Crafts made from salt dough are a fascinating creative process. The material for modeling is inexpensive, and you can show your imagination twice: when you sculpt something and when you then paint the finished product. My daughter loves both very much, and I myself, to be honest, often get very carried away by the process. We like to make small compositions, for example, from several animals, paint them and give them to grandparents and other relatives and friends. Making your own salt dough at home is as easy as shelling pears.

You don't need much to make puff pastry animals!

To make the dough itself you need : salt, flour, water and a little vegetable oil.
To work with it you will need everything that we use when working with plasticine: a modeling board or backing, a rolling pin, stacks.

In addition, you will need foil, paints, brushes, water, clear varnish, toothpicks and any decorative items to decorate and complement the image (ribbons, buttons, beads, feathers, eyes, etc.).

Making play dough at home

My daughter eagerly participates not only in modeling and coloring, but also in kneading dough.
To prepare, take 2 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt. The salt should be finely ground, optimally Extra, not iodized.

Mixing the ingredients

Mix salt and flour and, adding water in small portions, knead a fairly tight dough, similar in consistency to dumplings. A little less than a glass is required. You can add 1 tbsp for better elasticity. l. vegetable oil.

Flour for dough

After kneading, put the dough in a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Knead the dough

The finished dough does not stick to your hands, wrinkles easily, and holds its shape. It can be colored in bulk, that is, add paint directly to the dough and knead. It can successfully replace soft plasticine. We paint ready-made crafts.

Interesting ideas for modeling with your child

In addition to directly sculpting various figures, salt dough can be used to make paintings. For example, my daughter and I made a small picture on the theme “Fairy Tales of Pushkin.”

Step 1

We came up with a drawing and painted a small board with blue gouache.

Step 1. Color the board and draw a picture

Step 2

The details of the design were sculpted from salt dough and glued to the board with PVA glue.

Step 2. We make parts from the dough and glue them to the blue board

Step 2. Add details

Step 3

The finished picture was dried at room temperature for 3 days.

Step 3. Dry the painting for 3 days

Step 4

Painted and coated with clear varnish.

Step 4. Decorate with paints

Step 4. Varnish

For little kids, you can offer an interesting option for working with dough.

• Roll out the dough into a layer , cut out figures with cookie cutters or plasticine, dry.
• Recolor . My 2.5 year old son can do such crafts.

You can make a garden of rocks and other “valuables”: artistically place finds from your walk on a piece of salt dough—pebbles, leaves, twigs.

How my daughter and I made crafts from dough

One of our recent crafts is Antarctica. We often get ideas from books about modeling, but there are some differences in working with dough. For example, you don’t have to sculpt separately parts of different colors, because the dough is painted in whatever color you need.

Also, when sculpting three-dimensional figures, foil is used as a frame; it prevents the figure from “sinking” while it is drying, and the drying process itself is accelerated.

Let's make a penguin

You will need 5 blank balls:

• 1 large - for the body;
• 2 small - for wings;
• 2 even less - for the paws.

Let's roll the balls

Roll out dough balls

Place a wad of foil in the center of a large ball and shape it into a pointed pear. We roll out the blanks of wings and legs into cone-shaped sausages and flatten them. We bend the body blank to make a head with a beak.

Forming the torso

We connect the wings and legs to the body, glue on eyes made of small balls.
We put the penguin on an ice floe: we rolled out a layer of dough and cut out a circle with a glass.

We collect the penguin and put it on the layer

Dry at room temperature for about a week.

Do not place the figures on the battery or speed up the process with a hairdryer, this can lead to cracking.

You can dry it in the oven at 50-150 degrees for several hours.

Let's make a seal

We also prepare 5 blanks: the body and paws. As a frame we use a strip of foil folded several times.

Forming balls of different sizes

We give the body the shape of an oblong cake and place foil in the middle. Roll the foil into the dough sausage.

Roll out a large ball into a flat cake and place foil on it

Roll the foil into the dough

Roll out the fin blanks into cone-shaped sausages and flatten them. Apply stripes in a stack.

Making seal feet

We bend the body, as shown in the photo, and connect it to the flippers.
We use small balls to make a nose and eyes.

Collecting seals

Can be dried.

As an additional decoration, we made a fish.

Making a fish

We paint the dried products with gouache and watercolors and cover them with transparent varnish (you can use acrylic artistic varnish, or you can use regular wood varnish).

