Crafts from dough for Easter for a competition. Holiday souvenirs and decor: Easter eggs made from salt dough

From various materials.

You can use napkins, cotton pads and even dough.

You can safely involve children in such creative work, for whom it will not only be interesting, but also useful.

Here are a few very interesting crafts for Easter, which can be made from different materials:

Dough craft for Easter: Easter eggs medallions

You will need:

Salty dough

Ruler

Dough cutter

Spatula

Tube (for small holes)

Aluminium foil

Paints (acrylic or aerosol)

Twine or ribbon.

1. Prepare salty dough. There are many ways to do this.

*If you don't want to make dough, you can replace it with polymer clay.

Here is one way to prepare salt dough:

2 cups of flour

1 tbsp. spoon of fine salt

1 tbsp. spoon of wallpaper glue

* Mix flour and salt. Add a little water to the glue (a few spoons) and wait until it swells.

* Mix flour, salt and glue - knead the dough. If desired, you can add a little water. You should get a dough that sticks to your hands.

2. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to the desired thickness. In this example, the dough thickness is 6 mm.

3. Cut out the shapes of chicken eggs from the dough.

4. Place these pans on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil or baking paper. Make small holes using a straw so that the crafts can be hung later.

5. Bake first at a low temperature - about 100 C. After that, remove aluminum foil and put the baking sheet back in the oven at 125 C. Try not to get burned. Can be used instead of foil parchment paper and bake at 120 degrees for 2 hours.

After this, place the salt dough pieces on the wire rack.

You can turn off the oven and wait until the dough is still dry.

6. Start painting your pieces, and after the paint has dried, tie a ribbon and hang it up.

Crafts for Easter from pasta: large Easter egg

You will need:

Pasta of different shapes

Felt pens (markers)

PVA glue

Paint (aerosol)

Big balloon

Hot glue.

1. Inflate the balloon.

2. Using a marker, mark the place on the ball to cut out.

3. Apply PVA glue to the entire ball except the designated area.

4. Start gluing pasta onto the ball to create a pattern.

5. When everything is dry, you need to remove the ball - pierce it with a needle.

6. It's time to decorate the craft. Here everything depends only on your imagination.

7. You can put the craft on a stand and paint it with spray paint - in this example, gold color.

DIY Easter crafts made from pasta

You will need:

Chicken eggs

Small pasta

PVA glue

Aerosol paints (if desired).

1. Discard the contents of the egg.

2. Apply PVA glue to the shell.

3. Glue to the shell small pasta(you can glue each pasta, sprinkle it or dip it in a bowl).

4. In addition to pasta, you can use lentils or peas.

5. Once the glue is dry, paint the egg. First, paint one side, and then the other half.

Paper crafts for Easter

Easter chicken. Option 1.

To make such a craft, you first need to download the template. You can also draw the template yourself.

Easter chicken. Option 2.

A paper chicken can be made from paper plates or cardboard, from which you need to cut a circle. Simply fold a paper plate in half, cut out wings, eyes, a beak and a scallop from colored paper and glue them to the plate.

3-D Chicken

For this craft, you also need to download a paper chicken model template, cut it out and color it.

Crafts from napkins for Easter: stand

1. Prepare a paper napkin and fold it in half diagonally.

2. Fold the corners of the resulting triangle up so that they connect to the top corner. You should end up with a square.

3. Roll the bottom edge of the resulting square with a roller to the middle.

4. Now turn your design over and connect the bottom corners that are under the roller. These corners should be secured with a paper clip.

5. Turn the workpiece back over so that the paperclip is at the back. Spread the ends of the blank in different directions, and you will get a beautiful stand for an Easter egg.

We paint eggs using napkins with our own hands

1. Dip a paper towel into the vinegar, squeeze out the excess, and wrap it around the egg.

2. Place the egg on a plate or baking sheet and carefully begin adding drops of colorful food coloring.

3. When the entire egg is colored, remove the paper towel and place the colored egg in the carton.

Crafts from eggs for Easter: decoupage

You will need:

White eggs

Napkins with beautiful designs and patterns

Scissors

PVA glue.

1. Separate the most from the paper napkin upper layer, you won't need the rest.

2. Cut out beautiful designs and patterns. You can cut with white edges and not necessarily neatly.

3. Prepare the egg and coat it with glue or egg white.

4. Glue the cut-out design to the egg, and apply a layer of glue on top with a brush.

When everything is dry, you will have a beautiful Easter egg.

Crafts from cotton pads for Easter: chicken

You will need:

Cotton pads

Yellow egg paint

Colored paper

Scissors

Chenille wire

1. Dilute yellow paint with water. Dip 2 cotton pads into the solution and color them. After this, leave the discs to dry.

