Salted dough crafts are a great hobby for kids and adults. Such crafts are as convenient to make as from plasticine, but they are much more colorful and durable. In addition, there are ingredients for such a dough in every home.
It is necessary
- - flour - 2 glasses;
- - salt - 1 glass;
- - water - 250 ml;
- - sunflower oil;
- - paints;
- - various decorations for crafts.
Instructions
Step 1
First you need to make the dough. The main ingredients for it are salt and flour. The proportion for cooking is very simple: you need to take one part of salt and two parts of flour, focusing on the amount according to how much dough you need. Flour is needed the most ordinary, without additives, and salt - fine so that it is not noticeable in the finished material. Mix these two ingredients and add water. You need to add it gradually so that the dough turns out to be elastic, does not crumble in your hands, but does not stick to them either.
Step 2
You can knead one tablespoon of sunflower oil into the finished dough. The same amount of hand cream can be used instead. Then your dough will be more pliable, it will keep its shape well, it will not dry out ahead of time and crack. You can add a little starch or PVA glue instead of oil or cream, then the finished products will better keep their shape. However, it is best to experiment with different formulations of salt dough after you try to make several products.
Step 3
The finished dough can be divided into several parts and added to each with different food colors or colored gouache. You can also choose natural colors, for example, add cocoa to the dough. Then, immediately after cutting the figures, they will sparkle with different colors. These paints will become dull after drying the figurines, but will return to their former color when you varnish them.
Step 4
The next stage is figurine sculpting. Roll out the dough in a not quite thin layer, cut the products out of it using cookie cutters or cardboard blanks and a knife. You can sculpt with salted dough like plasticine, but remember that the figures should not be too thick for the dough to dry and harden. Salted dough is used to make New Year's decorations, compositions for paintings, gifts, garlands, pendants and souvenirs.
Step 5
After the base of the product is made, a relief can be made on it with the help of a knife, tubes, and various other devices: draw waves, do shading, make holes in order to then thread the tape through them. The main product can be decorated with smaller pieces of salt dough, or beads, beads, buttons. True, it is impossible to dry the craft with plastic elements in the oven, they will melt. But you can make indentations for them in the product, and after drying, attach them with glue. Beads and buttons can be replaced with various cereals, seeds, shells.
Step 6
It's time to send the prepared product to the oven. It is worth remembering that the drying process should not turn into baking cookies, so the temperature should be kept to a minimum. Do not place crafts in an already preheated oven or remove immediately after turning it off. Items should heat up and cool down gradually. The oven door must be slightly open during drying.
Step 7
The ideal drying option would be the following: put the products in the oven and let dry for an hour on one side. Then turn the figurines over and let dry for another hour. After that, remove the crafts from the oven and let them dry for another day in the fresh air, after which repeat drying in the oven. The time in the oven should be varied depending on the thickness and size of the product. If bubbles or cracks appear on the craft, the drying was done incorrectly or the dough production technology was violated.
Step 8
The final stage is the decoration of the product. Leave the crafts outdoors after drying. After they have completely cooled down, weathered and hardened, paint them with paints, markers, decorate with sparkles and curly stamps, glue buttons, shells, pieces of glass, thread ribbons or colored ropes. And after finishing the treatment, cover with varnish.
