Many have heard that crafts are made from saltytest, but did not try to work with such a plastic material that does not have a sharp smell, like plasticine, and the child will not cause allergies. Yes, and products created in this way can be stored for a long period of time.
Knead salted dough for sculpting craftsrecipe easier than ever. The article will present some of the easiest options for the manufacture of plastic mass. We will also share with readers the features of working with salt dough, how to dry fashioned figurines. Photos of samples of simple crafts will help determine the choice of handmade inexperienced masters.
They have their own characteristics and methods for storing dough,In the event that you do not intend to immediately use the entire material. Sometimes for the brightness of the work it is necessary to paint the dough. After reading our article, you get all the necessary information about the process of making high-quality and spectacular crafts from salt dough.
Recipe for a tight dough
Depending on the size of the future manual masterpieceslabor, you must select and recipe for the test. This option is intended for large figures a few centimeters wide. This salty dough for sculpting handicrafts turns out to be tight and dense; then, when drying in the oven, the product does not “float”, is not deformed, but completely preserves the ideas of the master.
For the formation of the mixture, take 200 grams of whiteflour, twice the fine salt called "Extra". Bulk components are filled in a dry bowl and thoroughly mixed without adding water. When the mixture is evenly mixed, you can slowly pour in small portions of 125 milliliters of cold water.
Some lovers of salt doughIt is recommended to even stand a cup of water in the refrigerator, so that it was just icy. After kneading the mass should be taut. Store the mass in a cling film in the refrigerator.
Cooking option with starch
This dough is used for embossed compositions. The structure includes the following components:
- a full cup of white flour;
- half a cup of salt (consider that salt is heavier than flour. So if you take in grams, then salt and flour are taken in the same way, 200 g each);
- 125 milliliters of cold water;
- a tablespoon of potato starch (some use a spoonful of PVA glue or wallpaper glue instead).
First, according to the technology of preparation, dry components are mixed, then the glue base (if desired) and water are added.
Dough for children's work
Соль довольно агрессивно влияет на состояние кожи hands, so before modeling it is necessary to carefully check the condition of the skin. If there are wounds, scratches or other integrity problems, it is advisable to wear gloves. If you feel a burning sensation, then you need to immediately wash your hands under running water and smear it with a protective cream.
The following recipe for salt dough for crafts includes children's cream, so there should be no problems with burning. Consider what ingredients are part of this test:
- one cup of wheat flour;
- one and a half cups of fine salt;
- one teaspoon baby cream;
- water, how much will it take.
В итоге тесто должно быть не слишком тугим, soft and not stick to hands. Cold water is used, pouring it into the mixture gradually, so as not to make the dough too thin. This option is intended for people with sensitive skin. To make crafts from salt dough is better than a small thickness, so that the products do not creep away during drying.
Recipe for Choux Dough for sculpting
В изготовлении данного варианта соленого теста for crafts at home, many ingredients are involved. It needs to be done longer, since the ingredients are not just mixed, but the dough must be brewed. Consider the recipe in more detail. It will take:
- white flour - 400 grams;
- two cups of boiling water;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- as much tartar;
- 100 grams "Extras";
- half a small spoon of pharmaceutical glycerin.
Отдельно в емкости замешиваются вместе соль и flour, add tartar and pour in the required amount of sunflower oil. Separately, boil water, add the mixed base to boiling water and pour in glycerin. On a quiet fire, you need to cook until the mass is uniform.
Then you need to put the pot on the balcony forcooling the mixture. When everything is cool and there is no danger of getting burned, start kneading the stiff dough, as if on dumplings. If it is liquid, simply add flour, as does the hostess when working with a simple dough.
How to make salty dough for crafts, you alreadygot it. I would like to add that the mass with glycerol is good at work in that later the crafts do not require additional opening with varnish. From it, products have a natural shine and look more impressive, and the colors become saturated.
Let's look at how to paint crafts from salt dough for children.
Staining methods
The dough for doing crafts like for adults,so for kids can be painted in several ways. First, the dye can be added in the process of kneading the mass itself, but then the whole dough will be solid. If you need multi-colored parts for your work, then coloring is done in small portions with an already prepared mass.
