How to make salty. Ideas for simple DIY puff pastry crafts

Happy child 13.09.2017

Dear readers, many of us have children and grandchildren who love creativity. And it's wonderful. We offer children paints and pencils, markers and plasticine. And even more often, in children's development centers, kindergartens and schools, instead of plasticine, salted dough is used for modeling. Manufacturers of stationery and children's goods quickly caught this wave and put dozens of types of salt dough on store shelves. No matter how it happens! And colored, and just white, and shiny.

Of course, you can buy a ready-made set of color test. But it’s quite possible and completely easy to make it yourself, at home, because flour and salt will probably be found in the kitchen of any housewife. Today on the blog, the presenter of the column, Anna Kutyavina, has prepared for you an excellent selection of recipes for salted dough for modeling. I give the floor to Anya.

Hello, dear readers of Irina’s blog! Modeling with plastic materials is a very useful activity for kids. After all, it not only develops fine motor skills of the hands, but helps the child master spatial thinking, textures, colors and shapes. In addition, while sculpting, children often feel like real creators of something new and significant.

Modern industry offers a large selection of plasticine for modeling. But now I would like to talk about salt dough, as a good alternative to store-bought plasticine. Its main advantage is safety. Due to the fact that salt dough is made only from safe ingredients - flour, salt, water, high-quality food coloring - it is an ideal option for a child’s first creative experiments. After all, if a child puts a piece of plasticine into his mouth, it will, to put it mildly, be unhelpful for him. And if something happens, salt dough won’t do any harm.

In addition, salt dough can be quickly and easily made at home. The ingredients are very accessible and can be found in any kitchen, and the recipes are so simple that they don’t even require any significant effort. But what a wide field for creativity this is!

Benefits of salted play dough

Modeling dough is a mass similar to ordinary plasticine. But, unlike the usual hard pieces of colored plasticine, salt dough:

• much softer and more pleasant to the touch;
• does not stick to hands;
• does not stain hands and clothes;
• has no unpleasant odor;
• does not cause allergic reactions;
• safe when ingested, but at the same time tasteless - a child may try it, but immediately spit it out and lose interest in it.

Types of play dough

Creative teachers and moms and dads have come up with a lot of salt dough recipes:

• classic salt dough;
• microwaved;
• brewed over fire;
• glowing in the dark;
• with starch;
• with added glycerin, citric acid, vegetable oil, spices, baby cream and even wallpaper glue.

The structure of the resulting dough can be affected by the temperature of the water, the quality of the flour, and the number of ingredients. So if suddenly the first time it didn’t turn out quite what you expected, it doesn’t matter, try again. Many mothers share that they mix the mixture by eye, and it turns out wonderful.

Features of preparing salt dough

To make the dough successful, you need to take into account several important points. Firstly, it is better to take only regular wheat flour; other types - pancake flour, with various additives - are not suitable.

Secondly, fine salt, “Extra”, is more suitable. Large grains of salt can give crafts an untidy appearance. Although there are recipes with coarse salt.

Thirdly, it is best to use cold, even ice-cold water. To make the dough more plastic, add potato starch. And to increase the strength of the material, the recipe uses PVA glue diluted in water. To obtain a high-quality dough, you need to knead it intensively with your hands.

High-quality dough is soft, dense, elastic, it does not crumble or stick to your hands, and has a uniform color.

You can color the dough either immediately when kneading, or then color the finished craft. You can paint with either special food dyes or those created independently from cocoa, carrot or beet juice, or coffee. The dried product is then painted with gouache.

The finished material for modeling is wrapped in a bag and kept in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. The dough can be used within a month if stored in the cold.

How to make salted play dough - recipes

We will now look at the most reliable and at the same time simple dough recipes. In addition, the smaller the child, the simpler the dough should be - from complex recipes It is better to abstain from “inedible” ingredients. Let's look at salt dough recipes for beginners step by step.

Classic salty

Any crafts can be made from this material; it is safe and very simple.

Ingredients:

• white flour – 200 g;
• fine salt “Extra” – 200 g;
• chilled water – 125 ml.

You need to add salt to the flour and mix well. Then pour water into the dry mixture in small portions, stirring all the time, to eventually obtain a homogeneous and smooth mass. It is also important to monitor the consistency of the dough - it should not be very liquid.

Second classic recipe

This recipe is very popular among both experienced craftsmen and beginners in sculpting.

Ingredients:

• white flour – 300 g;
• salt – 300 g;
• cool water – 200 ml.

Take a deep bowl. Pour salt into it, add a little water. When the salt has dissolved, add the sifted flour to the mixture. Start kneading in a bowl, and when a lump forms, move the mixture to the table and finish kneading. To make the dough more flexible, gradually add water.

This number of ingredients makes a lot of dough. If you are not planning large volumes of crafts, you can reduce the amount of ingredients by 2-4 times.

Salt mass in the microwave

You can quickly make play dough in the microwave.

Ingredients:

• water – two parts water;
• rough white or Rye flour- two parts;
• fine salt - one part;
• cream of tartar - 1 tbsp. l.;
• food coloring;
• vegetable oil– 1 tbsp. l.

Mix all ingredients. Pour the resulting mixture into a microwave-safe dish. Keep in the oven at medium power for five minutes. When the mass has cooled, it must be thoroughly kneaded.

Salt dough in 5 minutes

The dough for this recipe is well suited for those who like to sculpt a lot, often, and with the whole family.

Ingredients:

• water – 1 cup;
• flour – 1 cup;
• salt – 0.3 cups;
• soda – 2 tsp;
• vegetable oil – 1 tsp;
• food coloring.

Pour soda, salt and flour into a container, pour in water and vegetable oil. Then place the pan on low heat and heat for a few minutes.

Add coloring and mix well. As soon as the dough starts to stick to the spoon, turn it off, it is ready. Place it on a plate and let cool. Then knead well with your hands.

This quick dough It is famous for one more feature - if you follow the storage rules, keep it in the refrigerator, the mixture retains its properties for several months.

Elastic dough

This recipe produces a very elastic material that is easy to work with.

Ingredients:

• wheat flour – 1.5 cups;
• water – 1.5 cups;
• salt – 2 cups.

Mix the dry ingredients and add water little by little until the mixture becomes plastic and homogeneous. Crafts made from such dough will be durable and aesthetically pleasing.

