If you do not know what to do with your childin your free time and love to make all kinds of crafts, you will love the idea of creating animal figurines from dough. Salted dough lamb is very easy to make. Moreover, for such a homemade toy you will need a simple set of products: flour, salt and water. All necessary information is presented below.
How to make salty dough for crafts?
Making lambs with your own hands from dough is not difficult. The main thing is to knead the dough correctly. So, to work you need to prepare:
- 1 kg of flour and the same amount of salt;
- 500 ml of water;
- natural dyes (coffee, cocoa).
As adaptations will be required:knife, garlic, toothpicks, cotton swabs. When everything is prepared, you can start kneading the dough. For this you need to connect all the components. We try to knead the dough thoroughly. The longer this process, the more plastic it will be. To give the dough a light coffee color, one of the prepared dyes is added to it.
You can also paint the sheep from salt doughafter they are done. To head securely attached to the body, you should use toothpicks. Ready-made figures should be placed in an oven, heated to 50 degrees, and dried to dry until completely dry. There is another way to dry sheep. To do this, they must be set in the sun.
Option number 1
Well, let's start our master class.Salted dough lamb can have different sizes. Having decided on the parameters of the future figure, you can get down to business. To do this, separate the pieces from the dough ball from which the head, body, ears and tail will be molded.
Pinching off the pieces, they need to roll incylinders. The ears need to give a teardrop shape. But as for the head, it will be nice if it is pear-shaped. The wider part will act as a muzzle, the narrow will become the back of the head.
Once all the items are ready, you can proceedto the assembly of the little animals. The body should be put on its feet, then attach the head to it. Toothpicks should be used for this purpose. One part needs to be thrust into the head, the other into the body of the lamb.
The same actions can be done with the feet. In this case, toothpicks need to be divided into parts.
Salty dough lambs (photo below) look very cute.
But what kind of sheep without peepholes?To make the figure more attractive, you need to make eyes out of the remaining dough and attach them to an attractive face. After this, you need to make small dough rolls from the dough and place them above the eyes.
Make a lamb curly can be as follows: it is necessary to stick around with circles of dough. In each of them you can make a hole with a bamboo stick or a toothpick.
After that, the ears and tail can be attached to the body of the animal. As soon as the figure is assembled, it must be sent to the oven for half an hour.
The second option
You can make lambs of salt dough more voluminous. To do this, take a foil and form a torso with it. After that, the figure can be wrapped with foil, which will speed up the drying process.
To imitate the wool of the sheep should takea device for crushing garlic. With it, you need to squeeze the salted dough. The resulting curls must be attached to the craft. Next, the figure needs to be sent to the oven and thoroughly dried it for an hour and a half, at the end of the process lightly browned, adding the temperature in the oven. As a decor multicolored flowers from salty dough are perfect.
Sheep magnet
Crafts made from dough have a lot of purposes.Salty dough lambs can be used as Christmas toys, decor items in bedrooms and children's rooms, funny fridge magnets.
The last option is very simple.Baked lamb from the dough should be glued to the circle-base of the same material. As the wool fit heads from cotton swabs. On the back of the base you need to glue the magnet.
Finally
Now you know how to make the sweetest sheep of salt dough. A master class of such a plan is not at all difficult. If you spend a little more time on this, you can make a whole family of fun little sheep.
