers and arrows in the window.

Tatiana Glushkova

New Year is a fabulous holiday when you live in anticipation of a miracle and gifts. It is pleasant to receive gifts, gifts are pleasant to give. I would like to please not only relatives, but also colleagues at work, just acquaintances. As the old says true: "The best gift is a book," or a hand-made thing. And if it turns out quickly, beautifully, and, you must admit, not expensive, but at the same time original, that's great. Here are the Christmas gifts my pupils and I did it the other day. I borrowed the idea from the designer Anna Osokina.

For the manufacture of our souvenir need salty dough... (Flour - 5 tablespoons, salt - 9 tablespoons, water - 1/5 of a glass, food coloring)

Dough should not be sticky and should not be too hard.

Here are the koloboks US:

Then we took the cookie cutters and the fun began.

We were plucking off a large piece small piece of dough, rolled it into a ball and flattened it so that it was slightly larger than the mold.

I lightly sprinkled flour on the table so that dough does not stick to the surface.

We made not only a Christmas tree. Cut out a snowflake or an asterisk, and another month.

Children enthusiastically crumpled, rolled, sculpted.

Then they planted the finished forms on wooden skewers.

Here's what happened:

Let's leave our souvenirs for a few days to dry. And then decorate with beads, sequins or ribbons.

Do you know New Year is just around the corner? It seems today that autumn is still on the calendar, and you will be in time for everything, and tomorrow - bang-bang! - and winter has come, and time is running out. Yes, it's time to hurry up if you want to decorate the tree this year. Christmas toys made of salt dough! This is a completely accessible project that is 100% consistent with the contents of the family pocket and completely coincides with your handicraft skills. Well, seriously - all the necessary materials can be found at home (and if it is not possible, then most likely we will talk about paints, but they can be bought at the nearest stall, and if a package of gouache or a couple of tubes of acrylic is now not included in your financial plans, you can refuse altogether from painting toys and making them in such an emphasized eco-style), and even a child can roll out the dough and cut circles out of it with a glass (yeah, you don’t want circles? It means that your handicraft skills have stepped a little beyond the level of a beginner Pithecanthropus, and you are quite will be able to do New Year's miracles at the advanced level).

In general, fewer words, more action: - the most complete step-by-step guide with photo evidence, go under the cut and study it carefully. Join also New Year's marathon "Handmade Runet" vkontakte and show your finished toys in co-worker topic... Waiting for you!

Step 1 - dough

There is nothing difficult, the main rule is intuition. And even if the word "about" does not scare you, everything will work out.

Let's start with the fact that there are recipes on the Web - wagons and carts loaded with a slide. And all the very best, of course, are the best, proven, accurate and generally almost guarantee that New Year's toys from salt dough will be made by themselves, dry up and jump on the tree. We urge you to believe everyone, but do it your own way - listening to your intuition. We tell and show in pictures.

Necessary:

1/2 cup of "Extra" fine salt;

1/2 glass of water

1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;

about 2.5 cups flour.

We measure out the salt. Many sources write that it should be the most common small "Extra" and necessarily not iodized-fluorinated. Yeah, maybe there is. But the author of the master class does not have non-iodized salt at home and, as you yourself understand, her common sense does not allow leaving the house in the nasty frost and nasty slush to find non-iodized salt in the thirty-eighth supermarket. Believe me, with the one that is at hand, for some reason, it also works.

Yes, for haters of such a measure of volume as half a glass, we clarify: weighed, it turned out that salt was exactly 170 g.

If you don't have a food processor, you're out of luck - you have to play with your hands. Pour salt into the bowl in which you usually knead dumplings. If you are a chicken with a harvester, pour into the bowl of the harvester.

We measure out the water. Yes, half a glass. Happened 130 g water.

Bulk - to her salt, let them be friends.

Vegetable oil - to the same company. By the way, you can do it - if you are a greedy person and do not want to transfer precious olive oil to some kind of New Year's toys, and you didn’t have any cheap industrial palm and rapeseed oil in your home, don’t add it at all. Butter is needed for the dough to be slightly more elastic than it would be without oil, that's all. By the way, if you suddenly feel the urge to show miracles of unprecedented generosity and pour half a glass of butter into the dough at once (and why waste time on trifles, we measure everything with glasses here!), We warn you: such dough will dry until next New Year. So you better be greedy. Or think about the golden mean and add a spoon, just one tablespoon of oil.

Now is the time to turn on your intuition. Add flour. We immediately measure the glass (the scales said that it came out 160 g flour).

And into its water, right into the salt water.

Stir - it turns out thick, thick sour cream. You can't mold anything out of it! The photo is a little unclear, but the meaning is 100% clear - there is little flour, you don't have to be a professor of salt-toy business to understand this.