Coarse salt dough

There will be quite a lot of this material, so if you need a small portion, you should reduce the volume of the components several times. The composition is the same as classic test, only use coarse salt instead of fine salt.

Ingredients:

• coarse salt – 300 g;
• wheat flour – 300 g;
• water – 200 ml (1 glass).

Pour out the salt and pour most of the water into a large container. When the salt has dissolved, sifted flour is poured into the liquid in portions. The dough is kneaded.

Salt dough glowing in the dark

Children will definitely love this dough!

Ingredients:

• warm water – 2 glasses;
• white flour – 2 cups;
• salt – 2/3 cup;
• vitamin B in capsules or tablets – 2 pcs.;
• vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
• cream of tartar - 4 tsp.

Grind the vitamins to a powder. Mix it with salt, flour and cream of tartar. Add water and oil, stir until smooth.

Cook over low heat until the mixture becomes sticky and resembles plasticine.

Recipe for three-dimensional figures

This dough makes the figures durable and strong.

Ingredients:

• white flour – 200 g;
• salt – 400 g;
• ice water - 1.5 cups.

Dissolve salt in water. Add sifted flour little by little. Knead the dough.

Dough with glue (not for small children!)

This recipe is not entirely natural, but it helps the mixture set and dry faster.

Ingredients:

• flour – 1.5 cups;
• water – 1.5 cups;
• salt – 1 glass;
• glycerin – 4 tbsp. l.;
• dry wallpaper glue or PVA – 2 tbsp. l.

Mix everything except the glue, knead the dough as for dumplings. Add glue previously diluted in a small amount of water. Stir the resulting mass well.

More tips on easy preparation salt dough can be found in this video.

Drying salt dough at home

The prepared figures need to be dried thoroughly. This can be done outdoors, outdoors, or indoors where fresh air circulates. This drying option is the most economical.

It is best to dry crafts in the sun. The thicker the product, the longer it will take to dry. The color of the craft will not change after hardening.

The second drying option is the oven. The products are dried in the fresh air for a couple of days, then the oven is heated to 50˚C. It is necessary to cover a baking sheet with paper, lay out the crafts and dry, increasing the temperature to a maximum of 140˚C. At 50 ˚С drying lasts approximately 3 hours, at 140 – half an hour. But you shouldn’t immediately set the maximum temperature - the products may crack.

If the figures are cracked, you can fix it using a mixture of PVA glue and regular flour, filling the cracks with a thin brush.

To understand whether the product has dried, you just need to knock on it. A dull sound indicates that the figurine is still raw, and a ringing sound indicates that it is already ready.

How to design crafts

The finished figures are painted. It is better to take acrylic ones - they do not stain the skin, do not smear and dry quickly. You can paint with gouache mixed with PVA glue, and even with watercolors. Or you can simply leave the products in their original form.

When sculpting, you can use various decorative elements: beads, buttons, threads, ribbons, small shells, cereals and pasta. If the product is cracked after painting, you can dry it in the fresh air, then remove the imperfections with sandpaper and paint it again.

Varnishing can protect the craft from defects. This measure will also prevent paint fading and preserve the aesthetics of things for a long time. Liquid varnish will make the craft rosy and give it a natural shine. Thick will reliably protect against moisture and make the surface of the product matte or shiny. Aerosol varnish protects the surface from damage and makes it brighter.

Crafts made from salt dough

Now I invite you to see what crafts you can do with your children. Anya Pavlovskikh sent us photographs of such crafts. Her five-year-old daughter Svetlana, under the guidance of teacher Tatyana Viktorovna Semenov (MBDOU kindergarten No. 32, Izhevsk), made this beauty from salt dough.

Choose the recipe that suits you best, try and create with your children. After all, childhood is a wonderful time when any manifestation of imagination becomes a masterpiece! So let creativity be not only fun, but also safe!

Happy creativity to you and your children!


 Anna Kutyavina,
psychologist, storyteller,
owner of the site Fairy Tale World

I thank Anya for such a creative topic for everyone. Agree, sometimes you start doing something with children and you also get so carried away. So not only our children enjoy such activities, but we ourselves can take a break from routine, immerse ourselves in creativity, and relax our souls. And, of course, this is such a wonderful reason to be with your children and communicate with them.

Good afternoon, today we have finally completed a large selection of ideas for New Year's crafts made from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. Here you will find Christmas tree decorations made from dough, pendants, decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters made from dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other children's crafts made from dough, suitable for activities in the garden or school. I promise that today you will fall in love with this world of wonderful salt crafts and will want to make your own miracle from salt dough with your own hands. New Year.

So let's get started. Let's start with the recipe.

SALT DOUGH RECIPE

For New Year's crafts.

• Flour (wheat or rye) – 1 cup. Salted rye dough holds its shape better.
• Salt (finely ground, such as “Extra”) – 1 cup
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (so as not to stick to your hands), or 1 tbsp. hand cream
• PVA glue 2 tablespoons - optional, you can do without it.
• Water - how much the dough will take. Add gradually, kneading the dough into a tight, plastic lump.

First, mix the dry ingredients - salt, flour.

Add 1 tablespoon and rub with your hands. Add a spoonful again and grind. We continue to add and knead with our own hands. As soon as we have an elastic lump in our hands, our dough is ready.

Store the finished dough tightly wrapped in cling film and placed on a shelf in the refrigerator.

PAINTING RULES

Method 1 - paint the dough itself. You can color the dough with food coloring or salt coloring. easter eggs. COLORS are also suitable - jars of dyes from a hardware store; they are used to tint white wall paint to the desired color. They are cheap and rich in color.

Method 2 - paint the craft. Crafts can be made from unpainted dough and then painted on top with gouache and fixed with hairspray from a can.

RULES OF STYLE.

We attach large parts of the craft to each other with a match or toothpick. We glue the chalk parts with water, that is, we wet the parts with water and apply them to each other.

As you sculpt the craft, keep a bowl of water nearby to wet your hands or the dough itself to prevent it from drying out. In the open air, the dough dries quickly and loses its elasticity.

RULES FOR DRYING CRAFTS.

Can be dried outdoors, on a radiator, in the oven (130-140 degrees).

Flat dough shapes.

(New Year's crafts and toys for the Christmas tree).

The simplest version of a dough craft is a flat silhouette covered with paint, with or without a pattern. Roll out the dough into an even layer, cut out shapes, and dry. If you like ideal shapes, then I suggest you sand the dried part with sandpaper (sandpaper), sold in a hardware store for pennies. This way you will get a perfectly smooth surface of the craft.