2. Use chenille wire to make the chicken's feet.

3. Cut out a scallop, wings and beak from colored paper.

4. Glue all the parts between two cotton pads.

5. Glue on the toy eyes and the chicken is ready.

DIY Easter wreath

You will need:

Willow wreath (you can make your own wreath)

Plain paper napkins

Corrugated paper

Colored and regular cardboard

Scissors

Simple pencil

Hot glue

1. Making decorations for the wreath. Cut out several circles of different diameters from paper: the circle for the body has a diameter of 5 cm, for the head 4.5 cm. The more circles, the more voluminous the part.

2. Cut out 2 more circles from cardboard, each with a diameter of 2-3 cm. This will be the base of the chicken.

3. Now glue all the blanks. First, apply a little glue to the center of the first circle and glue the next one. Thus, glue all the circles together.

4. Glue the cardboard piece to one of the circles.

5. In a similar way, you need to glue another stack of circles.

6. Make small cuts on the circles, and then fluff the circles.

7. Cut out a chicken beak, legs and wing from colored cardboard. In order to fasten the body of the chicken, you should cut out a strip of cardboard and glue all the parts to it - the wing on one side, and everything else on the other.

8. Make eyes. You can use plasticine, buttons or other parts of suitable size and shape.

*If you wish, you can make another chicken in a different color.

9. We make decorative flowers and eggs. Take dust wipes. You can use felt, but it is more expensive. Cut out ovals that will act as Easter eggs, and various patterns for them.

Salted dough

On our website you can see many different crafts created based on salt dough.

Here one of the recipes for the manufacture of salt dough:

1Mix a glass of flour and 1 glass of salt.

Then pour in 125 ml of water(the volume is approximate, because the amount of water may depend on the type of flour you used for the dough). Stir this mass again with a spoon, and then knead with your hands until a homogeneous consistency. Some people use a mixer for this purpose.

By the way, water can be replaced with jelly made from potato starch(Dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Then pour another 1 cup of boiling water into this liquid, stirring. When the jelly thickens and becomes transparent, remove from heat. You get a paste). The dough will only benefit from such a replacement - it becomes more plastic.

Just don't overdo it! If the dough is too soft, knead it with a small amount mixture of flour and salt additionally. Salty dough there must be dense.

Now you can sculpt! It is better to sculpt on a sheet or board - this a good place for drying. The drying itself is carried out at a temperature of +80C in the oven for an hour, or on a radiator (in winter period). The drying time depends on the thickness of the figurine.

If you need color salty dough , then it can be colored either at the kneading stage, using food coloring or gouache, which is convenient when working with small children; or color it already ready product after complete drying.

And our craftswomen have their own subtleties and secrets for working with salt dough. That's why , go to the blog , Whose work did you like and ask! I’m sure the craftswomen will be happy to share with you!

P.S. Reminder on how to make the required color:

cyan = blue + white

pink = white + red

purple = blue + pink

green = blue + yellow

orange = yellow + red

brown = green + red

emerald = green + blue

flesh = light pink + a little yellow

gold and silver will be obtained if you add the corresponding color of gouache or acrylic, in the same way you can get glitter dough(gel for gouache)

When working with salt dough many people come up with amazing ideas beautiful names - testoplasty , bioceramics and even, flour ! But whatever you call it, the result sometimes exceeds all our expectations! The birth of a salt dough masterpiece is always an event! Happy creativity and peace to everyone!

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From this article you will learn how to make salt dough yourself and how to dry it. Lots of photos and step-by-step instructions will help you make a dough craft for any holiday.

For modeling lessons with small children, it is better to use salt dough or Play Doh plasticine.

How to make dough for crafts: recipe

You can make the dough yourself; all you need is a few simple ingredients: flour, fine salt, lemon acid, vegetable oil and water.

First mix 1 cup of flour with 0.5 cups of salt and 2 teaspoons citric acid. Pour into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of oil to the dry mixture. Place over medium heat, gradually add water and stir. No more than 0.5 cup of water should be used. When the mass pulls away from the walls of the pan and becomes one lump, remove the pan from the heat. Take out the mixture, place it on a board sprinkled with flour, and regular dough, knead with your hands.

If you want to do colored dough for modeling, first you need to dilute dry food coloring. It is also possible already in ready dough add a little gouache and knead it well until the color becomes uniform.

How to prepare salt dough for modeling?

Prepare salt dough. Paint it in different colors, depending on what you want to make. The dough can be made uncolored, divided into balls and add a little gouache of the desired color to each and knead. It's better to make the dough in regular colors, and then mix them to achieve the desired one.

Keep the dough in a bag, or wrap it in cling film, can be placed in a closed container to prevent it from drying out. If it is still dry, add a little water, and if it is too wet, add a little flour.