Therefore - boldly add another spoonful of flour, full-full ( plus 20 g flour).

We mix. Nothing like that, it already looks like something.

But in fact - not enough: the dough sticks to your hands and with all its appearance speaks of a personal unwillingness to turn into Christmas tree decorations.

Add another spoon ( plus 20 g flour).

Oh, this is already beautiful - the dough has gathered in a ball, nothing sticks to the walls.

We check - everything is also in perfect order in our hands.

Well, almost completely - nevertheless, some tiny particles still stick to your hands, so you can play it safe and knead another teaspoon of the dry component (plus 5 g of flour). Extremely intuitive.

By the way, the longer you knead, the better the flour gluten will develop and the easier it will be to work with the dough - so let the combine work hard, it won't be superfluous.

We check with our fingers - nothing sticks at all, the indentations in the dough do not blur, the pits "keep" their shape. It is worth stopping at this - an excess of flour will negatively affect the products, they will crumble, in the work such a dough is very, very nasty and complex.

One last test just in case - everything is fine.

Next - a proprietary secret: take a lump of dough and throw it with force on the table. Pull up again and throw again. Once again. And so - until you get bored, but at least 10-15 times - this way you will make it homogeneous, more elastic, pleasant and smooth.

Everything can be wrapped in a bag so that the dough does not wind up while you prepare for the second stage.

By the way, many sources say that the dough needs to mature, they suggest wrapping it in three rolls of cling film and hiding it in the refrigerator for at least a day, or better, almost a month. Vraki! No, of course, nothing bad will happen if you have a week in stock and you let the test lie down, but if you are impatient to work with it right now, if you cannot refuse your inspiration, then you don’t need to - let's do it right away !

Step 2 - cutting out the figures

This is perhaps the most interesting stage of the work - creative, creative, "clean" and simple.

There are three ways to go.

The first is not to cut figures out of salt dough, but to sculpt - remembering school labor lessons or Roni Oren's books, puff and try. In general, this is a very worthwhile and curious option, but on one condition: if the level of your skills is such that, when you are going to sculpt an elephant, you at least get a cat, and not, swinging a crooked hatchet, claim that this is actually a sleigh Santa Claus, then, of course, you can try.

The second is to print from the Internet or draw templates of flat New Year's toys yourself (Christmas balls, a sack of Santa Claus, bells-bells, stars-icicles, and then, following exclusively the call of love for art, apply the templates to the dough, carefully and almost jewelry cut them from using a knife, making sure to be especially careful when cornering: one awkward movement -

The third is not to reinvent the wheel and not discover America, but simply take cookie cutters and cutters for working with mastic and, resorting to their help, cut something simple, accessible and themed. With a special passion for creativity, you should reassure yourself with the hope that your needs will be fully realized at the stage of painting and painting.

So, we put a small piece of dough (we hide the rest in a bag, do not relax) on a surface lightly dusted with flour.

We roll it out as you want, the main thing is evenly, while remembering that the thicker the toy is, the longer it will take to dry it. The optimal size is 3 mm: it will not break anymore, but it will dry quickly.

Of course, not themselves: the use of child labor at this stage is encouraged and encouraged in every possible way. Mom needs to drink coffee sometime!

With a properly organized work process, everything will be done quickly and efficiently.

Do not forget to immediately make holes for future strings, which will help hang the toys from the tree.

Or a lot of holes - for reliability: so that there is exactly what to catch on to.

Please note that some cookie cutters leave "shreds" on the cut - if they are thin and small, they do not need to be removed, they will fall off during the drying process, and if it is more nutritious, then it is better to spend another five minutes and carefully cut everything off.

The output of products from the specified proportions.

Step 3 - drying

And here you have to slow down. If you want to cope with the task of making New Year's toys from salt dough in one day, you need to dry the products in the oven at the lowest temperature. Depending on the thickness of the toys, you will need 3-7 hours - put everything on a baking sheet, turn on the oven at 50-70 degrees, do not forget about the fan and wait, periodically opening the door to "release" moisture and occasionally turning the figures from side to side.

You can take an easier route - spread the toys on a sheet of parchment paper and leave them alone for a few days. Depending on the room temperature, you will need 3-5 days for the salt dough figurines to dry completely. Once a day, they need to be turned over to the other side - you will see how the color of the toy will change during the drying process: the wet spot in the middle will be yellower than the white dried edges.

Do not try to speed up the drying process of toys - they will either burn out (yes, this is possible!), Or become very deformed. Be patient, go for a walk, shake your abs, cook homemade marshmallows - in general, anything, just not to rush things.

Well-dried products are uniform in color, do not wrinkle or bend, light and pleasant.