We cover the salt dough figurine with paint of a background color (gouache, acrylic, even construction acrylic works great). Let's dry it. Against this background we draw multi-colored patterns. Let's dry it. Seal with hairspray (or acrylic varnish).

Here's a great idea for a children's craft made from salt dough for the New Year - a Bullfinch bird made from the outline of a child's palm. Place your palm on the cardboard, trace it with a pencil, and cut it out. We place a cardboard palm on the rolled out dough, cut it with a knife... or scratch it with a knife and cut it out with scissors, carefully lifting the layer of dough above the table without stretching it.

And now I want to tell several important tricks, secrets and nuances, which will help you immediately achieve a good, bright result in your work on New Year’s dough crafts.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE clear contours of a pattern on salt dough.

First, we draw the details with a pencil on the already dried dough (we make a sketch), if the sketch is successful, then we draw it with a black felt-tip pen (so that it becomes visible).

We paint all the details of the drawing with gouache, like a contour painting, without being afraid to climb onto the black edge of the outline. Drying the paint.

And then we go over all the edges with a black bold marker. This way the outlines of the drawing will become clearer (see the photo below, where the windows and doors of the salt dough houses are drawn exactly like this)

THE SECRET of choosing colors for coloring dough crafts.

If you do not draw the boundaries of the details with a black stroke, then you must follow the RULE OF CONTRAST - that is, select paints where the colors themselves stand out against each other.

The dough star craft with a penguin in the photo below is very indicative - White paint looks bright in contrast with black, and red paint is brighter when next to black and white.

But in the right photo below (with a butterfly made of salt dough) this rule is no longer observed. AND pink flowers they look pale and expressionless against the orange background of the craft.

But the blue flower (on crafts even lower in the shape of a star) is already bright - because blue and orange are CONTRASTING to each other.

You can make a pattern crafts from similar colors of the palette(white, blue, dark blue - as on the mitten in the photo below), but then you need to achieve a difference in their saturation - the blue one should be lighter, and the blue one should be richer and darker - so that there is no color fading.

It’s better to choose contrasting rich colors (red + white + green) - as was done for the craft in the right photo below - with New Year’s feet made of salt dough. A beautiful and simple New Year's craft made from salt dough for children at school or senior group kindergarten. We cut out the leaves using molds or scissors from salt dough. All painting of the craft is done with gouache.

How to paint with an embossed pattern.

You can apply a colorful design to the salt dough, enriching the decor pressed relief (as in the photo with the New Year's dough craft below). There we first make indentations with a stamp - round berries (squeeze out with a pencil and wash) and leaves (made with a stamp cut from a piece of raw potato).

After pressing the relief design, we apply paint inside the relief, giving the entire craft beautiful retro style.

How to color the salt dough itself.

First we make regular salt dough. Dough natural color. Then, at the bottom of the glass, add food coloring powder in a couple of drops of water. And add this mixture to a small piece of dough. Knead evenly with your hands (your hands will also be colored, it’s okay, everything will wash off). We get a colored lump of dough - from it we make colored elements to decorate the dough craft (such as these buttons on the mittens below).

You can use food or salt Easter coloring. In powder or immediately liquid (then it does not need to be soaked in water). As a result, we get colored material for sculpting bright details that can be used to decorate a flat dough craft.

Depending on the amount of dye, you will get a bright, juicy color (like the carrot on the nose of the dough snowman) or a pale pastel shade (like the salt dough owl in the right photo). As you can see, it’s easy to do everything yourself. Even children will be happy to help mix the dye - they are fascinated by the process of color spreading to all parts of the dough ball.

Graphic SECTOR painting

dough crafts.

With the help of the usual drawing ruler you can make RELIEF GRAPHICS - divide the plane of the salted figurine into clear sectors (as was done for the heart-shaped crafts in the photo below) and paint each sector with its own color. A beautiful and bright DIY New Year's craft made from salt dough that looks like a factory stamp. Nicely done.

In the same way you can extrude sectors WITH SMOOTH BORDERS(not in a straight line, but in a curved one). To do this, we take a sheet of thick cardboard, place it on its edge, slightly bending it, and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth groove line (as done on Christmas tree toys from the test in the photo below).

We make round grooves in the form of a ring using caps from medicine bottles, caps of felt-tip pens and other things.

We immediately whiten the grooves with white gouache and let them dry. And on top we apply bright layers of paint.

We fix the craft with layers of hairspray, the usual one from a cheap can (or coat it with acrylic varnish from a stationery store with a soft brush).

After varnish coating, the color becomes brighter by 2-3 tones.

The varnish coating (especially in several layers) makes the craft sparkle as if it were made of ceramics with ceramic glaze.

Pay attention to the craft of mittens made from salt dough - ideal for kindergarten. We make the mittens ourselves - and give the children the opportunity to use a ruler to divide the sectors into strips and paint the stripes with different colors of gouache. Simple and terribly interesting for all kids in kindergarten and even big guys from school. An apple craft made from salted dough is also a godsend for kindergarten classes - make a relief with a ruler on a piece of paper, and work with gouache for your own pleasure and with your own hands.

Crafts from dough for the New Year

with rhinestones and sequins.

You can decorate salted dough crafts with various decorative elements from a sewing accessories store. Rhinestones, sequins, sparkles, buttons, beads, beads - all this can add New Year's sparkle to your craft.

Decoupage technique

On crafts made from salt dough.

Flat dough silhouettes can be an excellent background for printing a picture from paper napkins. The technique is called decoupage. And you don’t need anything special for it, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and a napkin with a pattern and hairspray for finishing.

We take the already dried silhouette from salt dough. If necessary, sand it with sandpaper so that the surface becomes smooth and even (although this is not necessary).

Apply a layer of PVA glue to the surface of the dough piece. We separate the thin top paper layer from the napkin with the pattern and place it on top of the glue, carefully straightening the delicate paper, not allowing it to form wrinkles or creases.

It is not necessary to fill the entire surface of the salty craft with a napkin pattern. You can place the napkin pattern on only one side of the dough silhouette (as is done on New Year's crafts - hearts made from salt dough). Before work, it is better to sand the dried hard surface of the parts with regular sandpaper and cover it with white (gouache or acrylic) - this way we will get the ideal “canvas” for our elegant art of decoupage.