Make the dough thinner and simply spread it on the base of the craft, so you can make butter on a piece of bread, or make it from brown dough chocolate glaze for the cake
Try on the food you made with the toy plates that you will later play with so that they match in size
To stick the salt dough pieces together, use a wet brush. Apply a brush to the joint and stick the parts to each other
When making food for dolls, it is very important to make the dough as much as possible the same color as the original, for example, the carrots should be orange, not yellow or red
To prevent the colors from fading, open the craft with varnish. For activities with children, you need to use special harmless varnishes; they do not have unpleasant odor because they are water based

Drying figures from salt dough for modeling

There are two ways to dry salt dough crafts.

Air dry crafts. It is best if you place them on a smooth surface and leave them for several days. When the craft is dry, turn it over or lay it on its side so that it dries on all sides.
Baking in the oven. Preheat the oven well, place baking paper on a baking sheet, place crafts on top, place in the oven and turn off the heat. The oven should be closed and not opened until completely dry. You can also bake crafts at a temperature of 100°C, but in this case you need to watch them so that they do not burn

These two methods can be combined, for example, dry it in the oven for an hour, then leave it in the air, after a while in the oven, and so on until it dries.

Of course, if the craft contains other decorations (beads, beads), you need to dry it using the first method.

New Year's crafts made from salt dough

The child will really enjoy decorating the house before the New Year and making handicrafts together with his parents.

Christmas tree toys made from dough

You can make excellent ones from salt dough Christmas decorations, and even kids can handle making them.

Prepare the play dough different colors or unpainted
Roll out a flat cake and squeeze out a shape; you can use cookie cutters
Make a hole with a cocktail straw so that you can hang the figurine on the Christmas tree.
Decorate the toy as you and your child want: stick colorful balls on the Christmas tree, make a garland for it, let it rain, add a white snowball to the toy
Unpainted dough can be dried first and then painted with paints or markers
Dry the dough or bake in the oven
Pass the ribbon through the hole and hang the toy on the tree

You can make a lot of holes in the figures.

Or stick beads, beads and other beautiful stones into the dough, but in this case these toys cannot be baked in the oven.

You can decorate toys with ribbons or decorative ropes.

After the dough has dried, apply PVA glue to it and sprinkle the figures with glitter.

Color the uncolored dried dough with a permanent marker.

Cut out a figure in the shape of a mitten, make it a beautiful colored ribbon from colored dough and decorate it with a homemade button. This figurine can be baked in the oven.

Print your baby's palm and draw Santa Claus in it - it will not only be a wonderful toy for christmas tree, but will also remain as a memory.

You can also make a Santa Claus toy like this. To give him a beard, use a garlic press.

Make these other gingerbread toys from brown dough.

Making a New Year's candle from dough

To make a New Year's candle you will need modeling dough of different colors, a cardboard cylinder, for example, from a roll of paper napkins and red and yellow napkins.

Let your child roll colorful sausages.
Stick them on our cardboard base

Decorate it with colorful balls
You can simply cover a cardboard cylinder with one color and then decorate it

Make a fire out of napkins and attach it to the top of our candle

Christmas tree made from dough

First make a preparation for the Christmas tree; for this you will need a cardboard container of juice or milk. First cut off its top, cut along the side folds, and open it. You need to cut off the excess from the rectangles so that you get isosceles triangles. See how to do this in the diagram below

Glue a cardboard base for your Christmas tree

Now let your child decorate it: let him cover it with green dough - you will get a Christmas tree. All that remains is to add balls, a garland, a star, and don’t forget about the gifts under the Christmas tree

You can also make a Christmas tree like this

Easter crafts made from salt dough

For Easter you can make the following crafts from salt dough:

Decorated eggs made from flatbread dough

Bunny figures cut from salted dough flatbread.
Decorated three-dimensional Easter egg

Egg cup

Easter eggs made from dough

Even a baby can cope with this task.

Take the dough and mold it into an egg-shaped figure.
Decorate it as you and your child want.

You can use mixed dough of different colors for the base, or you can make a base from unpainted dough and then paint it with paints or markers. Open the eggs with glue and sprinkle with cosmetic glitter. Glue the multi-colored balls; to do this, moisten the joint with a wet brush. Press beads, pasta, cereal, and other decorations into the eggs. Make prints with different objects.

In general, fantasize!

Dough egg cup

For this you will need a cardboard cylinder, dough and paints.

Cover a cut circle of cardboard with unpainted dough and mold it into a tail, head and other parts, as shown in the diagrams below.

Don't forget to cover the stand on all sides with dough.

Decorate the craft as your imagination dictates; you can use gouache or watercolors.

Open with water-based varnish to make the colors brighter and the craft to last longer.

Dough crafts for February 14th for Valentine's Day

What does everyone associate with this wonderful holiday? Of course the heart! Let's make a festive heart with your child and give it to your parents.

Salt dough heart

Here, as everywhere else, we first make the base, in our case the heart, and decorate it!

You can decorate it with roses, it will be very beautiful. How to sculpt roses, see step-by-step instructions with photos below.

You can make a keychain like this with paws.

These cute couples are made very quickly and easily.

