Playing with clay, children develop not onlycoordination of fingers and fingers, but also their own creative thinking. On the shelves of children's stores you can find such a product in a wide variety. But why spend money on synthetic toys, if you can figure out how to make clay with your own hands? Soft and hypoallergenic, intelligent and edible - there are lots of options, you just need to choose the right one for your child.
Homemade clay: what is it?
Так как сделать пластилин своими руками не очень difficult, more attention should be paid to the safety of the ingredients: children now and then strive to try everything to taste. Flour, salt, soda, water and oil - the main composition, which does not cause suspicion. And what about dyes, because it is not as interesting to sculpt figures from a gray-white mass as from multi-colored shop clay? In this case, there are lots of options used pigments:
- The easiest way is to take the juice from the vegetables: the beet will turn red, from the carrot orange, from spinach green. You can mix them and get different shades.
- In the confectionery department of any store special food dyes are sold that are used in baking: they are perfect for this occasion.
- Soluble drinks in small bagsthey produce very bright colors (crimson, lime, and so on), so they can also be taken for a greater variety of color palette of the resulting clay.
- Gouache will color pieces well, but you need to be careful with it: if you overdo it, clay will get your hands dirty.
There are a few tricks to make homemade clay more unusual:
- Plasticine with a smell really like childrenso add a couple of drops of aroma oil to each piece. For example, to the orange piece - orange, to the yellow - lemon: from them you can make fruit that will smell like real ones. The main thing - do not overdo it with the dosage and make sure that the baby is not allergic to the selected flavors.
- Spangles will decorate the plasticine mass, you just need to mix them carefully so that they are not sprinkled during modeling.
Homemade clay: how to store it?
So how to make plasticine with your own hands is possible only from natural products, then there will be no preservatives in it, respectively, and you will have to keep it differently from the store:
- The first condition is to keep in hermetic packaging: containers, cans, bags with a clasp or food wrap - at least something from this arsenal can be found in every home.
- The second is a cool place (a refrigerator would be best).
The benefits of homemade clay
Compared with store clay, home has a number of undeniable advantages:
- Since you can always make clay from flour, and every hostess has the ingredients to make it, it will be much cheaper.
- There are no preservatives, synthetic materials and chemicals in it, so you will not worry much if a child lick it a little.
- Pieces with different colors can be easily mixed into a different shade, which cannot be done with purchased plasticine: yellow and red will never be mixed into orange.
Option 1. Soft plasticine
How to make plasticine from flour to make it soft, but at the same time not stick to your hands?
With the help of the presented recipe it will turn out asOnce this result: pleasant to the touch, the colors are mixed when sculpting, Circuits perfectly stick to each other, but do not stick to their hands. For manufacturing will require:
- oil (sunflower or olive) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- dyes;
- citric acid - 1 tbsp. spoon salt (preferably fine) - 1 cup;
- water - 2 cups;
- flour - 2 cups.
How to make clay with your own hands?
- Pour into the pan water and vegetable oil. Put on the stove. After the bubbles appear, you need to immediately turn off the fire.
- While the water is boiling, the rest of the ingredients should be mixed in a large cup.
- Pour the resulting liquid into the flour and salt mixture.and mix. It turns out that the flour is brewed, so at first lumps will form. When the dough is not so hot, you need to start kneading it with your hands. The result should be a soft non-sticky mass.
- Split the dough into small bars - this will be the expected pieces of clay.
- We start to paint plasticine in selected colors:To do this, make a small depression in each piece and drop a dye. Shuffle and add more if needed. But you need to wear gloves to avoid washing your hands off paint.
Option 2. Cooking in the microwave
In order to prepare the mass for modeling, you do not need to spend a lot of time, since You can make homemade plasticine in the microwave in just a couple of minutes.
FROMlist of ingredients:
- oil (any vegetable) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- flour - 2 glasses;
- dyes;
- salt - 1 cup;
- cream of tartar (or baking powder) - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
All ingredients are mixed in a container thatSuitable for microwave, cover and put warm. Turn on medium roasting for 4-5 minutes (depending on the model, it may take a little longer). Take out and, after it cools, make balls out of mass.
Option 3. Hypoallergenic clay
Now, many children may be allergic to flour, because it contains gluten (gluten).
Therefore, it can be easily replaced with corn starch and follow the instructions on how to make clay without flour.
Composition:
- soda (edible) - 2 glasses;
- dye;
- water - 1.5 cups;
- corn starch - 1 cup.
Preparation Scheme:
1. Mix in a saucepan all the ingredients and put on a small fire.
2. Plasticine will be ready when the ball will form from the mixture.
3. Next, you need to cool, make a small dent and add a little dye there.
4. Knead dough for modeling.
Option 4. Handgum (or "smart" plasticine)
Handgam is not quite ordinary clay:outwardly, it is more like a mucous mass, and in the people it is called lizun. Compared to ordinary clay, it has one indisputable advantage: it does not stick to hands and clothes. Children love to play with him, although it’s impossible to make any figures out of him. Handgam is quite expensive, and in the composition there is a not very useful element - sodium tetraborate.
Of course, it is unlikely that it will be possible to completely protect a child from all sorts of chemicals, but to minimize contact with them is quite realistic. Therefore, you can further learn how make clay without sodium.
Materials:
- PVA glue - ¼ cup;
- package - 1 small;
- liquid starch - 1/3 cup;
- dye.
Operating procedure:
- Pour the starch into the bag.
- Add a little dye.
- Pour in the glue and shake. It should make a clot and some liquid.
- Remove from the bag and allow to drain.
Option 5. Delicious plasticine
How to make clay itself so that it will turn outedible? Using this recipe, you can stick a mountain of tiny cakes together with your child, and then play real tea drinking and eat them. To do this, take the following ingredients:
- honey - 6 tbsp. spoons;
- butter (peanut) - 2 cups;
- dry milk (skim) - 2 cups (+/- 0.5).
Mix butter and honey in a cup and gradually add dry milk to make a mass, from which it will be convenient to sculpt.
No matter what clay you decide to do, you will be able not only to please your child, but also in a game form will help him develop.