Salt Dough Tools

(knives and scissors for decorating crafts)

In the photo below we see how interesting it is to use a knife and ordinary scissors when making crafts from salt dough. The point of a knife creates a triangular depressed silhouette, and scissors can be used to cut the dough into protruding sharp pieces of the same shape.

This technique with scissors comes in handy when you need to create feathers on bird crafts made from salt dough. Current craft for the New Year of the Rooster.

Salt dough weaving

For the New Year.

Here is an example of how you can make it yourself made from salt dough KNITTED HEART. First, we sculpt long sausage ropes from the dough with our hands.

Then we bend the long sausage in half and twist it into a HARNESS-SPIRAL.

We lay 2 twisted strands next to each other - sideways to the barrel - choosing their arrangement so that the turns of each adjacent strand face in the opposite direction. That is, one harness with a diagonal turn down left, and the other harness with a diagonal turn down right. Thus, 2 strands laid side by side form the illusion of ONE BRAID.

If we place several such braids side by side (each consisting of two strands), then we get CLOTH, similar to the relief of a knitted pattern.

All that remains is to squeeze out the silhouette of a heart from this canvas (with a regular cookie cutter). And place this knitted layer on top of another regular flat dough heart.

You can make an ordinary braid (from three sausages) from salt dough, put it in a ring and decorate the craft as a Christmas wreath. Form pink petals from round cakes of dough and place them in a rose. Leave the leaves with veins pressed out with the edge of a knife.

Braided dough crafts can be decorated with silhouettes cut out with cookie cutters, such as stars. Below we see a master class on carefully painting dough crafts

After drying, we cover each element with thick gouache, choosing a painting design to suit your taste. You can add glitter elements and beaded sprinkles.

Dough crafts

With relief patterns.

(embossing method).

Here is a decorative method for crafts made from salt dough that all children really like. They are delighted with the openwork pattern that, as if by magic, appears on the salt dough.

The easiest way to make a pattern on salt dough with your own hands is to use button prints. We take large buttons without holes - using double-sided tape we stick them onto ordinary wine corks - and we get convenient stamps that you can hold in your hands. We give the children stamps and they poke them into the rolled out dough. Next, we cut out the silhouettes of Christmas trees with cookie cutters - and we get a craft in the form of a Christmas tree, with New Year's balls.

Look beautiful prints of large metal buttons with a relief convex pattern - antique.

You can use grandma's in the same way. brooches, buttons with an eagle or a horse on dad’s jeans, grandfather’s royal coins (hee hee), embossed caps from mom’s perfume, beer caps, the bottoms of Aunt Sima’s crystal glasses and other interesting round stamps.

But this pattern on the salt dough Christmas tree craft is made using thick cardboard (or a rubber mat), which is rolled into a tube to form a curl at the end of the jacket. And this curl was applied to the salted dough rolled out on the table. The result was simple and beautiful. An excellent children's craft for a competition at school or kindergarten.

The bottom and sides of the decanter and other crystal flasks are an excellent store of patterns for crafts made from salt dough for the New Year.

You can also use RELIEF TEXTILES - napkins, tablecloths, and curtains with fringe. You can buy lace with a relief pattern in the store, or look for its elements in a drawer with beautiful lingerie.

Just place the openwork on the rolled out dough. And we roll over it with the same stick-rolling pin. If you don’t have a rolling pin in your house (you’re such a housewife, what can you do) then you can replace it with a smooth glass bottle or a can of hairspray.

A very beautiful and clear relief is left by RUBBER NAPKINS (as in the photo below). The fashion for them went back to Soviet times - but for New Year's crafts You can buy a couple of elegant polyethylene napkins with your own hands.

Here are the patterned things you can make from plastic Chinese napkins.

How to do it right

paint a dough craft

WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.

We want the painting of the embossed patterned dough craft to be bright. So that the paint does not blur the pattern, but only emphasizes and highlights it. To make the pattern darker inside and lighter on top - how to do this?

Here’s how: first, paint the entire craft one color with a brush; use the brush to get into all the recesses of the pattern. Let it dry until the paint is completely dry.

And then we take paint 1-2 shades lighter (or a different color altogether) and work not with a brush, but with a foam sponge or makeup sponge.

We smear this second paint on a plate, blot it with a sponge and carefully make an imprint of the sponge on the surface of our pattern - SO that the sponge does not press into the grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get uniform coloring of the entire craft.

Thus, we will color the pattern with a textured highlight of it into 2 color tones - on top and inside the relief.

And here (in the photo below) is another original-colored and original-pressed craft made from salt dough. As far as I understand, this relief on the star craft was made with help bags a la snake or crocodile skin. The surface of the bag was applied to the dough. All this was drying. And then they painted with a brush and sponge in several shading passes. Please note that not all places were painted with a blue brush; somewhere there was a brush with white paint. And then everything was powdered on top with soft white paint using a foam sponge.

You can also not look for any stamps for patterns - but make the pattern yourself - with ordinary sticks, pencils, cocktail straws. Just first, with the point of a pencil, outline the lines of the future pattern - draw faint stripes of future flower petals. And then make pinhole punctures along the marked lines. If we take sticks of different thicknesses, we will get different points, this will give the composition additional artistic variability.

And nature itself can give us its stamps to imprint the New Year's mood on dough crafts. Branches of evergreen fir, imprints of cones and dry, stringy leaves. Even at home in a flower pot you can find a source of beautiful floral patterns.

Puff pastry crafts

with your own hands for the New Year.

Look at the layered beauty you can make with your own hands. How beautiful DOUBLE-LAYER CRAFTS made from salt dough look. The bottom base layer is made without a pattern, in a single color. We dry this layer thoroughly, then sand its surface with sandpaper (or pumice for heels, this is also good). We cover the sanded base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform coloring (you can use a foam sponge rather than a brush or spray paint from a spray can).

The top patterned layer of the craft is made from salted dough with a relief imprint. By the way, you can make very beautiful prints using antique tin trays with relief engraving on metal. Your grandmother or elderly neighbor may have just such a tray. Your neighbor will let you use it for a chocolate bar if you clearly explain to the alarmed old lady that in 5 minutes you will return the valuable rarity to the owner. If she doesn’t trust you, invite her to your kitchen-workshop, let her see how her tray helps create a New Year’s miracle.