You can make a lot of these heart figures, make holes in them and make a garland out of them, which you can use to decorate a wall in your house.

Dough photo frame

Make a blank heart, decorate it and use it as a family photo frame with reverse side secure with colored cardboard.

Salt dough decoration

This kind of love fish will definitely suit your mother’s outfit on this special day.

Crafts from dough for March 8

On March 8th you can make these flower keychains for mothers, grandmothers, aunts and sisters. They can be done with younger children. Can be used colorful dough or unpainted, and then decorate it with paints.

You can make this flower candlestick for a gift.

Make such interesting medals with your children, and most importantly, they are all different. Let the child give them himself.

Make figures in the shape of a figure eight and decorate them with flowers, stones, beads, in general, whatever your imagination allows.

Make a pendant with your child, for example, in the shape of a heart and decorate it: make flowers, leaves, decorate with paints, sign a congratulation.

Salt dough roses

Take play dough, need colors
Making a cone

Roll the ball, flatten it carefully into a round cake
Stick the ball to the cone

We make a second ball and glue it on the other side - we have a bud
We make a few more balls and also sculpt petals from them. We chain them in a circle

We bend the upper edges of the petals slightly back, and press the sides to the center

We make several side by side, depending on how lush you want the flower to be.

The rose is ready!

If necessary, make leaves from green dough, press the veins with a toothpick. Make legs from sausages. Combine all the details into one flower.

Crafts from dough for February 23

You will definitely like this medal.

Airplane - craft made from salt dough

A wonderful gift for dad or grandfather would be a salt dough airplane.

Roll out the base for the figure - this will be the body
Bend one side of it a little - this will be the tail. Attach the remaining parts to it

Roll up the wheels and fenders for it

Go over with a damp brush and attach the parts to the body

Blind and attach wings in the form of triangles on toothpicks

Make a propeller and also attach it to the body using a toothpick

Let the figurine dry for several days

Decorate the airplane with gouache

Crafts from dough for Maslenitsa

Maslenitsa is an ancient holiday that has many symbols and traditions. Crafts for this holiday are very diverse, you have plenty to choose from.

For the little ones, you can suggest making a sun, which symbolizes the onset of spring.

This is some sunshine for older children.

Invite your child to make their own pancakes from salt dough.

Pancake keychains

Panels and pictures made from salt dough

With older children, you can make a picture from salt dough.

For example, it could be a fruit basket. Follow step by step instructions from the photo below.

Roll out uncolored dough to a thickness of approximately 0.5 cm
Prepare a basket template and, applying it to the dough, cut out the basket from it.
Squeeze out the dough using a garlic press, twist it into flagella, stick it, moistening the joint first, onto the handle of your future basket. You can also add flagella to the rim

Using a stack or knife, push through lines to imitate basket weaving

Squeeze out the rolled out dough with a mold or cut out several leaves according to the template. Sell them veins
Stick leaves on the basket

Now prepare the fruits: apples, plums, grapes, etc. Roll them into balls of different sizes and give them the required form. For apples, stick cloves in the place where the dried inflorescence should have been, the apples will look like real ones
Combine everything in one picture

Leave your craft to dry for several days, preferably naturally
Decorate as you wish

This is a simpler picture you can make with smaller children.

Draw a background for it
Draw the outlines of the character figures
Ask your child to stick the dough without going beyond the outline.
Leave the painting to dry
When it's dry, invite your child to decorate the characters with paints.
Add small details
Open the picture with varnish, put it in a frame and you can hang it on the wall

Step-by-step dough crafts

Below are some step-by-step instructions with photos for modeling salt dough with children.

Salt dough beads

We take colored dough, it can be one color, it can be different
We roll balls out of it, preferably evenly and of the same size. You can make the size descending
Pierce the balls carefully in the center with a toothpick
We leave them to air dry for several days. Periodically turn them over to different sides.
When the balls are dry, carefully remove the toothpicks
We string the resulting beads onto a string or ribbon.
You can paint the beads with paints or markers

Horseshoe made of salt dough

Roll out the dough into a flat cake, 1 cm thick
Attach the horseshoe template and cut out the figure with a knife
Blind the leaves, cut off the excess, press the veins on them
Make berries and a flower, use a toothpick to make holes in the berries and stripes on the flower
Lubricate the horseshoe with water and stick all the parts
Use a toothpick to make holes around the perimeter of the horseshoe. Make two through holes at the top to hang the figurine on a cord
Leave the horseshoe until completely dry or bake in the oven
The dough can initially be taken of a certain color for each part, or you can decorate it with paints at the end

Dough star

Roll out the dough into a layer approximately 1cm thick
Using a cookie cutter, cut out a star or other shape
Gently lubricate the corners with a wet finger so that they are smooth
Decorate the figurine: make eyes, mouth, nose, poke holes with a toothpick, add decorations
Bake in the oven or air dry
Open with varnish

Dough caterpillar

Rolling a sausage from green dough
Cut it into equal circles and roll them into balls
We stick the balls together, do not forget to moisten the joint.
Making a face for the caterpillar
We pierce the figure with a toothpick or a pin in the place where we will attach it to the ring
Drying our craft

Salt dough apple

Roll out the ball of dough into the shape of half an apple. To ensure an even cut, press it onto a flat surface.
Add a flat white center
Roll apple seeds and a tail from brown dough. We make leaves from green
We collect the figurine and dry it

Crafts made from salt dough - hedgehog

Form the body and head of a hedgehog from uncolored dough.

