Master class “Model of a salt dough volcano. Video and photo tutorials for modeling funny crafts from salt dough How to make a lighthouse from salt dough

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

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

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

There are a lot of recipes for modeling from salt dough. Depending on the scale of crafts, salt, flour and water are mixed in various proportions, and, among other things, more are added to the dough additional ingredients: 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, flour and salt are mixed in equal proportions with the gradual addition of cold water. For example, 200 g of salt and 200 g of flour will require 125 g of water.

Tip for beginners!

1. Flour should be ordinary rye or wheat without the addition of baking powder and other components.
2. Salt is best taken fine-grained and in no case iodized. For better dissolution of salt, some needlewomen add a little water to it before mixing it with flour.
3. In order for the dough to be homogeneous, it is recommended to use a mixer.
4. To please the children already in the process of modeling and give the product color, you can add to the dough food colorings.
5. For better adhesion of the 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 can take about 1 hour or more.

Master class on making flour salts

In addition to flour, water and salt for the master class, you will need the following devices:

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

Depending on what figures you will make, you may need cookie cutters, beads, buttons, leaves of various shapes to create prints.

1. From the finished salt dough, roll out a layer half a centimeter thick.
2. Cut out using cookie cutters right amount figurines. With a toothpick or a rod from a pen, make holes in the figures in order to thread loops of ribbons into them. Decorate crafts using beads, buttons, or tree leaves as prints.
3. Preheat the oven, cover the bottom of the baking sheet with tracing paper or special baking paper.
4. Put the figures on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until the dough hardens.
5. Place the flour salts on flat surface and paint with colors of your choice.
6. To give finished products shine, cover them with varnish.

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

The materials and fixtures needed to create such a funny lamb will need the same ones 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. Shape the dough into 4 small balls for future lamb legs.
3. To make the body, roll a sheet of foil into a ball and cover it with a salt dough pancake. Place the resulting ball on the legs.
4. Make a lamb's head, horns, ears and eyes out of the dough. Use small balls of dough to form the fur of the toy.
5. Dry the salt dough lamb in the oven for 2.5-3 hours, and then let it cool for 30-40 minutes.
6. Color and varnish the toy.

Modeling of three-dimensional panels and paintings from salt dough

As a rule, salt dough is used for paintings. next recipe: one glass of salt and flour, 1 tbsp. water. For beginners, it is best to use a small amount in the picture salt figurines, decorating the rest of the space with decorative materials. Salted details are best done on foil so that their reverse surface is perfectly flat and easily glued to the picture field.

Accurate, perfect and unique right recipes does not exist!

The hardness of the water, the quality of the flour and salt, even the temperature can affect the final result. So, if you are just starting to be interested in testoplasty, use the recommendations below. Do not be afraid to experiment, and, quite possibly, over time you will develop your own, exclusive recipe making salt dough!

Classic salt dough recipe .First of all, the flour should be the most ordinary. No baking powder, dyes and other flavorings! Usually the cheapest wheat flour is used. In contrast, rye has more gluten. Crafts made from such flour are coarser, but when dried, they deform and crack less. If in the process of making a future craft I do not plan small and sophisticated details, I usually mix wheat and rye flour in equal proportions.

Salt - "Extra". I read in one book that you can take rock salt and grind it in a coffee grinder. Well, let's try the sea or, for example, bath salt. I repeat once again - do not be wiser! We are not talking about rare earth metals now. Salt "Extra" is more than available, sold in any village grocery store. It is quite small and dissolves well.

Water- ordinary cold water.

Let's move on to cooking and all kinds of additives.

Mix salt and flour. Some "specialists" recommend dissolving salt in water in advance. Like, in this way, the salt will dissolve completely and there will be no crystalline inclusions in the dough. In fact, we get a saturated solution with an incomprehensible precipitate. In addition, the exact amount of water that we may need, we can not always guess. And in the manufacture of decorative tiles and tiles, the amount of salt is increased, almost twice! So much salt water will not take unambiguously. Therefore, we will not reinvent the wheel and continue.

We add additional ingredients. In order for our crafts to be more durable after drying and finishing, add one or two tablespoons of wallpaper paste. If add potato starch, the dough will become very tender and plastic. It is good to create thin, refined works with many small details from such a dough. Although, if you want to add starch, it would be more correct to cook a paste and use it instead of water. It should also be remembered that starch makes the craft more fragile. Therefore, it is important not to overdo it here. For the amount of flour given in our recipe, a heaping tablespoon will suffice.