And here is a children's craft for the New Year - in the form of bird pendants for the Christmas tree. Here the relief is applied to the upper layers - wings and breast. First cut out the body of the bird from the dough. Then the breast and wings.

First we make a relief imprint USING WIRE. Yes, ordinary wire on a flat table is twisted in different winding directions, forming a flat pattern of twisted paths.

Then this wire is placed on the rolled out salt dough and pressed into its pulp with a rolling pin.

Two-layer children's crafts made from salt dough for the New Year must definitely contain a New Year's theme in their decor. These are snowflakes (cut out of dough), these are red berries and holly leaves. You can also make ribbons from dough or take real satin ones.

You can and should decorate multilayer crafts with beads. Beads can be placed on glue, or you can also string a bead onto a wire, twist the ends of the wire together, pierce the dough piece and spread the ends apart (spread apart). This type of wire fastening of beads is used in the craft in the photo below.

Here we see an example of a craft made from salt dough IN SEVERAL LAYERS. You will learn exactly how to make this New Year's flower from salt dough with your own hands if you read the article on our website. It shows the principle of creating puff flowers from paper, and exactly the same principle allows you to make the same flowers from dough. The rolled out dough is cut in the same way as paper, with scissors, and it is also convenient to place it in puff tiered flowers for the New Year.

The flower petal layers can be glued together after drying - using hot thermal glue from a gun. Or at batter. Check in advance how this or that method works.

But (in the photo below) we see a two-layer craft made from salt dough, to which volume has been added. Very interesting work. And in fact, making such a decoration for the Christmas tree with your own hands is not difficult.

Look, first we roll out the dough, then use a glass to cut out 2 rounds from it. In him

We find 2 Christmas balls of a suitable size. And we place our round pieces on the rounded belly of the Christmas ball. And we dry our workpiece like this right on the ball - so that it dries in the shape of a hemisphere (bowl). Next, remove the two dry hemispheres from the Christmas ball and connect them together.

The most difficult thing is to make sure that the edges of the hemispheres dock with each other (for this it is necessary that each round piece, when placed on a Christmas tree ball, takes up EXACTLY HALF of this ball), and does not go beyond the equator line, so to speak.

You can make any pattern of curls of salt dough on the surface of the round ball. How this one was done in the photo below. We place plastic film (non-fiber, food grade) on the ball, and add the elements of the pattern onto it. Dry on a ball. Then carefully remove and separate the cling film with your hands.

Liquid pattern

On crafts of salt dough.

In the photo below we see snow-white crafts made from polished salted dough, with an openwork pattern applied to it. Such a delicate, almost lace bas-relief can be made using the “liquid pattern” technique. We dilute the liquid salt dough and apply it with a pastry syringe or an envelope (a bag with a cut corner) - along the lines of the intended pattern.

First, let's sand the canvas - a dry, flat piece of salt dough. Then we draw the lines of the future drawing on it with a pencil, chalk, or felt-tip pen. And we begin to slowly apply a thick pattern.

By the way, the same work can be done with gypsum diluted with water (gypsum plaster is suitable).

Try it on a sample first to see how you work best with plaster or batter. How it dries, cracks when dried, or holds its shape. Try making samples with different degrees of liquid (from very thick to thin).

So, with your own hands and your brains, you can come up with and further experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough. Try it. Create. Be mischievous. Play some pranks.

You can add dye to the batter (food grade, or color jars that are sold in hardware stores for diluting them in white paint). Crafts with such a liquid pattern can be made by imitating New Year's cookies, and sprinkle them with grains of coarse salt, imitating sprinkles of sugar.

Crafts made from salt dough

WITH HOLES.

You can make shaped holes on pendants for toys made from salt dough. In the form of stars, hearts, just round holes.

Or you can squeeze out a whole openwork pattern from molds of different configurations.

By the way, this is how you can make an openwork snowflake from salt dough. In the photo below we see an abbreviated master class - it immediately becomes clear how easy it really is to make such New Year’s beauty with your own hands.

You can pour THERMO-MOSAIC into the holes in the raw dough, which melts in the oven. And when baked, it will spread into a colored lake inside the hole in the craft.

Instead of a mosaic, you can pour regular COLORED COLOR CANDIES - that is, candies. They will also melt and fill the hole. It will turn out to be a beautiful DIY craft, but the children won’t lick it off with their tongues.

New Year characters

from salt dough.

You can make various New Year and winter characters from the dough. For example, a snowman or penguins.

You can make dough regular forms, and then use paint to make them resemble the desired character.

Details can be drawn with a thin stroke with black gouache, or a black thick marker.

Complex STEP-BY-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. It requires painstakingness and perseverance to complete all the work detail by detail and dry everything thoroughly before painting.

Curly FLAT silhouettes can also be designed in the form of New Year's characters. Salt dough snowman - based on the silhouette of a STAR.

The simplest forms are combined and a new New Year's craft made from salt dough in the form of a SAND MAN is obtained.

To make the craft effective and voluminous, you can also use dough to make a SUPPORT for it. That is, the background, for example, is in the form of a lush bow, like in the teddy bear craft from the photo below.

The rolled out salt dough is cut into strips - they form a lush bow. Place the teddy bear craft on top of the bow and dry it all together. Then we paint, using a brush to get into all the hard-to-reach places.

And here is an ANGEL craft made from salt dough, where our technique of relief imprinting is used - on the wings and on the tunic.

You can come up with your own design for New Year's crafts made from salt dough. In any case, your character will be recognizable after you paint everything with gouache.

Santa Claus from salt dough is also made easily and in a variety of ways (as you already saw in the photo above. The beard can be made round, branched, curly, or flat and cut along the edge with scissors (as in the photo below)

You can simply make the head of Santa Claus - with a star-shaped backing, as in the photo below.

These are the ideas for crafts made from salt dough for the New Year that you found today on our website. We have many other collections with beautiful New Year's works for children of all ages. Make your New Year's happiness with your own hands and let crafts made from salt dough give you sweet pleasure from the result of your work.

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The benefits and advantages of salt dough in the arsenal of a passionate mother are difficult to overestimate. First of all, it is environmentally friendly. The dough consists of natural ingredients, so accidentally getting it into the baby’s mouth will not cause unnecessary worries for the mother.

The ease of production and availability of ingredients make salt dough universal with a child and the development of fine motor skills. And what is important is that you get quite a lot of dough, and there is no need to divide it into small pieces (if you are sculpting together), as is the case with plasticine from a pack.