Make him a nose and eyes, you can use black dough or peppercorns

Using nail scissors, cut the dough, making needles, lift them up a little. Cut the second row in a checkerboard pattern, and so on until the end.

Leave the hedgehog to dry. When it has completely hardened, you can decorate it with paints and spray it with varnish.

Crafts made from salt dough - animals

You can sculpt many animals from salt dough with children. Below are some step-by-step instructions with photos.

Dough sheep

Roll 4 balls - these will be the sheep's feet. Place them in a square, pressing their sides tightly against each other (look at the photo)
Fold up a piece of foil and place it inside the dough ball. Roll it into a ball - this will be the body of a sheep
Add a head to the sheep, make balls-eyes, horns and ears from sausages
To imitate wool, make a lot of small balls and stick them around the back of the figure, pressing them down a little
Dry your craft and decorate with paints and/or markers

Salt dough owl

Roll out the dough into a round cake
Use a felt-tip pen cap to press waves, imitating plumage.
Fold the sides inward - these will be wings
Fold the top part towards the center too, extending it a little on the sides - this will be the head and ears
Stamp the eyes with a cap and add a beak with a toothpick
Dry and paint

Dough elephant

Roll the ball, stretch it out a little - this will be the body of the elephant
Make 4 thick sausages - these will be the legs
Make a trunk from another one
Make a tail out of a thin sausage
Roll out two flat cakes, place plates of smaller diameter on them and Pink colour- you will get ears
Collect everything into one figurine and don’t forget about the eyes
Dry the elephant and open it with varnish

Dough crafts - cat

Cut out a cat template from cardboard

Roll out the dough into a 0.5 cm layer
Attach the template and cut out the cat from the dough

Let the dough dry
Using sandpaper, sand around the perimeter of the figure.

Paint the cat with a pencil and then with paints, let dry

Frame the panel

Making fish from salt dough

Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 to 1 cm
Cut out the fish according to the template
Decorate it: make voluminous eyes, fins and a tail, imitate scales with caps from felt-tip pens or other improvised means

Let the mushroom dry and decorate it

Dough crafts - fruits and vegetables

You can make a lot of salt dough various vegetables and fruits, with which you can then play and feed the dolls.

Remember that the colors of food for dolls should be matched as closely as possible to the original ones.

By following step-by-step instructions and photos, you can make interesting figures from salt dough, which you can then give to friends and family on holiday. different holidays. We hope in this article you found many interesting works and useful information. Have fun activities and beautiful crafts!

VIDEO: Craft from salt dough “Owl”

Why do we love holidays? Probably because it’s nice to prepare for them: think about gifts, set the table. But there are special, bright celebrations in our lives, such as Easter. On Easter, people give each other small Easter gifts: painted eggs, Easter cakes, baskets, Easter souvenirs. Children love to prepare crafts for Easter with their own hands; they are so interested in taking part in the preparation and work. We have selected the most interesting master classes for children and adults from a variety of crafts.

We offer crafts for Easter from the simplest materials, the purchase of which does not break your pocket; they are always available in any regular store.

This interesting basket for eggs can be easily made from a disposable plate, wooden clothespins and tape.

Cut a disposable plate with scissors:

Glue the sides together and seal the top with paper or tape. Separate the clothespins and glue them with Moment glue. We secure the top with a thin braid.

We cut strips of paper into the bottom and make a handle from cardboard. Decorate with a bow or several.

We print out the bunny template or draw it on a sheet of cardboard or thick paper. We paint on both sides, glue and place a beautiful Easter egg in the paws.

We make chickens from disposable spoons, cotton pads, and colored paper.

You can make the same funny bunnies:

More Easter-themed crafts: unusual egg plates. How beautiful multi-colored eggs will look on such an original plate! Cut out 4 legs and a bunny's head from white paper, and decorate the face. We put clothespins on a plate and glue paper paws to them. Place chopped white paper on the bottom of the plate.

We make a plate with chicken in the same way. Differences: yellow paper and the size of the paws.

DIY gifts for Easter

There are so many ideas for gifts for Easter, you’ll get tired of choosing. I would like to hope that our master classes will help you in your choice.