We knead the dough. Mixing thoroughly, add cold water. The degree of readiness of salt dough can only be determined by hand.

If the dough crumbles, add water.

If, on the contrary, it stretches too well and sticks to your hands, then there is a lot of water, and you need to add a little flour.

Roll up the ball, make a few indentations in it with your finger. If the dough does not spread and holds its shape, then it is ready.

However, it should be remembered that the best is the enemy of the good! If there is a lot of oil, the dough will get dirty, and the final drying may take a very long time.

For our recipe, a couple of tablespoons is enough. For the same purpose, some use glycerin and even baby cream. I can't say enough about the cream. But if you plan to work with a child, you can add some pleasant fragrance. For example - a few crystals of vanillin.

We wrap the finished dough in a bag and put it in the refrigerator. In this form, it can be stored for a long time. By the way, after a few hours of such storage, the salt residues will completely dissolve. And the rest of the components will enter into a final reaction with each other. The main thing is not to forget to knead the dough again before work. As a rule, I cook it in the evening, and I do the modeling the next day.

colored dough

done right colored dough – great alternative expensive, and sometimes harmful plasticine,

It is much more interesting for a child to sculpt from such a dough, and mixing and creating new shades will make this process even more exciting,

The use of bright colors has a beneficial effect on the positive emotions of the child,

The color contrast of individual details makes the craft visually more pleasing than dough clumsily painted with a brush.

Of course, hand painting has its considerable advantages! However, this becomes noticeable only when you have drawing skills. In the meantime, the best option for the first step into the world of testoplasty is to use colored dough.

How to make colored dough? What dyes to use?

Here you can go into more detail. As you yourself understand, the main thing is that the dye does not harm the child, if you sculpt with the kids, the most ecological and a little exotic - natural juice! Carrot, beetroot, you can still come up with options.

Alas, the manufacture of such a colored dough is quite laborious and expensive. Especially when it comes to large quantities. If you intend to use a lot of colored dough, you can use dyes for the production of soap and candles. Dyes are sold in fairly large bottles, and they should last for a long time. The only and, alas, the biggest problem is to find these same dyes. The fact is that they are sold, as a rule, from a warehouse and in small wholesale!

So, the most optimal ingredient for a colored salt dough recipe is ordinary food coloring. It is sold, as a rule, in church shops or in ordinary groceries.

Well, the last, personally, acceptable option for me is gouache. Unlike acrylic paints, it is cheaper and more affordable. And given the variety of colors currently on sale, the need to select and knead the desired color is eliminated.

Now for the recipes.

Take as a sample classic recipe salt dough: 2 tbsp. flour, 1 tbsp. salt, 250 gr. water. Although I can't help but make small comments. You can take less salt - it makes the dough brittle. And the dough I would take in equal parts wheat and rye. The fact is that although rye is coarser, it has more gluten, and because of this quality, the figure holds volume better.

As you can see, it makes sense to experiment. Surely you will find your own, exclusive, recipe!

And now a little about supplements. Like every self-respecting chef who cooks favorite dish, there are a couple of secrets, and every person involved in salt dough, there are a couple of details that you will remember when preparing colored dough.

First of all, do not abuse dyes! Do you think the resulting dough is too pale? Take, for testing, your “pale” red dough, stick “pale” on it green tortilla, add two "pale" white balls, and in the center of each place a point of "unsuccessful" black, add a stack of a smile ... See what a funny face it turned out to be? We just played on the contrast of colors! And too much saturation of the dough with dyes will spoil its structure.

One more moment. When we sculpt from simple test, then we do not pay attention to the remnants of the dough remaining on the hands. But, when working with color dough, it can ruin another color.

So here are three tips:

After kneading or eating dough of the same color, try to wash or dry your hands wet wipe. The same applies to the work surface. And in general, when kneading the primary colors, use rubber gloves. This makes it easier to wash your hands.

After the main color batch is done, immediately place it in cellophane. Until you get to the last one, the first one will turn into a crust! Mixing colored dough takes time.

And lastly, and most importantly! When working with color dough, feel free to use vegetable oil! In the recipe above, add at least a tablespoon. It, of course, interferes with subsequent drying. But it is better to lose another day on the drying of crafts than to spoil it with dirty stains.