It is convenient to sculpt flat, slightly convex figures from the dough. This property of the dough can be used to create bas-reliefs from it - convex images on a plane.

Material and tools: a board sprinkled with flour, a rolling pin, a knife, a sharpened pencil, a glass of water, a thin brush, a cloth or sponge, a little vegetable oil.

Dough: flour - 1 cup, salt - 1 cup, vegetable oil - a tablespoon, water - half a cup.

Mix all ingredients and knead well on a board to obtain a soft, homogeneous mass. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After this, you can sculpt from the dough. Place the remaining dough after modeling in a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator until next time.

The techniques for modeling from dough are the same as for modeling from plasticine.

Colored dough

Part of the modeling mass can be left unpainted (it has a light beige color), and part can be painted in different colors using gouache paints. If you sculpt from colored dough, you won't have to color the finished products. This is especially important if small children are sculpting, for whom it is still difficult to accurately hit a certain place with a brush.

You will need unpainted salt dough and a set of gouache or acrylic paints. Paints must be in a paste form. If they are dry, add a little water to the jars and wait until the paint softens.

Take a piece of dough in your left hand, such that it fits freely in your fist. Make a dimple in the middle of this piece. Using the index finger of your right hand, scoop a piece of paste from the jar and place it in this recess.

Close the edges of the dent so that the paint is inside.

Roll the dough ball up and down between your palms. Your hands will get a little dirty, but it doesn’t matter - the paint can be easily washed off with water. To prevent the dough from sticking to your hands too much, moisten them with sunflower oil.

After rolling out a long sausage, fold it in half and roll again. Repeat this operation until the “marble” stains disappear and the color becomes uniform. If after adding paint the dough becomes too soft, add a little salt and flour to it.

Prepare a set of colored mass in this way. Leave part of the dough uncolored - it will act as white. Store each color of dough in a separate plastic bag or in a yogurt jar with a tight-fitting lid.

Pieces of colored dough can be mixed, like paints, and achieve the shade you want. To do this, you just need to take two pieces of dough and knead them together until. until the dough is smooth:

Blue + white = light blue;

White + red = pink;

Blue + pink = purple;

Blue + yellow = green;

Yellow + red = orange;

Green + red = brown;

Green + blue = emerald.

And don't forget to stock up on flesh-colored dough! In order to make such a dough, you need to add a little yellow to the light pink one.

The excess colored dough that remains after modeling can be mixed into one lump so that it does not dry out. The result will be an “incomprehensible”, most likely gray-brown, color. But he can also be useful for something.

You can make paintings and toys from colored dough

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We invite you to immerse yourself in the world of art without leaving your apartment! To make it easier for you to learn a new activity, we have prepared useful tips and master classes.

The origins of this type of creativity are deeply rooted in the history of our culture. The same Kolobok is an excellent artistic example of a product made from salt dough.

Anyone can work with the dough. Surely you have a handful of flour at home! In addition, the dough is much more plastic than gypsum and more durable than plasticine.

How to prepare play dough

If you have finally decided to master the process of making crafts, then it would be useful to learn how to make salt dough. We offer several recipe options from which you can choose any one you like.

• 1 tbsp. fine salt;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 5 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• water;
• colored gouache or natural juice.

Thoroughly stir the dry ingredients in a deep container, pour in the oil and a little water. To give the dough a certain color, carefully stir in juice (for example, carrot or beetroot).

• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 125 ml water.

Mix everything and knead the dough like dumplings. To sculpt thin relief figures, add one more thing to choose from: 1 tbsp. l. PVA glue, 1 tbsp. l. starch or a mixture of wallpaper glue and water.

• 2 tbsp. wheat flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 125 ml water;
• 1 tbsp. l. hand cream (vegetable oil).

Combine all ingredients and knead thoroughly until smooth. You can use a blender or mixer to speed up the process. The dough turns out very soft and pliable.

• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. finely ground salts;
• 125 ml water.

This is a recipe for salt dough for sculpting large products. First of all, combine the salt with the flour, and then add water little by little, kneading until an elastic mass is obtained.

• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 4 tbsp. l. glycerin (sold at the pharmacy);
• 2 tbsp. l. wallpaper glue + 125-150 ml of water.

This dough is well suited for making delicate works. We recommend using a mixer for mixing - it makes the task much easier.

