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 cloisters 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.

Actual jewelry

Every year more and more jewelry appears in stores on the eve of the Bright Holiday. Housewives are happy to decorate their "family nests", but there is nothing more valuable than DIY crafts. In the most ordinary element of decor, the inhabitants of the house put their special mood, a certain message and energy.

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

Craftsmen and lovers of hand-made Easter crafts made from salt dough with their own hands were especially fond of. 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 a primordially Slavic custom, evidence of which can be seen even in folk tales. Recall, for example, Kolobok, which the grandmother created, not at all thinking that the fate of this stucco molding would be so difficult. This fairy-tale hero can also be remembered in a conversation with the smallest members of the family. 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 unlimited possibilities for the realization of one's fantasies. It is difficult to imagine a more budget option for crafts. In order to acquire material for creativity, you do not need so much.

Several recipes for quality puff pastry

Recipe #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 #2:

• Wheat flour - 2 cups;
• Glue (you can use any that is on the farm) - 1.5 tablespoons;
• Salt - 3 cups;
• Water - a little less than 2 glasses.

Recipe #3:

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

What can be done from salt dough for Easter

Pleasant to the touch, supple and affordable material allows you to realize any idea. The Easter theme is 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 voluminous plot, decorate it with bright colors or leave it in a minimalist pastel. Various thematic figurines (angels, cute little animals, futuristic flowers, etc.) will decorate both the festive table and the shelf in the house. On the eve of Easter, the creation of unusual eggs with a three-dimensional pattern, coasters for traditional krashankas, and Christian symbols will be especially relevant.

Salt dough Easter crafts for kids should be themed and accessible. They allow fantasies to play out with special force. Parents can let their child come up with their own image and embody it in the test on their own. 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, 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 simplest Easter salt dough craft that does not require any skills at all is Easter eggs, which can be arranged both in the form of a long garland and each separately.

Example #1 Easter Egg Garland

We prepare salt dough, and roll it out in a large layer. Next, cut out an egg-shaped stencil from cardboard - apply it to the rolled out dough, and cut out the molds we need already from the dough. Make a hole at the top of each testicle with 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 testicles into a long garland.

Example No. 2: A simple product - a basket

You can also try to make a simple basket with testicles. Ideal for introducing children to modeling.

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

1. We take about 100 gr. dough and form the box of the future basket at our discretion.
2. To add texture to weaving, you can use an ordinary fork. The ornament will not only enliven the future product, but also give it an optimal shape;
3. From two pieces of 50 gr. roll up two thin long sausages. Approximate length 14 - 16 cm.
4. It is necessary to twist the blanks together and attach the formed handle to the basket body. Moisten the joints with water.
5. To make testicles, simply roll smooth balls of similar size.
6. It is convenient to fashion leaves and flowers from pieces of 5 by 2 cm. Texture can be applied with the blunt side of a knife or a fork, depending on the intended look of the leaves.
7. We place the eggs in the basket and add other decorative elements.
8. When attaching each structural element, it is important to moisten the surface of the dough with water for a better connection.

Example #3: An angel holding an egg

1. We first create a special stencil for the future angel.
2. Using a stencil, cut out the base of the angel. The thickness of the dough is about 5 mm. Any torn or sharp edges that form must be smoothed out with your hands.
3. To be sure of the strength of the future figurine, you can create a reinforcement effect with the help of toothpicks. To do this, just place a few toothpicks along the body of the angel, in the direction of the wings and future legs.
4. Create the legs that will peek out from the mantle. You can make fingers into a stack.
5. Now you can start decorating the wings. Wing segments are formed from separate pieces of dough and attached to the base. Patterns can be formed using a fork, a pen rod and any other accessories.
6. The hem of the mantle 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.
7. The body of an angel should also be voluminous. This effect can be achieved by using several balls of dough to create a garment for the figurine;
8. From two pieces of stucco we form sleeves. Where the palms should appear, we make a small indentation;
9. For believable brushes, we form two “drops” and make fingers with a stack, sculpt them to the recesses in the sleeves.
10. We roll out the cake for the collar, create a pattern and attach it to the overall structure.
11. We form a small Easter egg and “hand over” it to the angel in his hands.
12. We create the head and face absolutely symbolic. It should be appropriate and tidy. Reliability fade into the background.
13. Hair can be created quite believable. For this we use a garlic press.
14. We send to dry. Maybe for a battery. Enough 3 hours;
15. To emphasize the relief, the finished figure is treated with a solution of coffee. Particular attention should be paid to braid, places with intense ornamentation. The finished figurine can be placed as a decor on a shelf or on a table.