By the way, after the figurine dries, it may become covered with a slight whitish coating. Do not be afraid, cover it with varnish and the plaque will disappear.

Prepare your desktop. It is best to work with colored dough on a smooth, washable surface.. For these purposes, special plastic sheets for working with plasticine are perfect. You can easily find them at any stationery store. Place containers of water and oil nearby. Think about what tool you will need.

Well, that seems to be all.

You can start. About what to sculpt, fantasy will tell you !!!

Polina Rassolova

Any activity proceeds more effectively and gives high-quality results, if at the same time children have strong motives, bright, deep, causing a desire to act actively, with full dedication of strength.

For creating layout required salty dough , box, sticker, plastic bottle 1.5 liters, plastic lid, stationery knife, gouache, brushes, hot melt adhesive.

First, we prepare the box, cut off the corners, glue the outside of the box with self-adhesive tape. Then we cut off the top of the bottle, glue the lid to it with hot glue to make the bottom.

The lid must be well glued so that no liquid flows out of the bottle. We glue the blank to the box. Next, we glue all the walls of the box test, on one of the walls I fashioned a tree

Let the finished structure dry. After you can start coloring. The paint must be fixed on top with varnish.

You can start experimenting. In the mouth volcano pour a tablespoon of soda, a little red gouache and pour a little vinegar with the help of a funnel. The kids will just love it.

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Dough modeling is a fun way to spend time with children. After all, at the same time, they not only sculpt, but also cook: they can experiment with the flour mixture in the process of measuring and mixing the ingredients, and then observe the metamorphoses that occur with the finished product when temperatures change during the drying process.

In addition, crafts made from salt dough are harmless to children, they do not contain allergens, and they can be safely tasted.

Figures made from homemade flour mixture are harder and better preserved than plasticine.

Basic dough recipe

Before you make dough for modeling, you need to imagine what kind of products will be made, whether the dough needs to be dyed, how long modeling will take, which drying mode will be selected.

The basic dough recipe for crafts consists of one part salt and two parts wheat flour to which citric acid is added - 2 tsp. 1 cup salt and 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil. The amount of water added during mixing should be equal to the amount of salt.

Dough preparation method

The test is made in the following order:

• Mix flour with salt and citric acid and pour this mixture into a saucepan;
• Place the saucepan over moderate heat and, stirring constantly, gradually add water until the dough begins to lag behind the pan and can be rolled into a ball.
• Remove from heat and knead the dough with your hands.

Food coloring or gouache must be diluted in water, which is added before kneading the dough.

In the course of work, depending on the required consistency, the salt-flour mixture can be further diluted with water or oil, or flour can be added for hardness.

It is better to prepare the dough in as small portions as possible, right before sculpting, and store it only in a tightly closed container or cling film.

Drying salt dough crafts

In order for DIY salt dough crafts to retain their shape, do not break, and do not crack, you need to choose the right drying mode. You can simply leave the figurines to dry naturally in the air, you can put them in the oven.

There are two different methods for oven drying. The first is to preheat the oven, then turn it off and place the figurines in the heated space. You can also bake products at 100-degree mode, making sure that there is no burning.

A master class on making dough crafts involves, first of all, experimenting with the material: the composition of the dough and its drying mode, so failures in this process are inevitable.

Useful advice: Starting modeling with children, you need to set them up so that the first success, after many not quite aesthetic attempts, becomes a real miracle for them.

It is better to start with simple and uniform shapes, such as, for example, round beads of various colors and sizes. From them you can make garlands to decorate the room.

Then you can master more complex silhouettes - stars, hearts, and three-dimensional figures - New Year's snowflakes, Christmas trees, Easter eggs with patterns, coasters for eggs, chickens.

You can time the production of figurines for the holidays, or choose more neutral motifs for all occasions, making souvenirs and gifts in the form of stylized horseshoes, suns, stars, airplanes and funny faces.

During sculpting, you can use and special molds for modeling and baking, and other things, at the prompt of your imagination: garlic crush - for making thin ropes from dough, bottle caps - for cutting circles, plastic parts of toys - for getting prints, almost everything that is at hand from a toothpick to wheels from toy cars, can become a dough sculpting tool.

Note!

It is easy to make holes in salt dough, both decorative and for hanging on threads. Holes on flat figures retain their shape when dry.