Tools you need for creativity

In addition to the fact that you need to learn how to make salted dough for modeling, it is also important to prepare the necessary tools and a set of accessories:

• a small rolling pin or bottle of water (you can’t live without it!);
• modeling board;
• knife;
• ballpoint pen refill (for creating holes and patterns);
• brush;
• container with water;
• shaped cookie cutters;
• buttons, beads, rings, lace, etc. for making impressions;
• paints.

All this will be useful to you for creative work with the dough.

Basic drying methods

When the product is ready, it must be properly dried. There are several methods. Let's look at the most popular of them.

Method 1 - In the oven (preheated)

Drying in a slightly open oven at a temperature of 55-80 °C (the craft is placed in a preheated oven). Place the product on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or in a heat-resistant bowl. The process may take about an hour or longer depending on the size of the figurine.

Method 2 - Natural conditions

This means drying in the open air (but not in direct sunlight). This method takes longer than the first, but is more effective. It is best to place the product on a wooden or plastic surface. Air drying takes about 3-4 days. But we do not recommend drying it on a radiator - this can lead to the craft cracking and crumbling.

Method 3 - In the oven (cold)

According to this method, crafts made from salt dough must be placed in a cold oven and only then turned on, eventually heating up to 150 °C. The products should cool there while the oven cools down.

Figures made from unpainted dough are attractive in themselves. However, after drying, they can be decorated with gouache, watercolor or acrylic paints. They are good because they dry quickly, do not smudge and do not leave marks on your hands.

Coloring methods:

1. Mix watercolor paints with water with a brush and apply to the product so that they do not spread.
2. Mix gouache with PVA glue and evenly cover the craft with this mixture.
3. You can give the dough a certain color while kneading. Divide it into parts - there should be as many of them as the shades you need to paint. Roll them into balls, make a hole in the middle of each and drop a couple of drops of food coloring diluted in water there. After this, knead the dough so that it colors evenly.

Modeling from salt dough also allows you to use various elements for decoration. These can be cereals, pasta, buttons, shells, beads, all kinds of threads and ribbons. The scope for imagination is unlimited!

Why is varnishing needed?

Finished products are varnished so that the paint does not fade or wash off, and the appearance of the work does not deteriorate over time. Varnishing is used if necessary and solely at the request of the author.

You can add shine to the product with varnish:

• liquid - you need to cover the product with it in several layers, the result is ruddy and natural;
• thick - it better protects the craft from moisture; you can use either a varnish that imparts a mirror shine or a matte one.

It is preferable to use aerosol varnish. A single application is enough for the colors to sparkle brighter and the work to become protected from damage.

Although, practice shows that proper drying allows you to not even resort to varnishing - the product will retain its original appearance for many years.

Possible problems and their solutions

Here is a list of problems that may arise when drying or decorating a toy made from salt dough:

1. The dough has bubbles or cracks after drying. This may be caused by the wrong choice of flour or failure to follow drying rules. The simplest and most inexpensive flour for modeling is suitable - low-grade rye or wheat. And the product should be dried without undue haste in a slightly preheated oven with the door ajar. In general, it is better if the craft dries naturally.
2. The product is cracked after painting. This can happen if you start painting a craft that has not yet dried enough. Let it dry in the fresh air, smooth out any rough edges with sandpaper and repaint.
3. The product is cracked due to its large thickness. In this case, you need to remove excess dough from the back or bottom. In order for a large product to dry evenly in the oven, it must be turned over periodically.
4. An element has broken off. You can try gluing it with PVA glue, but it’s better to just smooth out the unevenness and decorate it with some kind of decoration.
5. The craft has faded after painting. An additional coating of varnish can restore the color to its former richness and make the craft brighter.

Crafts made from salt dough

According to some assumptions, the first dough moldings were used by cooks to decorate baked goods. Today, you can sculpt anything from such a wonderful material: paintings, souvenir figurines, and toys.

So, when you already know how to make salt dough, let's start creating crafts from it.

2015 is the year of the wooden sheep, so the most popular souvenir is a sheep made from salt dough. We offer you a workshop for making such a figurine.

Want something interesting?

You will need:

• fine table salt;
• Wheat flour;
• cold water;
• foil;
• brush;
• whitewash;
• gouache;
• black marker.