Step 4 - painting and decorating

Do you need to tell something? Take acrylic, gouache or even watercolor, contours and varnishes, multi-colored rhinestones and beads, brushes and sticks, toothpicks and cotton pads, forks and markers, pencils and needles - everything that one way or another can be adapted for drawing.

And draw. Paint. Be creative. Decorate. Get creative. Create. Gush. Create. All in your hands.

It is convenient to immediately hang painted toys on all protruding parts of the house - for drying.

And the final decoration is after the first layer of paint has dried.

A very wonderful tool - spray paint: quick and easy. Lays down evenly, dries instantly, labor costs are minimal.

Children's creativity - it is so ... childish and wonderful!

Salted dough figurines can be used as Christmas decorations, as a decoration for self-wrapped gifts, and as figurines for other projects, such as Advent calendars.

Good afternoon, today we have finally completed a large collection of ideas for New Year's crafts from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. Here you can find Christmas decorations made of dough, pendants or decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters molded from dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other dough crafts for children, suitable for classes 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. We'll start with the recipe.

RECIPE FOR SALT BREATH

For New Year's crafts.

• Flour (wheat or rye) - 1 glass. It is rye salty dough that keeps its shape better.
• Salt (finely ground for example "Extra") - 1 glass
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (so as not to stick to your hands), or 1 tbsp. hand creams
• PVA glue 2 tablespoons - optional, without it.
• Water - how much the dough will take. Pouring gradually kneading the dough into a tight plastic lump

First, mix dry ingredients - salt, flour.

Add 1 tablespoon, rub with your hands. Add a spoon again and grind. We continue to pour 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 by wrapping it tightly in cling film and placing it on a shelf in the refrigerator.

PAINTING RULES

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

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

MODELING RULES.

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

As the crafts are sculpted, we hold a bowl of water next to it, moisten our hands or the dough itself from drying out. In the open air, the dough dries quickly and loses its elasticity.

RULES FOR DRYING CRAFTING.

It can be dried in the open air, on a radiator, in an oven (130-140 degrees).

Flat dough forms.

(Christmas crafts-toys for the Christmas tree).

The easiest way to make 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 the figures, dry. If you like perfect shapes, then I suggest you grind the dried part with sandpaper (sandpaper for grinding), sold in a hardware store for a penny. This will give you a perfectly flat craft surface.

We cover the figurine made of salt dough with paint of a background color (gouache, acrylic, even building acrylic is great). Dry. On this background, draw multi-colored patterns. Dry. We fix it with hairspray (or acrylic varnish).

Here is a great idea for children's crafts from salt dough for the New Year - a Bullfinch bird from the outlines of a child's palm. We put our palm on the cardboard, outline it with a pencil, cut it out. We put a cardboard palm on the rolled dough, cut it with a knife ... or scribble it with a knife and cut it out with scissors, carefully lifting the dough layer 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 working on New Year's dough crafts.

HOW TO OUTLINE the clear contours of the pattern on the salt dough.

First, we draw the details with a pencil on the already dried dough (we make a sketch), if the esk 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 coloring, without fear of climbing on the black edge of the stroke. We dry the paint.

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

THE SECRET of choosing a color for coloring dough crafts.

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

The craft star made of dough with a penguin in the photo below is very indicative - White paint looks bright in contrast to black, and red paint is brighter when adjacent to black and white.

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

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

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

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

How to paint with an embossed pattern.

You can paint colorful patterns on the salt dough, enriching the decor embossed relief (as in the photo with the New Year's dough craft below). There we first make indentations with a stamp - round berries (we squeeze out with a pencil and wash) and leaves (we do it with a stamp cut from a piece of raw potatoes).

After pushing through the relief pattern, we apply paint to the inside of the relief, giving the entire craft beautiful retro style.

How to color the salty dough itself.

First, we make a regular salty dough. Natural dough color. Then at the bottom of the glass in a couple of drops of water we dilute the food powder dye. And add this mixture to a small piece of dough. Knead evenly with your hands (hands will also be painted, not scary, everything will be washed off). We get a colored lump of dough - from it we make colored elements to decorate the dough crafts (such as these buttons on the mittens below).

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

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

Graphic SECTOR painting

dough crafts.

With the help of the usual drawing ruler you can make a RELIEF GRAPHICS - divide the plane of the salted figurine into clear sectors (as it is done for crafts in the form of a heart with the photo below) and paint each sector with your own color. A beautiful and bright DIY Christmas craft made of salt dough that looks like factory stamping. Nicely done.

Similarly, you can extrude sectors WITH FLUID BORDERS(not in a straight line, but in a curved line). To do this, we take a sheet of thick cardboard, place it on the edge, slightly bending it - and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth line of the groove (as it was done on Christmas tree decorations from the dough in the photo below).

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

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

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

After varnishing, 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 ceramic with ceramic glaze.