But when making more voluminous parts, such as spherical balls, in order to make a hole for the thread, you need to pierce the figure with a toothpick or other sharp tool made of wood or plastic and do not remove it until the product dries.

Helpful Hint: To glue the elements of the dough, it is enough just to wet the individual sections and attach them to each other.

From volumetric and flat figures, you can make garlands, key chains, medals and pendants. You can fashion chests and cups for storing jewelry, small treasures and pencils.

Volumetric figures of animals

Volumetric figures of animals are especially popular with children, they can be made in accordance with popular step by step instructions, which are intended for plasticine and clay crafts.

Note!

You can sculpt from dough without dyes, then paint the finished figure and, after drying, varnish it.

You can also cut out various figures: having made their layout from cardboard, put it on a flat dough previously rolled out with a rolling pin and carefully cut along the edges. Then you can color the figurine, add the necessary texture - roughness, strokes, make eyes, nose or bead jewelry.

A wonderful handmade gift can be a photo frame or a unique candlestick.

Making panels that combine elements of mosaic, appliqué and modeling can captivate both children and adults. For the smallest, the simplest drawings are suitable: you must first draw a silhouette on parchment, then carefully fill it with dough along the lines.

More complex ideas can also be conceived and implemented using beads, cereal mosaics, dried flowers, etc.

Note!

Photo crafts from the dough

Salt dough modeling is an exciting activity that can bring a lot of pleasure to both little fidgets and adult uncles and aunts. Salt dough is an excellent malleable material from which you can make a lot of interesting crafts, including whole paintings that radiate the warmth of the master's hands and homeliness.

Video catalog of works and ideas for modeling

To create real masterpiece you will have to try hard, but absolutely everyone can master testoplasty, especially since this technique does not require any unique abilities and expensive materials. If you set a goal, you can find everything you need without leaving your home, there would be a desire. For children, making crafts from salt dough will become not only interesting, but also a very useful activity, since fine motor skills of the hands are directly related to the development of speech, thinking, attention, imagination, visual and motor memory, and any joint creativity brings together.

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How to make salt dough for modeling

Almost every master uses his unique recipe dough, so today we will offer several recipes at once. All recipes are good, but each is good in its own way. One is more suitable for small products, the other for large ones, the third is suitable for working with children. By experimenting with different components, you can decide on the optimal recipe.

Salt Dough Recipes

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First option: universal dough

• 1 glass of salt
• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• half a glass of water

Pour a glass of salt and a glass of flour into a large bowl. Mix with a spoon. Pour half a glass of water and a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Mix with a spoon and knead with your hands until smooth, as well as plain dough. To make the mass more plastic, we replace the water with jelly from starch. To prepare jelly, dissolve a tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. In a small saucepan, bring another glass of water to a boil. While stirring, pour the starch solution into the boiling water. When the contents of the saucepan become transparent and thicken, turn off the heat, let the jelly cool, and then add it to the flour and salt mixture instead of water.

If the dough is too soft, at the bottom of the bowl, mix a tablespoon of salt with a tablespoon of flour. Press the dough ball into the mixture and knead. If necessary, repeat the procedure.

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The second option for simple models

• 200 grams of flour
• 200 grams of salt
• 125 milliliters of water
• (before adding to the dough, the glue must be diluted in warm water to the consistency of sour cream)

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Third option for large models

• two glasses of flour
• one glass of salt
• 2/3 cup water

You may need a little more water, the amount depends on the type of flour. In terms of density, the modeling dough should resemble softened plasticine. To prepare dough for hot water pour out the salt, wait until the salt is completely dissolved, and the water has cooled. Add flour (the second grade is quite suitable) and knead the dough thoroughly.

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Strong salt dough for tiles and boards

• 200 grams of flour
• 400 grams of salt
• 125 milliliters of water
• 2 tablespoons plain wallpaper glue

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Fifth option: salt dough for delicate work

• 300 grams of flour
• 200 grams of salt
• 2 tablespoons plain wallpaper glue
• 4 tablespoons of glycerin

To in finished product crystals did not come across, and the surface turned out to be smooth, the salt for making the dough should be finely ground. If at hand was only coarse salt, before kneading the dough, it should be ground in a coffee grinder or diluted with the amount of water specified in the recipe. It is better to choose inexpensive varieties of flour without emulsifiers, baking powder and other additives.