Dough recipe and dyes

There are many variety of recipes salt dough. They are mainly divided into two types:

• With heat treatment;
• No heat treatment.

• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 0.5 tbsp. fine salt “Extra”;
• 1 tbsp. starch;
• 0.5 tbsp. cold water (from the refrigerator).

First, all the solid ingredients are mixed, then water is added in portions and the dough is kneaded. The finished salt dough does not stick to your hands.

The modeling mass can be left in its natural color or dye can be added during the kneading process. If you want to make the salt dough multi-colored, then divide ready dough into several parts, add the required dye and knead well again (we used the last option).

Dyes you can use:

• food (for coloring Easter eggs);
• natural (coffee or cocoa give different shades of brown, paprika - orange, spirulina (dietary supplement, sold in pharmacies) - green, turmeric - yellow).

The dough turned out soft and elastic. This composition is suitable for sculpting flat and semi-volume figures (for example, the elephant that we sculpted began to “blur” after 10 minutes, and the hedgehog remarkably retained its shape). The downside is that after modeling, powder from flour and salt remains on your hands, unlike hot-prepared dough.

Materials and accessories

Of course, you can get by with just salted dough and make it great with your baby. However, the following materials will help you significantly diversify your activities.

For shaping can be used:

• Cookie cutters;
• Easter eggs from the sandbox (after washing them);
• Lids of different diameters;
• Self-made stencils from cardboard (prepare stencils of parts of the design according to the principle of then applying them to the rolled out dough and cutting along the contour with a children's knife or a stack).

For giving relief and creating all kinds of prints will be useful:

• Paper and textile lace;
• Caps for felt-tip pens;
• Drill (preferably not a new one with a blunt end);
• Fork;
• Cocktail tube (convenient for making holes in pendants or openwork pendants);
• Sticks of different diameters;
• Relief plants (juniper, maple leaves);
• Seashells.

For decorations crafts suitable:

• Pasta different forms;
• Cereals (beans, peas, chickpeas);
• Plant seeds (watermelon, sunflower, pumpkin);
• Seasonings (black pepper, cloves);
• Buttons and beads.

In addition, for crafts you will need: a rolling pin, a garlic press and manicure scissors.

Salt dough craft ideas for kids

Now let's see what you can do with your child using the above materials.

Palm print

Many parents make a plaster cast or hand/foot print of the baby as a souvenir when their child is one year old. The same can be done with salt dough.

Roll out a layer 1-1.5 cm thick, use a small bowl to cut out a circle of suitable diameter, attach the baby’s hand and help press it well into the dough.

On the side we make an inscription: the date or age of the baby and send it to dry.

Do you want to play with your child easily and with pleasure?

Pendants and pendants

Roll out the dough and squeeze out a circle of suitable diameter. Together with the child, we fill the circle with various materials for decoration.

Another option: we make all kinds of prints on the rolled out surface, and then cut out the area we like using cookie cutters.

When all the preliminary work is completed, we use a cocktail tube to form a hole for hanging and dry it.

To make an openwork pendant, carefully poke holes in the dough with a cocktail tube, turning it slightly at the end so that the dough remains in the tube.

Owl

A simple craft that a child aged 3 years and older can do. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5-1 cm and cut out a circle. In the lower part, using a felt-tip pen cap, we make semicircles - the plumage of an owl. Next, we bend two semicircles towards the center - these are the wings and bend a small semicircle on top - the owl's head. We make the eyes by pressing the closed part of the cap onto the corresponding places and using the stack we form the owl’s mouth. Use your fingers to adjust the small ears where the semicircles overlap. The owl is ready!

Hedgehog

For this craft we will need nail scissors and black pepper for the eyes. We roll the ball, after which we slightly stretch one of its sides, forming the face of a hedgehog. Using nail scissors, we make triangular cuts across the entire surface of the future “coat”, at the end slightly lifting the dough up - these are hedgehog needles. We use black pepper to make the eyes and nose of the hedgehog. Our forest animal is ready!

Caterpillar and snail

These are crafts for the little ones. For the snail, roll out two sausages: one long and narrow, the other short but thick. We roll the narrow one into a spiral, forming a snail’s house and place it on a thick base. We make the eyes from black pepper, and the horns from small sausages.

For the caterpillar we roll a thick sausage and several balls. Place the balls on the sausage, pressing them with a stick or the back of a brush. With the same stick we press on the side surfaces of the caterpillar and insert eyes - peas.

And finally, inspiration for indecisive mothers who put off salt dough modeling due to doubts about their... Even if the result of your joint creativity is such an animal/bird of an unknown breed as in the photo below, the child will be happy and will show off his product to everyone.

The dots on the head and grooves on the tail are made using a fork. Small balls are secured with a round stick, and large ones are fixed with pressed beans.

Drying products and painting them

If your child does not want to immediately disassemble the craft, and you decide to keep it, then you can dry products made from salt dough in two ways:

1. Natural drying . The craft is left in room conditions, and it dries on its own at a rate of 1 mm per day.
2. Oven drying. They try to sculpt such crafts on foil so that the product does not become deformed when transferred. In addition, only natural materials should be used (no buttons, beads, etc.). The craft is placed in the oven for 1 hour at a temperature of 50 degrees. If the craft is voluminous, then alternate periods of drying in the oven and in natural conditions.

If you initially sculpted from unpainted dough, and then wanted to paint the craft, then you can do this only after it has completely dried, otherwise the paint will crack.

You will learn how to make a basket with mushrooms from this video:

Have you tried sculpting with salt dough? Tell us in the comments?

Modeling has a beneficial effect on the child, his creative imagination, thinking abilities, develops fine motor skills and gives a wonderful mood. In this article we have prepared a selection of simple crafts from salt dough especially for children.

You will need: cup wheat flour, a glass of extra salt, half a glass of cold water, a bowl.

Recipe

Ready salty dough should not stick to your hands or crumble. It should be cool and easy to sculpt. I recommend watching the video master class!

There are two most common ways to dry salt dough. The first method: the finished craft will dry on its own. The main thing is that it should not be exposed to direct sunlight, otherwise it will crack. The craft can be placed on a flat surface and wait a few days. Second method: dry the finished craft in the oven for 3 to 6 hours (depending on the size of the craft). Drying occurs in batches with breaks. One approach is 1-2 hours. For quick drying in one go, set the oven to 75-100 degrees, and then the craft will dry in an hour. At a temperature of 120 degrees, the craft will dry in 30 minutes, but it is better to dry it naturally.