Step-by-step sequence of actions:

1. Combine flour and fine salt in equal proportions, add a little water.
2. Knead the elastic dough and send it to cool in the refrigerator for two hours.
3. After this time, you can start sculpting. Make 4 balls from the salt dough. These will be the sheep's feet. Place them as shown in the picture.
4. Roll up a piece of foil and place it in the dough ball. Then you need to roll a ball out of the flatbread - this is the body of the lamb, it needs to be laid on top of the paws.
5. Now use pieces of dough to form a head, curled horns, ears and eyes.
6. To get something like curly sheep's wool, roll a lot of small balls and place them evenly on the back of our animal.
7. The workpiece is ready. All that remains is to place it in the oven, preheated to the minimum temperature. The sheep should dry thoroughly without cracking. At a temperature of 50 °C it will take about 3 hours to dry and up to half an hour to cool.
8. Then cover the entire surface of the figure with white. Wait until they are completely dry.
9. Color the sheep with gouache. And using a permanent marker you can draw eyelashes, a mouth, outline horns and other details as desired.
10. Finally, varnish the lamb. The varnish will add shine and smoothness, giving the craft a finished look.

Testoplasty allows you to create not only small voluminous souvenirs, but also entire paintings from salt dough. Of course, creating them will require some skills, patience and perseverance. However, the result can exceed all expectations, becoming a wonderful gift for loved ones or decorating the interior of your home.

We act in stages:

1. Creating a painting, like any other dough craft, begins with preparing the dough itself. There are many different variations of recipes, but the most popular is this: 1 tbsp. finely ground salt, 2 tbsp. flour, 200 ml water. Knead elastic salted dough for crafts, pack it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
2. Take out the finished material and you can start creating by pinching off a piece of dough from the bag (it crusts quite quickly in the air).
3. To connect parts together, use water rather than glue.
4. It is most convenient to create a picture on foil. It is necessary to dry the result: in the oven or in the air.
5. When the craft is dry, paint it with gouache and cover it with two layers of varnish.
6. Finally, attach the picture to canvas or any other fabric in the frame.

All kinds of cats, birds, snowmen, bears, dachshunds, flowers and much more look very beautiful. You can create paintings based on the plot of a particular fairy tale - this will be especially interesting for children. You can see some examples of work for inspiration in the pictures.

Symbolic mucous figurines

Salt dough is a great alternative to clay. And crafts made from it can become a unique decoration for your home or an original idea for a gift. It has long been believed that flour in the house is a symbol of prosperity and family well-being.

Regardless of what kind of figures you plan to make, the dough for them can be prepared according to one of the recipes given above.

1. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin until it is 0.5 cm thick.
2. Make imprints of any cookie cutters on this sheet. These are future salt dough figures.
3. Turn on the oven and line a baking tray with baking paper.
4. Using a wooden spatula or simply using your hands, transfer the figures to the baking sheet.
5. Using a cocktail straw or a toothpick, make a hole in each of the figures so that you can then thread a thread through it and hang the figures, say, on a Christmas tree (or hang around the house).
6. Bake the products in the oven at minimum temperature for several hours.
7. Transfer them to a flat surface and let cool.
8. Color the toys as you wish.

Here are some more examples of mukosolek designs that are easy to make and look amazing!

1. Each recipe for salted dough for crafts involves using exclusively wheat or rye flour (but definitely not pancake flour) and finely ground salt (not iodized, since the dough will not be homogeneous, but with large inclusions).
2. The mixing water should be very cold. Add it in portions, carefully kneading the dough. Depending on the flour you choose, different amounts of water may be required.
3. The dough should not stick to your hands or crumble. If it doesn't stick well, add a little water, and if it sticks, add a little flour.
4. Salt dough is perfectly stored in the refrigerator in a plastic bag or in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Use it piece by piece as needed, because the finished dough in the air quickly becomes covered with a dry crust, which spoils the appearance of the products. The test shelf life is 1 week.
5. Crafts made from small elements look more elegant. To ensure that the parts adhere well to each other, moisten the joints with water using a brush.
6. To tint the dough itself, add a little food coloring diluted in water (for Easter eggs). You can create new shades from dough of different colors: to do this, simply knead the multi-colored pieces with your fingers.

Testoplasty is not just children's fun, but also a correctional activity that allows you to develop fine motor skills, perseverance and imagination of children, cultivating aesthetic taste. And for adults, this is a great way to express themselves and recuperate. We wish you inspiration, and let creativity be only a joy!

Salt dough is an affordable and environmentally friendly material, and modeling from it will not leave either you or your child indifferent. The pleasure delivered by the achieved result and the process itself cannot be compared with anything, and that is why we invite you to get acquainted with the ideas for creativity in this section and please your baby with a new exciting activity.