From paper

An Easter basket for the upcoming holiday can be made from an ordinary paper bag. Or from beautiful wrapping paper, maybe you have leftover candy boxes. There are many options. Multi-colored ones will look original in such an interesting basket. Easter eggs or tasty treats.

To work you will need:

Paper.
Scissors.
Ruler.
Hot-melt gun or regular paper glue.
Pencil.

If you took a bag for work, you need to cut off the bottom of it. Cut the side. Using a ruler and pencil, draw the paper into strips 3 cm wide.

We bend all the strips in half along the entire length.

We begin to weave a basket from the strips, as in the photo.

To prevent the parts from getting tangled, glue the strips to the top of the basket, then cut it all off. Glue the handle and glue the top of the basket.

We will make an interesting chicken stand for Easter eggs as a gift. There are several recipes for making dough.

Recipe for wheat flour dough:

Flour - 2 cups.
Extra salt - 1 glass.
Cold water - 250 grams.
Bag for storing products.
1 tbsp. spoon of sunflower oil.

Recipe for products made from rye flour:

3 cups (300 gr.) wheat flour.
1 cup (100 gr.) rye flour.
2 cups (400 gr.) fine salt.
250 ml water.

Rye flour gives the figures a warm bread color. To prepare any dough, mix flour and salt, then pour in gradually cold water and mix again. The degree of readiness of the dough can be determined as follows: if the dough stretches and sticks to your hands, it means there is a lot of water in it. Therefore, you need to add more flour.

To work you will need:

The dough is salty.
Stack.
Peeler.
Toothpick.
Manicure file.
Black peppercorns.
Paints, brush.
The varnish is transparent.
Garlic press.

Roll out the flatbread to a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm, this will be the chicken’s nest itself. We make the side parts of the nest using a garlic press. We form a “straw” by moistening it with water.

Leave the work to dry for 1 day so that the dough holds its shape well in the future. Let's start sculpting the chicken. We sculpt the body blank. We need the chicken as a stand for an egg, which means we need to make a recess for the Easter egg. Let's take it round shape, make a notch, sculpt the breast and neck of the chicken. Use a vegetable peeler to feather the breast.

Insert a toothpick into the chicken's neck, leaving 1.5 cm. Connect the nest and the chicken's body. Roll out the dough, make wing blanks 1 cm thick. Draw the plumage with a vegetable peeler, attach it to the body of the chicken, moistening it with water.

Next, our task is to give the chicken a beautiful tail. We take an oval cake 0.7-1 cm thick as a basis. We make the plumage with a vegetable cutter. We trim the edges of the tail with a knife to resemble the pattern of feathers. Make the cuts neat, smoothing them with your fingers. Attach the tail to the chicken's body. Place something under your tail, such as a ball or an apple. After the product dries, remove the apple.

Roll into a round ball for the head. We shape the scallop using our fingers and a stack, giving it the desired look.

To make the eyes, you need to mark their location. Make dents for the eyes with a stack. Next, use a vegetable peeler to make dents so that the eye becomes shaped.

Insert a peppercorn instead of the pupil. We make a beak and sculpt it to the head.

We fasten the head and body by putting the head on a toothpick. We attach a small strip of dough to stabilize the head. Decorate the chicken neck with dough feathers. You can make “earrings” for the chicken from pieces of dough.

We sculpt chickens in the same way. Don't forget to wet the parts for better fastening.

We leave the product to dry for 1-2 days, placing them in a distant place, maybe even on a closet. After a day or two, when the chickens and chickens have hardened, we finalize the work: we plant the figures on leaves, moistening the centers with water. Leave it in the air for 1-2 days. We dry the products first in air, and then put them in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees for 1 hour. After drying, paint and cover with clear varnish.

Another option: dough figures: we make Easter bunnies, hens, chicks. You can make fridge magnets out of them, or pendants on willow branches.

Most quick option gifts - multi-colored paper napkins and ribbons. Twist it boiled egg into a napkin and tie with a ribbon. Can be replaced with corrugated paper.

This funny and interesting Easter chicken can be crocheted.

To work you will need:

Yellow yarn, 100% cotton or 50/50,
Some orange and white yarn.
Hook number 3.

We start knitting from the body. First 7 rows:

1st - 8 sc in an amigurami loop
2nd - knit 2 sc in each loop (16 sc)
3rd - 1 sc, 2 sc, and so on (24 sc)
4th - in every third loop add: 2 sc, 2 sc (32 sc)
5th - in each 4 p. add: 3 RLS, 2 RLS (40 RLS)
6th - in every 5 p. add: 4 RLS, 2 RLS (48 RLS)
7th - in every 6 p. add: 5 RLS, 2 RLS (56 RLS)

15th - knit the 5th and 6th stitches together (40 sc)
16th - we knit 2 rows without decreasing (40 RLS)
18th - knit the 4th and 5th stitches together to decrease (32 RLS)
19th - no decreases (32 RLS)

We fill the chicken with cotton wool or padding polyester.