There are two most common ways to color salt dough. The first method: after drying, paint the finished craft with acrylic paints or gouache using a brush. Second method: food coloring is diluted in water, then added while preparing the dough. When the craft is completely painted and dried, it must be coated with transparent manicure or furniture varnish in 2-3 layers. Each layer must dry before applying the next. This way the craft will be preserved

You will need: salted dough, rolling pin, cookie cutters, stars, hearts, etc..., cocktail tube, thread or rope for hanging, acrylic paints or gouache, brush, clear manicure polish.

Master Class

The salt dough figures are ready!

You will need: salt dough, gouache, brush, foil, water, permanent marker, clear manicure polish.

Master Class

1. Mold the sheep's feet into 4 balls.
2. Make a ball of foil, then roll it in the dough so that it is inside. This will be the body of a sheep.
3. Attach the body over the legs using water.
4. Make the head, ears, eyes and horn curls. Attach with water.
5. Roll small flat balls and attach them as wool using water.
6. Dry the craft.
7. Paint the sheep with paints and wait until it dries completely.
8. Draw eyes, eyelashes and outline the contours of the curls with a marker.
9. Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries completely.

The salt dough lamb is ready!

You will need: salt dough, rolling pin, stack, toothpick, paints, brush, glitter, clear manicure polish, cocktail tube, thread for further hanging.

Master Class

1. Roll out the dough into a thin layer using a rolling pin.
2. Draw a house on the dough, then cut out with a stack.
3. Make dots along the contour of the house, window, chimney with a toothpick.
4. Make a hole for further hanging with a cocktail tube.
5. Dry the craft.
6. Paint the house, decorate with glitter and wait until it dries completely.
7. Attach thread for further hanging.

The salt dough house is ready!

Salt dough owl

You will need: salt dough, felt-tip pen cap, stack, paints, brush, clear manicure polish.

Master Class

1. Roll the dough into a ball.
2. Press it down to make a flat circle.
3. Make feathering by pressing with the cap.
4. Fold the sides of the circle towards the center.
5. Fold the upper part of the circle into the center and form ears.
6. Make the owl's eyes by pressing with the cap of a felt-tip pen.
7. Dry the craft.
8. Paint the owl and wait until it dries completely.
9. Cover the craft with varnish.

You will need: colored salt dough, cookie cutters, cocktail straw, rolling pin, glass, water, clear nail polish.

Master Class

The salt dough figure frame is ready!

Salt dough bear

You will need: salt dough, stack, pva glue, black and pink paint, brush, clear manicure polish.

Master Class

1. Blind the eyes and nose, paint them black and set aside to dry.
2. Make 2 flat circles for the paws, paint them pink and set aside to dry.
3. Make an oval shaped body of the bear.
4. Roll into a ball for the head.
5. Glue the head to the body.
6. Make a flat ball, draw a smile with a stack and glue it to the face.
7. Blind the paws, then glue them and draw the fingers in a stack.
8. Roll the ball and glue it in place of the tail.
9. Glue on the eyes and nose.
10. Glue pink circles onto the bear's back legs.
11. Dry the craft.
12. Cover the craft with varnish.

The salt dough bear is ready!

You will need: salt dough, glass, acrylic paints, glitter, brush, ribbon for hanging, cocktail tube, dog's paw for imprinting on the dough or your fingers, transparent glue, rolling pin.

Master Class

You will need: colored salt dough, stack, clear manicure polish, toothpick.

Master Class

The salt dough star is ready!

Salt dough caterpillar

You will need: colored dough, knife, pva glue, toothpick, pendant, clear manicure polish.

Master Class

1. Roll out the sausage.
2. Cut it into 6 equal parts.
3. Roll into balls.
4. Glue 5 balls together.
5. Glue the head.
6. Make a nose and eyes, then glue them on.
7. Poke a toothpick into the hanging area.
8. Dry the craft.
9. Apply varnish and wait until completely dry.
10. Attach the pendant.

The salt dough caterpillar is ready!

Salt dough apple

You will need:

Master Class

1. Make half an apple, make the inside flat, pressing it onto a flat surface.
2. Make a thin flat center and glue it to the main part.
3. Roll 6 seeds and a stick, then glue to the apple.
4. Blind the leaves, then glue them.
5. Dry the craft.
6. Apply varnish and wait until completely dry.

The salted dough apple is ready!

Salt dough elephant

You will need: colored salt dough, pva glue, clear manicure polish.

Master Class

1. Make the elephant's body by rolling an elongated ball.
2. Make 4 legs in the shape of plump sausages.
3. Make a proboscis.
4. Make the elephant's ears in this way: roll out 2 flat cakes, glue flat cakes of the same shape of a smaller size and a different color to them.
5. Make a small ponytail.
6. Blind your eyes.
7. Assemble the elephant in the following sequence: glue the legs to the body, then glue the proboscis, then the ears, eyes and tail.
8. Dry the craft.
9. Apply varnish and wait until completely dry.

The salt dough elephant is ready!

Salt dough dachshund

You will need: salt dough, simple pencil, scissors, cardboard, paints, brush, rope, toothpick, foam sponge, clear varnish, PVA glue.

Master Class

1. Draw a dachshund on the cardboard as shown in the image.
2. Cut out the template.
   
   
3. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm and cut out the dachshund according to the template.
4. Roll out the oblong eyes, then glue them on.
5. Blind the eyelids and glue them onto the eyes.
6. Use a toothpick to outline the paws, nose, mouth, ear and body contours.
   
   
7. Roll out an oval, then glue it onto the ear and smooth the seam with a wet finger. Use the same method to add volume to the dachshund's back and tail.
8. Mark stripes in different directions around the entire perimeter of the dachshund, so that the stripes resemble wool.
9. Dry the figurine.
   
   
10. Glue a piece of rope to the back of the craft for further hanging.

The salt dough dachshund is ready!

Boletus mushroom made from salt dough

You will need: salt dough, light bulb, paints, brush, foil, cardboard, masking tape, superglue, PVA glue, paper napkins, clear varnish, stack.

Master Class

1. Cover the light bulb with tape, then cover it with dough and dry the workpiece.
2. Cut a ring out of cardboard and place it on the light bulb as a base for the hat.
3. Form a hat from crumpled napkins, then secure with tape.
   