What is better to use?Here the opinions of the masters were divided, some like to use food dyes, which are sold in powder, in small bottles and in pill form. Solid materials must be crushed. To do this, use a small plastic bag and rolling pin.
Others agree that it is easier to work with gouache paints. Consider these two methods in more detail.
Coloring food dyes
Crafts made from salt dough with their own hands are often used by children in their games. For example, it is possible for a children's store to stick on a variety of goods - fruits, vegetables, bread products, sweets.
Each product has its own specific color, soYou can paint the dough with pieces, tearing the required amount from a large piece. Then knead a small pile in the palm of your hand. In the middle of the formed bowl, the dye of one or another color dissolved according to the instructions is poured. Further, everything is thoroughly mixed. For work surely use rubber gloves. The mass after kneading should get an even tone.
How to paint dough with gouache?
Действия проводятся аналогично первому способу, only a spoon of gouache paint of the required color is placed in the dough bowl, and tea. Then everything is thoroughly mixed, so that there will not be more or less colored areas on the mass.
Many users have noted in their reviews thatThe dough, mixed with gouache, is much brighter, and you can pick up any shade, after mixing the colors in a plastic palette or an empty jar. Details after food dyes are paler and brighter, and the choice of shades is not very large.
Brush painting
This is an exciting activity for whichCrafts from salt dough are created in most. The photo shows that the toy is painted after it has dried. Due to this possibility, working with salt dough is different from modeling from simple clay.
Baby to create just one toy firstsculpts, and then draws. It develops hand and finger motility, and creative skills, and fantasy. After all, even such a simple horse can be decorated in completely different ways.
Flat crafts
Work with the salt mass can be different.Both flat and voluminous works look interesting. To create a dough of the same thickness, use a regular rolling pin. Cut parts or whole figures can be a knife or mold for cookies. It is possible to decorate crafts not only by drawing, but by creating relief details. For example, on the bird in the bottom of the photo you can see that a dent was made with an openwork plastic napkin. You just need to put it on the dough pattern and lightly press down with his hand.
To create relief use any objects, for example, a sprig of pine or lace. The main thing is that the print is clear.
This method can be used to make spectacular Christmas decorations, a pendant for beads, a bag pendant, a medal for good behavior and much more.
Voluminous work
An example of bulk products made from saltytest, we have already reviewed. These were products for the game in the "Shop". However, this is not the only case when dough figures are made. You can create a zoo with a variety of domestic and wild animals. For sculpting figures used improvised materials. For example, the needles of such a cute hedgehog are made with scissors, because every single one is rather difficult to blind, such a monotonous child will quickly get bored with a child.
And with the help of small cuts to make them easy, and they will be exactly the same.
How to do the dishes?
On the step-by-step photo below you can see how to make a plate.simple enough. To make it look like a real one, that is, to be concave inward, simple technology is used. At first, the dough is rolled thinly on a flat surface, on which a damp cloth was laid. Then on it the relief drawing of the napkin is pressed.
Sponge slightly moistened sheet so that it does notburst when bent, and cut off the extra parts. Then the handicraft is lifted onto the fabric and transferred onto the plate. The craft during drying takes the form of a container in which it is located. Further drying is carried out according to the technology described further.
Drying crafts
Depending on the thickness of crafts applied anddifferent ways of drying the dough. This procedure is performed so that the work is preserved much longer, is not exposed to mold, is solid and durable, so that later it can be painted with a brush or opened with acrylic varnish.
Crafts are dried in a natural way, andin the oven. In the summer, when it is warm, items are put on the windowsills, on the balcony. In winter, you can use warm places near the radiator or fireplace.
However, voluminous crafts cannot be dried this way, since they can dry out on the outside, and remain wet inside. Over time, the hack will become moldy and will just need to be thrown out.
How to dry the figures in the oven, read on. The basic requirements are as follows:
- temperature should be minimal (50 ° С - 75 ° С);
- the oven door needs to be opened a little;
- the drying time is checked manually (if the part is well dried out, when clicking it, a sonorous sound is made; if it is deaf, it means it has not dried yet);
- tune in to a long drying, it takes several hours (you need to carefully monitor that the figure does not dry out and does not burn);
- sprinkle some flour on a baking sheet, as for baking cookies, or put parchment paper.
Successful beginnings!