20th - knit every 2nd and 3rd stitch together (16 sc)
21st - knit every two loops together (8 sc)
Cut the thread and carefully sew up the hole.

Wings (2 wings):

1st - dial 7 air. loops with yellow yarn, 1 sc in the second loop from the hook, 4 sc, 3 sc in one loop, 4 sc, conn. P.
2nd - 1 VP, 4 RLS, two times 2 RLS in one stitch, 3 RLS in one loop, two times 2 RLS in one loop, conn. P.
3rd - 1 VP, 1 sc in each loop
4th - 1 VP, 1 connection. p. in each loop

We knit the paws with orange yarn:

1st - 2 VP, 6 sc in the second loop from the hook (6 sc)
3rd - increase in every second stitch (18 RLS)
4th - row without changes (18 RLS)

Beak (1 piece)

1st - cast on 5 VP, 1 sc in the 2nd loop from the hook, half-dc, 1 dc, and 1 dc2h

Eyes (2 parts)

1st - 6 sc in amigurami loop (6 sc)
2nd - increase in each stitch (12 sc)
3rd - increase in every 2nd stitch (18 sc)
The beads are different (colors are indicated next to the diagrams).
2 meters of thin fishing line or nylon thread.
2 beading needles.

We start weaving from the central row from number 1 to number 2, then we perform each part separately at different ends of the fishing line, using the table.

In the egg weaving pattern, notice the double rows (12 and 13 at the top, 13 and 14 at the bottom). For a chicken-shaped keychain in the upper part, we first weave the right wing (numbers 5 to 9), and then the left wing (numbers 10 to 16). Next, we move on to the design of the head (numbers 17 to 40).

What would Easter be without Easter cakes, Easter eggs, souvenirs and angels? You can make these original Easter angels with your own hands from regular pasta. Pasta can be anything: stars, cones, spirals, vermicelli. Such angels can be hung on a willow branch or placed in Easter basket.

To work you will need:

Pasta.
Ribbons or sticks.
Hot-melt gun or Moment glue.
PVA glue.
Salt dough balls.

Use a glue gun to connect the head (dough ball) to the body. Next, glue the ribbon to the back. We select wings from pasta and glue on top of the braid.

Thickly coat the angel's head with PVA glue and lower it into small vermicelli or stars. This is the "hair" of an angel.

For hands, use openwork pasta. Apply glue thickly on the sides, near the wings and glue.

Paint or plain paint golden color or aerosol.

If you want to insert them into an Easter basket, insert a stick inside the pasta body and glue it, the crafts are ready.

Easter is a great and bright holiday, personifying the triumph of the Christian spirit, repentance coupled with hope and faith. In anticipation of the bright day of the Resurrection of Christ, everyone carefully prepares their monasteries for the meeting, cleaning and decorating everything around. I want my soul and body to be clean and renewed. And the house pleased the eye with its freshness.

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Every year more and more decorations appear in stores on the eve of the Holy Day. Housewives enjoy decorating their “family nests,” but there is nothing more valuable than DIY crafts. The inhabitants of the house put their own special mood, a certain message and energy into the most ordinary decorative element.

Joint creation of decorations for Easter is especially valuable where there are small children. For example, DIY Easter crafts made from salt dough will be a fun adventure for them and new knowledge of the upcoming holiday. This moment brings the family together, helps to unite and create a sweet family tradition.

Particularly loved by folk craftsmen and handmade lovers Easter crafts from salt dough with your own hands. This type of creativity is just beginning to conquer with its unsurpassed style and interesting technique, but it appeared a long time ago. This is an original Slavic custom, evidence of which can be seen even in folk tales. Remember, for example, Kolobok, which the grandmother created, not at all thinking that the fate of this stucco would be so difficult. This fairy-tale hero can also be remembered in conversations with the youngest family members. Easter crafts made from salt dough for children will be an unusual experience and immersion in a fairy tale.

This type of creativity attracts with its technological simplicity combined with limitless possibilities for realizing your fantasies. It's hard to imagine more a budget option for crafts. In order to acquire material for creativity, you don’t need much.

Several recipes for high-quality puff pastry

Recipe No. 1:

Flour (preferably wheat) - 1.5 cups;
Salt - 0.5 cups;
Water - 0.5 cups
Vegetable oil (preferably olive, to give special elasticity to the dough) - 1 tsp.

Recipe No. 2:

Wheat flour - 2 cups;
Glue (you can use any glue you have on the farm) - 1.5 tbsp;
Salt - 3 cups;
Water - a little less than 2 glasses.

Recipe No. 3:

Flour - 2 cups;
Water - about 1 glass;
Starch (will give a special texture to the future material) - 1 - 2 tbsp. l.;
Extra salt (pre-grind in a coffee grinder or any other convenient way) - 1 cup;
Gouache (you can add it right away, and then refresh the finished product with new paint).