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

1. stack or small knife;
2. a comb for giving specific patterns on the dough;
3. rolling pin;
4. pen or pencil (in fact, any object with a rod);
5. figured devices (for cutting cookies, for example);
6. 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 stucco processing method. Making Easter salt dough crafts with kids is a great alternative to playing computer games or mindlessly watching TV. An activity can be a great hobby for the whole family, to rally family members around you.

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 be not only interesting, but also useful.

Here are some very interesting crafts for Easter that can be made from different materials:

Easter Dough Craft: Easter Egg Medallions

You will need:

Salty dough

Ruler

Dough cutter

shoulder blade

Tube (for small holes)

Aluminium foil

Paints (acrylic or spray)

Twine or ribbon.

1. Prepare salt dough. There are numerous ways to do this.

* If you do not want to make dough, you can replace it with polymer clay.

Here is one way to make salt dough:

2 cups of flour

1 st. a spoonful of fine salt

1 st. spoon of wallpaper paste

* 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. You can add some water if you wish. You should get a dough that sticks to your hands.

2. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin 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 molds on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil or baking paper. Make small holes with a straw so that you can hang the crafts later.

5. Bake first at a low temperature - about 100 C. After that, remove the aluminum foil and put the baking sheet back into the oven at 125 C. Try not to burn yourself. You can use parchment paper instead of foil and bake at 120 degrees for 2 hours.

After that, place the salt dough blanks on the wire rack.

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

6. Start painting your blanks, and after the paint dries, tie a ribbon and hang.

Easter crafts from pasta: a large Easter egg

You will need:

Pasta in various shapes

Felt pens (markers)

PVA glue

Paint (aerosol)

big balloon

Hot glue.

1. Inflate the balloon.

2. Mark the place for cutting on the ball with a marker.

3. Apply PVA glue to the entire ball, except for the indicated place.

4. Start gluing the pasta onto the ball to form 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. It all depends on your imagination.

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

DIY Easter crafts from pasta

You will need:

Chicken eggs

small pasta

PVA glue

Aerosol paints (if desired).

1. Dispose of the contents of the egg.

2. Apply PVA glue to the shell.

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

4. You can use lentils or peas in addition to pasta.

5. When 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 pattern yourself.

Easter chicken. Option 2.

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

3-D Chicken

For such a craft, you also need to download a chicken paper 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. Bend the corners of the resulting triangle up so that they connect with the top corner. You should get a square.

3. Twist 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 so that the staple is at the back. Straighten the ends of the workpiece in different directions, and you will get a beautiful stand for an Easter egg.

We paint eggs with do-it-yourself napkins

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

2. Place the egg on a plate or baking sheet and gently start adding drops of multi-colored food coloring.

3. When the whole 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 patterns and patterns

Scissors

PVA glue.

1. Separate the topmost layer from a paper napkin, you will not need the rest.

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

3. Prepare an egg and brush it with glue or egg white.

4. Glue the cut out pattern 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 the yellow paint with water. Dip 2 cotton pads in the solution and color them. After that, leave the discs to dry.

2. Use chenille wire to make chicken legs.

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

4. Glue all the details between two cotton pads.

5. Glue 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 plain cardboard

Scissors

simple pencil

Hot glue

1. We make 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 detail.

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. To begin, apply a little glue to the center of the first circle and glue the next one. Thus, glue all the circles.

4. Glue the piece of cardboard 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 the chicken's beak, paws and wing from colored cardboard. In order to fasten the body of the chicken, cut out a strip of cardboard and glue all the details to it - the wing on one side, and everything else on the other.