Ready dough Wrap in cling film to keep from drying out and refrigerate for a few hours. This will make the dough more elastic and easier to work with while sculpting, and it will not break on the sides.

For children, choose recipes that do not contain glue.

Uncolored dough will have a light beige color. To give the product a warm bread shade, we take half of the wheat and rye flour from the amount indicated in the recipe. It is undesirable to use rye flour alone, since the dough will turn out to be hard, inelastic and will crumble.

Using watercolor or gouache, you can paint either ready-made figures, or color the dough even at the kneading stage. Gouache paints, food colors or natural food colors are perfect for coloring dough: fruit and vegetable juices (beetroot, carrot juice, parsley juice), cocoa, coffee. The dough of different colors is stored in separate plastic bags or jars. Just like paints, pieces of colored dough can be safely mixed to obtain the desired shade:

• blue + white = cyan
• blue + yellow = green
• green + blue = emerald
• blue + pink = purple
• white + red = pink
• yellow + red = orange
• green + red = brown

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Salt dough crafts

While the dough is cooling and reaching the desired condition, you can prepare the workplace and everything you need for modeling. First of all, we free the table from foreign objects and cover it with oilcloth. We may also need:

• a working board for rolling out the dough (you can use a piece of thick cardboard covered with a sheet of baking foil on top)
• rolling pin (can be replaced with a smooth bottle)
• knife with a thin blade
• cardboard
• pencil
• tassel
• floss threads
• aluminium foil
• various small things: buttons, corks, matches, coins - to create embossed surfaces; beads, cereals, foil - for decoration.

Almost everything is used for modeling dough: buttons and fabrics for textured prints, various seeds and cereals for original ornaments, dried flowers, fresh embossed leaves, twigs, etc. Wet fabrics and objects slightly with vegetable oil before printing so that they do not stick to the dough. Beautiful buttons, pebbles, glass beads, glass beads, beads, shreds and lace, threads and chains can not only be printed, but also “imprinted” directly into the dough. If you fire your products in the oven, make sure that the beads are not plastic, but glass, and the threads are not synthetic.

Since the dough dries very quickly in air, it must be kept in tightly closed jars on the desktop. Each time it is necessary to take exactly as much dough as necessary, and immediately fold the excess back.

Testing can be done in several ways. Firstly, you can roll out a layer of dough, cut out various flat figures from it, and then make a composition out of them. However, in order to get a three-dimensional product, it is better to mold individual parts, and then combine them into a planned composition. Wet the joints with a brush and gently press with your finger. A toothpick will help attach the head to the body.

To create a picture or a plate based on the board, first we roll out the dough one and a half centimeters thick, cut out the desired shape from it, let it dry for several days and only after that we apply the rest of the details, using the same salt dough diluted to mushy as glue states. Fresh parts are held together with a brush and water.

To make a nice frame, you can first draw a sketch on cardboard, then cut it out and stick it around with dough, and when it dries a little, attach small details.

When working with volumetric vertical figures, a wire frame should be used. Inside large bulky products, you can put tightly formed baking foil balls, boxes or jars, carefully tightened with dough so that no holes or cracks remain. In this case, the manufacture of the product will require less material, it will not deform during drying and will dry much faster.

If after work you have left unused dough, wrap it in an oilcloth or a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator. This will keep the dough from drying out and spoiling for several months.

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Drying, firing, coloring and varnishing

In order for dough products to gain strength, they must be air-dried or burned in the oven. The first option will take quite a long time, since during air drying the moisture from the product evaporates very slowly. In good weather, in one day the product will dry out only a few millimeters. It is better not to put crafts from the test on the battery, because it is likely that they will simply crack.

It is better to use the combined method - first dry the product a little in the sun, and then burn it in the oven. The product must not be baked! It should not be baked, but dried at the lowest temperature, while the oven door should be slightly ajar. In this mode, the product should be fired for one and a half to two hours until it turns red and the dough hardens. In case of overheating, bubbles and cracks will appear on the figure.

After drying or firing, salt dough products can be painted and varnished. Acrylic paints can be used for coloring, but artistic gouache with the addition of a small amount of PVA glue is best. This mixture, after drying, will give the product a slight sheen and will not stick to the hands. Acrylic varnish is perfect for varnishing, it is non-toxic, water-soluble and dries in just 6-8 hours.

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