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Salty dough

Have you ever heard of salt dough modeling? No? Then you've come to the right place. After all, this is where we can tell you a lot of interesting things and explain exactly how this is done. When you look at the end result, it seems that doing all this is very easy, but in reality this process is not so simple. It, just like any other type of needlework, has its secrets and little tricks.

First of all, this is the dough. You can learn how to do it correctly from our materials. Secondly, dough is not the only item that we need when modeling; we also need to stock up on a rolling pin, a sharpened stick or pencil, scissors and a knife. Thirdly, in order for the product not to deform and look beautiful, it must be properly dried, painted, and then varnished on top.

The plastic material, accessible to everyone, allows you to create unique items for the interior. Salt dough has long been used to make beautiful crafts. Together with your child, you can sculpt animal figurines, New Year’s compositions, and even entire thematic pictures from the pliable mass.

Features of working with salt dough

Anyone can make crafts from this material - Small child, beginning to practice the art of modeling, and an adult who mastered the process in kindergarten. To prevent the sculpted product from deteriorating, you need to do everything correctly - prepare the mass for modeling directly and dry the figures. Coloring also has its secrets, which you will definitely learn about.

• How to prepare salted play dough

The consistency is easy to work with, but for a successful craft, proper mixing is necessary. If you correctly follow all the proportions indicated in the master classes, you can make a pliable material. Figures made from it retain their original appearance. There are two popular salt dough recipes that are successfully practiced among homemade hand-made lovers.

Recipe No. 1

• wheat flour (WS) – 500 g;
• water (necessarily cold) – 200 ml;
• “Extra” salt – 200 g.

According to this recipe, the mass turns out to be of high quality, plastic and edible (which is important). All components of the material are edible, so it is great for teaching young children during developmental activities. If a child eats a finished craft, it will not cause harm to his own health. Products made from safe materials are the best choice for a curious baby.

Recipe No. 2

It is also suitable for sculpting with kids, because the consistency is plastic and you can sculpt anything. During the game, the child must be closely monitored so that the mass is not eaten. To prepare, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:

• premium white flour – 500 g;
• water (cold) – 200 ml;
• PVA glue – 2 tbsp.

The adhesive component in the composition guarantees the stability of the product made from the mass. This composition can be easily tinted and painted, and in addition, has a long hardening period (it is easy to correct minor defects in the finished craft). Try both recipes to find the best one for your needs (depending on age, skill, etc.).

• How to dry crafts made from salt dough

– an obligatory stage in creating crafts from salt dough, thanks to which the products acquire strength. The drying process requires certain conditions, because at room temperature the figurine will not reach the desired condition, because in twenty-four hours it will dry out by only one millimeter. In the summer you can try to put it in the air, but this will not give much results. It is best to use an oven:

• At a temperature of 75°C, drying time will be an hour.
• At a temperature of 100°C – an hour.
• At a temperature of 120°C – half an hour.
• At a temperature of 150°C – half an hour.

Large items should be dried longer, but for small crafts the time can be reduced. To prevent the dough from sticking, cover the baking dish with foil. Decor in the form of beads, rhinestones, and beads should be dried at a temperature not exceeding 120 °C. You should not use a microwave oven or place crafts on a hot radiator, otherwise they may immediately become deformed and crack. From time to time you need to turn the figures over in the oven so that they are evenly baked on all sides.

• How to color dough products

The created and dried figurine can be painted in any of your favorite colors. The best choice for these purposes would be acrylic paint or gouache. The painted product must be coated with colorless nail polish so that the paint lasts a long time and does not lose its richness and brightness over time. You can make a colored mass by adding the desired tone (it is better to use food coloring) while kneading the flour.

What can you make from salt dough with your own hands?

Having mastered the technique of creating salted material for modeling, you can easily achieve mastery in which you can make crafts of any complexity. A new hobby can interest not only an adult, but also a child. Plastic dough is a wonderful material for creativity, development of hand motor skills, concentration and much more. There are a lot of ideas on what can be made from play dough, and crafts can be of any complexity and be interesting to children of all ages.

Simple figures for children 2-3 years old

Having plastic material at hand, you can organize an educational activity for the youngest children. What can you make from salt dough for a two-year-old child? First, you should introduce the baby to the material - let him hold the mass in his hands, then clearly show what the dough is capable of, that is, make a bun or a snowman.