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

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

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

On the eve of the most revered and long-awaited holiday of spring, the Resurrection of Christ, Orthodox people manually, with a piece of their soul, make traditional Easter attributes. The bright tradition of creating symbolic unique Easter decorations and gifts is still alive today.

Decorations and souvenirs for Easter are traditionally associated with the main symbols of this holiday: Easter eggs, Easter eggs, Easter cakes, angels, wreaths, baskets and candles. Working on the creation of Easter attributes is a creative and exciting process. Painted and painted eggs are the main symbol of the Resurrection of the Lord. According to the Orthodox tradition, it is with them that the breaking of the fast before the festive feast begins. On this day, the Orthodox exchange colorful eggs with the wishes of good and happiness.

An original Easter egg in the form of a souvenir can be an excellent present that will remind you of its creator for many years. Spectacular eggs can easily be created from embroidery material. Foam blanks for these purposes are sold at retail outlets with goods for needlework. However, you can also make them yourself.

You can also take an empty eggshell as a basis for a souvenir, but because of its fragility, you will have to work with it very carefully. Such blanks are smeared with glue and wrapped, trying to get a certain pattern. The finished product can be decorated with beads, glass beads, buttons, rhinestones or sequins.

Even a beginner can turn foam blanks into a small masterpiece with ordinary sewing pins and sequins.

To do this, the workpiece is pre-painted. Then they stick pins with multi-colored heads into it, after putting sequins on them. This method is very simple and convenient in the sense that there is always the opportunity to correct errors in the work.

Salt dough is the perfect material for Easter souvenirs.

Salt dough can be considered an ideal raw material for creating unique crafts of the author's work. After drying, it becomes very hard and can be stored for many years. From this material, you can create original candlesticks, fancy coasters, souvenir crafts in the form of eggs, Easter cakes and extravagant wreaths decorated with leaves and flowers, echoing the festive spring mood.

To prepare salty stucco dough, you will need the following.

To prepare the stucco mass, you need to mix salt with flour and dilute with cold water. Knead the elastic dough (it is better to use a mixer), gradually introducing vegetable oil into the mixture. A well-mixed mass should be completely homogeneous. It is good to hold the finished modeling material for some time in the refrigerator, and after that it can already be used for modeling.

You can color the stucco mass even during kneading by adding food coloring, egg paint, beet or carrot juice or gouache. And you can also paint ready-made figures using the same gouache or spray paint. However, in this case, it is necessary to paint the products only after they are completely dry. You can dry crafts in two ways: in the oven (at a temperature of 800C) or on a central heating battery.

You can store the remnants of stucco material for several days in a sealed container in the refrigerator.

Volumetric and flat craft options

Modeling a voluminous egg will require a base so that the product dries faster. For this purpose, you can use an empty eggshell, a wad of foil, or a plastic inside from a kinder surprise. There is a reason to make blanks in advance so that they have time to dry well. You can also make a stand for a future souvenir in advance.

The finished salt mass must be molded over the existing base, while forming an egg. This is followed by drying, after which the desired pattern can be applied to the craft, decorated with stucco figures, beads, feathers, etc. It is advisable to varnish the finished product so that the dough does not lose its hardness over time.

But even a child can handle making a flat Easter egg. Moreover, with such crafts you can decorate not only the house inside, but also hang them in the yard. Modeling flat souvenirs will additionally require the following materials:

• rolling pin;
• a ruler for measuring the thickness of the rolled layer;
• mold or stencil;
• cocktail straw;
• parchment;
• twine or ribbon.

Roll out the dough on parchment to a thickness of 5 mm. Next, cut out the blanks of future souvenirs with a mold or stencil. Remove excess material and use cocktail tubes to make holes for the ribbon.

As a decoration on Easter eggs from salt dough, if desired, you can apply a three-dimensional pattern using a lace or guipure napkin. You can draw a pattern with a stick for modeling. Or you can mold a three-dimensional composition from the remnants of stucco material and immediately fix it on the craft. It already remains at the discretion and taste of the author of the work.

Dry the finished products and then paint with spray paint, corrector pen or brush. You can apply dry glitter over the paint. When the paint dries, varnish and wait for the final drying.

At the end of the work, thread ribbons or colored twine into the holes and hang the finished masterpieces on a homemade Easter tree, on the door, or give them to loved ones.