   
4. Wrap the hat with foil.
5. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm and stick around the cap.
6. Remove the cap from the stem, cover the bottom with dough and make stripes in a stack.
7. Glue the hat onto the leg.
   
   
8. Mold the mushroom's arms, legs and nose, then glue them on PVA.
9. Make a caterpillar and glue it to the hat.
10. Dry the figurine.
    
    
11. Paint the figurine, then leave to dry.
12. Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries.

Boletus mushroom made from salt dough is ready! I recommend watching this video!

Funny salt dough pigs

You will need: salt dough, paints, brush, foam sponge, stack, thin rope, toothpick, black gel pen, PVA glue.

Master Class

1. Roll 2 balls for the snout and use a toothpick to make the nostrils.
2. Make a muzzle, glue a snout and eyes above it.
3. Make triangular ears, glue them, then mark stripes with a stack at the junction of the ears and head.
   
   
4. Make a heart and glue it to the bottom side.
5. Make indentations along the edge of the entire circle.
6. Using a toothpick, make 2 holes on the top for attaching the rope and 2 holes on the bottom for the legs.
   
   
7. Roll up the arms and glue them in such a way that they hold the heart.
8. Make the hooves and make holes in them for the rope.
9. Dry the workpieces.
10. Paint the blanks with black paint and let them dry.
11. Wash off the paint from the convex parts of the workpiece under running water with a sponge and wait until it dries.

Dough is not only what delicious food is made from, but also an amazingly flexible material for creating a variety of figures. Salt dough is also used to make crafts for children, sculptures and even various architectural works - churches, famous world buildings, architectural monuments.

And all this is easy and accessible on a miniature scale using ordinary salt dough. In its properties, the dough resembles plasticine - soft, easy to mold and wrinkle, and also does not stain your hands. This set useful properties allows you to create figures from high quality salt dough.

The plastic properties of dough have been known for a long time. Our ancestors also sculpted various figures of larks and other animals from it; they gave holiday bagels, with which they celebrated the spring and winter holidays, to their relatives and children.

Over time, these have grown into an entire art; nowadays, such handmade souvenirs are highly valued and in demand.

Modeling from dough is a fascinating activity not only for adults, but also for children, because from it you can create both simple figures - flowers, leaves, apples, small animals, and more complex figures and their compositions - architectural structures, portraits of people , trees and others. It is worth keeping in mind that dough figures are quite heavy, so it is better to make do with small products.

What do we need?

There is far more than one recipe for modeling dough. There are recipes in which vegetable oil is added, but the figures will leave greasy marks.

There are some that recommend adding vinyl glue, but it is better to be careful with such dough, especially if you are modeling with children, because they like to put everything in their mouths. It is best to use the simplest and most environmentally friendly recipe: we need flour, salt and water.

The quality and plastic properties of the dough may depend on the flour. The best dough is made from inexpensive wheat flour.

After all, we don’t care about the vitamins and additives that are present in flour high grades, they undergo special processing for this, which can negatively affect the properties of the dough.

Dough made from rye wheat will be harder and more difficult to dry. You can mix several types of flour. You can use any salt, even the cheapest one. It is added to protect the salt dough figurines from harmful insects and rodents. A large quantity is not required, otherwise the dough after drying may become brittle and brittle, and may crack the finished product.

To create light, and not very light, figures from salt dough, you can use different ways staining. This way, you get brighter and more varied crafts.

Coloring, traditionally, is done after finishing modeling, but you can add paints directly during the process of kneading the dough.

Both food coloring and acrylic and gouache paints are suitable. To give the dough a beautiful coffee shade, it is also suitable instant coffee or cocoa.

After you have kneaded the dough, check if it sticks too much to your hands, then add a little more flour, if, on the contrary, it is too tight, then add water. When you are satisfied with the composition of the dough, roll it into a ball and place it in a plastic bag. Place the finished dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours, however, the cooling time may vary depending on which recipe you choose.

While the dough is cooling, you can prepare your work surface. Decide in advance what kind of figurine or craft you will make.

To create figures from salt dough, we may need: a rolling pin, a place for rolling out dough, a brush, a sharp knife, a pencil and other little things that every home probably has.

Crafts

Now that we are completely ready, we can start sculpting. If you decide to make a flat figure, then roll out a layer of dough with a rolling pin, think about what elements you will need to make. First we sculpt the smaller elements, then the larger ones. Let the parts dry a little and put them together.

To ensure that the joints are not too noticeable, we wet them with a brush and press them with our fingers. Thus, you can make relatively simple figures from salt dough. You can try making crafts from whole piece test, this is a more complex method, but you can get the most voluminous and realistic figures.

After your figurine is ready, it needs to be dried. If it is small, no more than a centimeter thick, then it can be dried at room temperature. Larger items should be dried at low oven temperatures. When the product is dried, you want it to sparkle and shimmer, for this it needs to be glazed.

The figurine must be glazed within an hour. To do this, you will need a strong saline solution, in proportions of 2:1, water and salt, respectively.

Using a brush, lubricate the product with the solution and send it to the oven. Depending on the temperature at which you dry the product, the product will turn white, beige or golden brown. The higher the temperature, the brighter the shade; drying can be done at temperatures from 50° to 200°.

When the first layer of glaze has dried, we lubricate the product again and repeat this for an hour. Glazing can be carried out not only with salt, but, for example, with egg yolk and water, or beetroot syrup diluted with water.

Let's look at making three-dimensional figures from salt dough using the example of a mushroom patch.

Process description

Let's knead the dough, it should come out quite dense so that the mushrooms keep their shape. For each fungus you will need two balls, one of which will be the cap and the other the stem.

We fashion a hat from one ball with a depression in the center, and from the other ball a leg, which should be slightly narrowed at the top. We connect the parts of our mushroom. Sculpt several large and a couple of medium mushrooms to make the clearing look varied; dry the mushrooms in the oven.

When our mushrooms have dried, you can show your imagination and paint their caps, both real and the most unrealistic colors. We paint the mushroom stems with white acrylic or gouache paint. The clearing is ready!

Don't despair if you think your figures are too childish. Over time, having gained experience, you will be able to move on to more complex shapes and products. In this form of art, the main thing is patience and perseverance, since it takes a lot of time to make such figures, but the result will not fail to please you.