Small children are not capable of grandiose crafts, so it’s better to start by following the easiest method and doing everything step by step:

• Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, and then press small objects in the form of curly pasta, beans or buttons onto the finished layer.
• Cut out dough with cookie cutters.
• Roll balls of different sizes from plastic material, creating little men, a snowman, a kolobok, and a smesharik.
• Roll out sausages, making snails, caterpillars and other elementary figures.

For children 3-4 years old

For children three or four years old, rolling out alone is not enough, because the child has already grown up and can perform more complex tasks. An interesting idea for creative activities would be pictures made from salt dough. The child, with the help of an adult, will create a three-dimensional image on a piece of paper, and then color it. Pictures can convey any plot: from seasons and mini-images of the country to episodes of fairy tales and cartoons.

For modeling with children 5-6 years old and older

If you can’t give small children intricate tasks, creative six-year-olds can master complex crafts made from salt dough. For example, these could be figurines in the form of a three-dimensional sheep, a mouse on cheese, or an original vase with a chic bouquet of flowers. Children aged five to six years can master handcraft techniques using a salty consistency. Following the example of an adult, a child can cope even with those products that require significant concentration and manual dexterity.

How to make crafts from salt dough - step-by-step instructions

The process of sculpting crafts is easy, takes some time, but gives you a chance to pay attention to your baby. With easy-to-follow instructions and several educational video tutorials at hand, parents can quickly figure out how to make a certain craft from salt dough and explain it to their child. There are many product options, choose one or more and get started!

Flowers

The created products will look not just beautiful, but also believable. For example, to make a rose, minimal effort is required:

• Roll out a layer from the dough prepared in advance (no more than half a centimeter thick).
• Using a round object in the shape of a glass, squeeze out five identical petal elements.
• Place the circles horizontally on top of each other so that each component touches, protruding a centimeter.
• Roll the steps into one roll, and then place the whole structure with one side on a hard table surface.
• Spread the petals of the bud on the top of the flower from the center in different directions.

Toys for the New Year

Original decorations are made easily and quickly. If you don’t know what you can make from salted play dough for the New Year, consider hanging toys for the Christmas tree. To make it you will need salt dough, colored paints and wire for fastening:

• Bell. You need to roll out the ball and make a bell-skirt. Attach the tongue to a wire, which will serve as a fastener to spruce or pine branches. Dry the finished figure and paint it in bright shades.
• Figurines-pendants. Use a cookie cutter to make a figure. Use a toothpick or cocktail straw to make a hole in the top. After drying, paint the toys, and thread a thick thread or thin ribbon into the hole.

Crafts for February 23

The best gift for a man will be a symbolic gift that can emphasize valor, courage and strength. Thanks to special molds in the shape of a tank, a soldier, or a ship, you can easily make a gift for February 23rd. To do this, roll out the salt dough into a layer and squeeze out the selected shapes from it using a mold. All that remains is to dry the souvenirs and paint them in military color.

Souvenirs for March 8

The best gift on Women's Day is flowers. Why not make them from salt dough? From plastic material you can create a bouquet that will delight you with its beauty for many years. A vase of flowers would be an excellent gift for a friend, mother, sister, or grandmother:

1. Make the mass according to the classic recipe, roll out the layer to half a centimeter, cut a 15x10 cm rectangle from the piece.
2. Create a hole in the top of the figure with a cocktail straw. This will make it possible to hang the product on the wall.
3. Form a ball from another part of the dough, roll it out and make a vase, bending the neck slightly. Secure onto the prepared rectangular base.
4. Roll out three stems, attaching them to the vase.
5. Cut circles for the bud and twist to form a rose.
6. Oval figures will serve as petals, on which make stripes.
7. Decorate the vase with voluminous balls or chamomile.
8. Dry the painting, paint it, and cover it with a layer of colorless varnish.

For the holiday, you can make decorative egg pendants that can be used to decorate cabinet handles, windows, or make an original garland. To do this, you will need an oval shape to squeeze out flat eggs from the material. On the top edge of the egg, use a cocktail tube or a marker cap to make a hole for the ribbon. Place the product on a baking sheet in the oven, dry it, and then apply the design you like to the eggs using acrylic paints or gouache. Secure the crafts on a long ribbon.

Video

There are an unlimited number of ideas for creating crafts from salt dough. There are a lot of master classes that help you get trained, and then make a memorable gift from the miracle material, for example, for a birthday. Beginning craftsmen who want to turn a simple hobby of crafts into a favorite hobby will be helped by a video that shows step by step what can be made from salted play dough.