Salty dough

On our site you can see a lot of different crafts created on the basis of 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 that you took for the dough). Mix this mass again with a spoon, and then knead with your hands until a homogeneous consistency. Some 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 1 more cup of boiled water into this liquid while stirring. When the jelly thickens and becomes transparent, remove from heat. received a paste). From such a replacement, the dough will only benefit - it becomes more plastic.

Just don't overdo it! If the dough is too soft, knead it with a little more flour and salt mixture. Salty dough should be tight.

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

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

And our craftswomen have their own subtleties and secrets for working with salt dough. therefore , go to blog , whose work you liked and ask! I'm sure the craftsmen will be happy to share with you!

P.S. A reminder on how to make the desired color:

blue = blue + white

pink = white + red

purple=blue+pink

green = blue + yellow

orange = yellow + red

brown = green + red

emerald = green + blue

nude = light pink + slightly yellow

gold and silver will turn out if you add the appropriate color of gouache or acrylic, in the same way you can get pastry with glitter(gouache gel)

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

Testoplasty.Master class with step by step photo:Easter egg for elementary grades

Do-it-yourself Easter egg using the testoplasty technique. Master class with photo

Author: Panfilova Nadezhda Pavlovna, primary school teacher, MBOU "Razdolnenskaya school-gymnasium No. 2 named after L. Ryabiki" Republic of Crimea

Description: The master class will be of interest to leaders of additional education circles, primary school teachers, creative parents.
Purpose: Easter panel will be a good gift for the Easter holiday, interior decoration.
Target: making an Easter panel.
Tasks:
1. Learn to work with salt dough;
2. Learn to create color combinations;
3. To develop fine motor skills of hands, creative imagination, aesthetic taste;
4. Introduce the main symbol of Easter - the Easter egg;
5. To cultivate accuracy, a sense of respect for the historical traditions of the people.

The feast of the Holy Resurrection of Christ, Easter, is the main event of Orthodox Christians.
This good holiday is celebrated with great solemnity.
Everything that means renewal becomes the symbols of the Easter holiday: light is the Easter fire, life is Easter eggs, hares and Easter cakes. The Easter egg is a symbol of the spring sun, fertility and eternal life. He is credited with divine power.
In Orthodox Russia, where Easter is considered a Great holiday, it has become a tradition to give artistically decorated eggs.

Fragrant Easter cake on the table
A pile of colored eggs
On this holiday Bright, clean
You will not see gloomy faces.

Materials needed for work:
Flour;
Salt "Extra";
PVA glue";
Acrylic paint, brush;
Colored cardboard;
Frame;

Step by step process:

Salt Dough Recipe:
2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 0.5 cups water.
Mix salt and flour, add water and knead the dough.

First, roll up the foil egg.

Let's make a paper egg stencil.

Roll out the dough and cut out the shape of an egg using a paper stencil.


Gently cover the foil egg with dough. Level the surface so that the surface of the egg is smooth.
Let's leave it to dry a bit.

Let's start decorating the surface of the egg.
Easter decor is usually a riot of yellow, orange and green.
There are many ways to decorate an egg. We will try to decorate them with stucco patterns.
To do this, we blind a variety of flowers, leaves, butterflies, grass.
Let's start making flowers.
To do this, roll out a little dough into a sausage. Divide into 5 equal parts.

We form the same balls.

From the balls we form flowers.


Leave to dry.
Let's start making leaves.
We roll out a layer of dough and cut out the shape of the leaves, imitating veins.

Then from the layer of dough, cut out the grass.

To decorate the egg, take a stencil and make a butterfly out of dough.


We begin to paint the dried details of the decor of the egg with paints.




We start assembling the panel.
Glue grass, flowers, leaves and a butterfly on the egg.
You can add buttons to the design.
This is how we got the symbol of Easter.



Spring has put on decorations,
And in honor of Holy Sunday,
The whole forest is filled with the singing of birds,
Christ is risen! Christ is risen!
Spring has come with the warmth of the rays,
Kulich brought Easter,
Beautifully painted eggs
And glorified God with us!
(Alexey Kharin)