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

Crafts from the dough for the New Year

with rhinestones and sequins.

You can decorate salty dough crafts with various decorative items from a sewing store. Rhinestones, sequins, sequins, 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 a great backdrop for paper napkin prints. The technique is called decoupage. And you don't need anything specifically for her, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and patterned napkin and hairspray for finishing.

We take an already dried silhouette from salted dough. If necessary, grind it with emery paper 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. Separate a thin top paper layer from the napkin with a pattern and put it on top of the glue, gently straightening the delicate paper, not allowing it to settle down with wrinkles or wrinkles.

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

Salt dough tools

(knives and scissors for craft decor)

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

This scissor trick comes in handy when you need to create plumage from handicrafts of salt dough birds. Actual craft for the New Year of the Rooster.

Salted dough weaving

For the New Year.

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

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

We put 2 twisted bundles next to each other - sideways to the barrel - choosing such an arrangement so that the turns of each neighboring bundle look in the opposite direction. That is, one bundle with a coil diagonal left down, and another bundle with a diagonal of the coil right down. Thus, 2 plaits laid side by side form the illusion of ONE PIGLET.

If we place several such braids next to each other (of two bundles each), then we get LEAF, similar to the relief of a knitted pattern.

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

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

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

After drying, each element is covered with thick gouache, we choose the painting design to our taste. You can add glitter elements and beading.

Dough crafts

With embossed patterns.

(embossing method).

Here is a salt dough craft decor method that all kids love. 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 with button prints. We take large buttons without holes - using double-sided tape we glue them on 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 dough. Next, cut out the silhouettes of the Christmas trees with cookie cutters - and we get a craft in the form of a Christmas tree, with Christmas balls.

Look nice large metal button prints with a raised embossed pattern - antique.

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

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

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

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

Just put the lace on the rolled dough. And roll it over it with the same rolling pin. If you don't have rolling pins in your house (you are such a mistress, what can you do), then it can be replaced with a smooth glass bottle or a spray of hairspray.

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

These are the patterned things made from plastic Chinese napkins.

How to do it right

paint the dough craft

WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.

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

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

And then we take the paint 1-2 tones lighter (or even a different color) and work no longer with a brush, but with a foam sponge, or with a 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-grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get an even coloring of the entire craft.

Thus, we will color the pattern with textured highlighting it in 2 color tones - on top and inside the relief.

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

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

And yet nature itself can give us its own stamps for imprinting New Year's mood on dough crafts. Twigs of evergreen fir, imprints of cones and dry sinewy leaves. Even at home in a flower pot, you can find the source of a beautiful floral pattern.

Puff pastry crafts

do it yourself for the New Year.

See what flaky beauty you can do with your own hands. How beautiful DOUBLE-LAYER CRYSTALS from salted dough look. The lower base layer is made without a pattern, in a single color. We dry this layer thoroughly, then grind its surface with sandpaper (or pumice stone for the heels, it is also good). We cover the sanded base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform staining (you can act not with a brush, but with a foam rubber sponge or spray paint from a can).

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

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

We preliminarily make a relief impression WITH THE HELP OF A WIRE. Yes, an 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 rolled salted dough and pressed into its pulp with a rolling pin.

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

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

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

The flower petal layers can be glued together after drying - with hot thermo-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 of salt dough, to which volume has been added. Very curious work. And in fact, making such a decoration for a Christmas tree is not difficult with your own hands.

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

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

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

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

Liquid pattern

On crafts of salt dough.

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

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

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

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

So with your own hands and your brains, you can think of and experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough. Try it. Be creative. Be disgraceful. Play pranks.

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

Salt dough crafts

WITH HOLES.

You can make curly holes on toy pendants made of 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. Here in the photo below we see an abbreviated master class - it immediately becomes clear how to actually make such a New Year's beauty with your own hands.

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

Instead of a mosaic, you can pour ordinary COLORED Lollipops - that is, sweets. They, too, will melt and fill the hole. It will turn out a beautiful craft with your own hands, just as if the children would not lick it off with their tongues.

New Year characters

from salted dough.

The dough can be used to make various New Year and winter characters. For example a snowman or penguins.

You can mold the usual shapes from the dough, and then use paints to make them look like the desired character.

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

Complex STEP-BY-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. It takes painstaking and perseverance to do all the work piece by piece and dry everything thoroughly before painting.

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

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

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

The rolled salted dough is cut into strips - a fluffy bow is formed from them. Put the bear craft on top of the bow and dry it all together. Then we paint, with a brush, climbing into all hard-to-reach places.

And here is a handicraft ANGEL made of salt dough, where our technique of embossed print is applied - on the wings and on the tunic.

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

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

You can just make the head of Santa Claus - with a star-shaped substrate, as in the photo below.

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

Happy New Year.

Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site ""
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