What can you make from salt dough for Easter?

Pleasant to the touch, pliable and accessible material allows you to bring any idea to life. Easter themes are unusually extensive. Time, inspiration, material and an idea for a future craft: that’s all you need.

You can create a whole picture with your own voluminous plot, decorate it with bright colors or leave it in minimalist pastels. Various themed figures (angels, cute little animals, futuristic flowers, etc.) will decorate and festive table, and a shelf in the house. On the eve of Easter, it will be especially relevant to create unusual eggs with a three-dimensional pattern, stands for traditional krashankas, Christian symbols.

Easter crafts made from salt dough for children should be thematic and accessible in execution. They allow your imagination to run wild with special force. Parents can allow their child to come up with their own image and translate it into the test themselves. It is worth helping a child when he wants to receive help. Such activities will stimulate the development of creative abilities, enrich the child’s tactile sensations, and improve fine motor skills of the fingers.

Where to start

Perhaps it is best to start with the simplest crafts in order to get used to working with salt dough. And this applies not only to children but also to adults. The most simple craft made from salted dough for Easter, which does not require any skills at all - these are Easter eggs, which can be decorated either in the form of a long garland or each separately.

Example No. 1 Garland of Easter eggs

Prepare the salt dough and roll it out into a large layer. Next, cut out an egg-shaped stencil from cardboard - apply it to the rolled out dough, and cut out the shapes we need from the dough. Make a hole in the top of each testicle using a pen or pencil. We send the dough to dry.

After the dough has dried, decorate it and thread a ribbon through the hole. You can tie a beautiful bow and leave the product like that, or you can tie several eggs into a long garland.

Example No. 2: A simple product - a basket

You can also try making a simple basket with eggs. Ideal for introducing children to sculpting.

The estimated size of the basket is 15 by 15 cm. The working algorithm is as follows:

We take about 100 grams. dough and form the box of the future basket at our discretion.
To add texture to the weave, you can use a regular fork. The ornament will not only enliven the future product, but also give it an optimal shape;
From two pieces of 50 g. roll two thin long sausages. Approximate length 14 - 16 cm.
You need to intertwine the pieces together and attach the formed handle to the body of the basket. Moisten the joints with water.
To make eggs, simply roll out smooth balls of similar size.
It is convenient to sculpt leaves and flowers from pieces of 5 by 2 cm. Texture can be added with the blunt side of a knife or a fork, depending on the type of leaves you intend to use.
Place the eggs in the basket and add other decorative elements.
When attaching each structural element, it is important to moisten the surface of the dough with water for better adhesion.

Example No. 3: Angel with an egg in his hands

First we create a special stencil for the future angel.
Using a stencil we cut out the base of the angel. The thickness of the dough is about 5 mm. All torn or sharp edges that form must be smoothed out with your hands.
To be sure of the strength of the future figurine, you can use toothpicks to create a reinforcement effect. To do this, just place several toothpicks along the body of the angel, in the direction of the wings and future legs.
We create the legs that will look out from the mantle. You can make your fingers into a stack.
Now you can start decorating the wings. Separate pieces of dough are used to form wing segments and attach them to the base. Patterns can be formed using a fork, pen refill and any other accessories.
The hem of the robe can be made more realistic and voluminous. To do this, a ribbon is formed from a piece of dough and figuratively attached to the base.
The angel's body should also be voluminous. This effect can be achieved by using several balls of dough to create a robe for the figurine;
We form sleeves from two pieces of stucco molding. Where the palms should appear, we make a small indentation;
For realistic hands, we form two “drops” and make fingers with a stack, sculpting them to the recesses in the sleeves.
We roll out the cake for the collar, create a pattern and attach it to the overall structure.
We form a small Easter egg and “hand” it into the hands of the angel.
We create the head and face absolutely symbolic. It should be appropriate and neat. Credibility fades into the background.
Hair can be created quite believable. For this we use a garlic press.
We send it to dry. Possibly for the battery. 3 hours is enough;
To emphasize the relief, the finished figurine is treated with a solution of coffee. Special attention attention should be paid to braid and places with intense ornamentation. The finished figurine can be placed as decoration on a shelf or table.

What is attractive about this craft is the absence of any strict technological rules and conventions. The recipe according to which the salt dough will be formed, crafts for Easter, their size, specificity, decor - all this can be created at your own discretion, without adhering to particularly strict technology or requirements.

stack or small knife;
comb for giving specific patterns to the dough;
rolling pin;
pen or pencil (in fact, any object with a rod);
shaped devices (for cutting cookies, for example);
any stencils where you can make prints (lace, beads, children's toys, ready-made figures of something, etc.).

You can experiment with the composition of the dough, tools, colorful materials, shades and method of processing stucco molding. Making Easter crafts from salt dough with children is great alternative computer games or mindlessly watching TV. This activity can become a great hobby for the whole family and can unite family members around you.