😍 New Year's stories: magical and fabulously beautiful crafts made from salt dough

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Autumn flies by quickly, and the time will come when you want a fairy tale to burst into the house. But we, adults, understand that we create magic ourselves, with our own hands. Therefore, today the editors of homemaster.techinfus.com/en/ propose to start making New Year's crafts from salt dough - these are figurines, figurines, decorations, candlesticks, panels that will perfectly decorate the decor for the winter holiday.

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1 Salt dough sculpting: simple tips for beginners
2 Tips for making salt dough crafts for the New Year
3 Crafts from salt dough for making: we work together with a preschool child
- 3.1 Snowman "Shmyak"
- 3.2 Commemorative panels made of salt dough
4 Crafts from salt dough for schoolchildren
5 Other ideas for crafts from salt dough for the New Year
- 5.1 Decoupage of finished products
- 5.2 Flat christmas decorations
6 Video: New Year's crafts from salt dough

Salt dough sculpting: simple tips for beginners

You can look at the photos as much as you like and admire the crafts made from salt dough, but it is better to try to make them yourself.In order for the very first attempt to be successful and leave behind pleasant impressions and memories, you need to pay close attention to the instructions for making a working substance.

How to make the dough?

Such a working material for modeling is based on three products: flour, water and fine salt. There are varied recipes that include, in addition to the three main ingredients, starch and hand cream. Someone uses a recipe with wallpaper glue. It makes sense to start acquaintance with such material, starting with the basic recipe, but if there is experience in modeling, then it makes sense to use recipes with cream or vegetable oil. This is especially true if the product involves many small details.

For large and large-scale parts, starch is indispensable in the dough

Flour of the highest grade contains a sufficient amount of gluten, and finely dispersed salt of a brand such as "Extra" will allow the products to acquire the desired smoothness.

Standard recipe:

a glass of flour;
a glass of salt;
125 ml of water.

Different craftswomen insist on different proportions. It is proposed to take flour in two parts, and salt and water one by one. More salt will add strength to the product.

We focus on tactile sensations: add flour to the liquid substance, add water to the crumbling substance

All ingredients are mixed by hand or with a mixer until smooth. For a sample, tear off a piece and roll it into a ball. Pits are made on the ball with your finger: the ideal dough will retain its shape and will not blur.

Advice! If you add a little vegetable oil or hand cream while mixing the ingredients, then the dough will not dry out during modeling and will not become excessively sticky to your hands.

Coloring is carried out either after drying on the finished product, or the dough is colored

How to paint the working material? Gouache, liquid watercolor, food colors, cocoa, beetroot, carrot juice, cherry and spinach juice.

What crafts can be done and how to keep the dough leftovers

There are many ways to use this material for sculpting. This is work with children on the development of fine motor skills and imagination, and the decor of the apartment, and decoration for the holiday, and figurines, and photo frames, and gifts-toys.

Figures are made flat or voluminous, use a base or not. In general, the work is not very different from modeling from plasticine, but products made of salted material can be stored indefinitely.

We store the rest of the dough in the refrigerator, not forgetting to tightly wrap the substance in cling film or place it in a plastic container with a lid.

Advice! The dough will last longer if you add a sachet of citric acid for two glasses of flour to it.

Material without citric acid can be stored in the cold for 2-3 days, with acid - up to two weeks.

How to dry and paint products

There are several drying options.

We leave the products to dry at room temperature. The process is very lengthy.
Drying crafts on a heating battery a little faster.
In the oven, the products do not dry for so long, while the heating temperature varies. First, the crafts are dried in the oven at 50 ° C, then they are slightly browned at 150 ° C.

To make the product shine, it is varnished or glazed. Glaze is used for crafts in white, and colored items are varnished.
They also use the method of coating with an aqueous solution of salt and drying in the oven at low temperatures. Coating the finished product with egg white or yolk gives a pleasant golden brown hue.

If you take 1 part of salt and 2 parts of water, then you can cover the craft with such a solution and dry it for an hour at a temperature of 150 ° C. After this time, the craft is taken out again and covered with a salt solution a second time

If you want the thing to remain white, it is glazed and dried at a temperature of 50 ° C until fully cooked.

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Tips for making salt dough crafts for the New Year

Let's try to make crafts that will give you a good mood! There are several types of products that can be made using the sculpting method: we use layering of parts, we make volumetric products and we include small details in the work. In the work, the use of molds is encouraged - convenient plastic or metal forms (you can take ready-made molds for baking cookies, buy or do it yourself from an aluminum can), any textured surfaces, toothpicks, a plastic knife for plasticine, lids from felt-tip pens, tree leaves.

Bulky crafts made from salted dough dry the longest and, with insufficient strength of the substance and the absence of a core-core, they can creep out at the first stages of drying

A cookie cutter can help you make flat shapes easily

The texture depends on imagination: and a simple napkin becomes a chic template

Manicure accessories do not have to be used for their intended purpose! The needles of hedgehogs are also made with similar tucks of scissors.

How to make curls? Or roll thin sausages by hand, or use a garlic press!

Crafts from salt dough for making: we work together with a preschool child

Fine motor skills in preschool children are usually not very well developed, and modeling classes form all the necessary skills, develop fantasy and imagination. Tips from a kind adult nearby will help your toddler cope with difficulties.

Snowman "Shmyak"

A child is able to mold himself a good friend for winter games in the house. The help of an adult as a kind adviser and leader is obligatory. Use a recipe where starch is added. You just need to take into account that how much starch was put, it is better to remove so much flour. Adding 125 ml of hand cream will be helpful.

The snowman is molded consistently. First, the child tears off three pieces from the dough, which differ from each other in size

Make sure that the lumps are not too large, such work will dry for a very long time and cracks may occur. Install the frame. This can be a rod stuck into a salt dough cake, a small, stable object that can be used as a rod. The child makes three koloboks, putting each on the rod in descending order. Help sculpt eyes and pens. To fix the parts, the gluing point is lubricated with water.

The pedestal pillow can be decorated with a pattern using materials at hand

Commemorative panels made of salt dough

It will be difficult for a preschooler to create something artistic, but there is a way to let the child participate in the work and cope with it almost independently.

We make a small cake with the child and help him leave a footprint on it. As soon as the product dries, you can let the child paint it in the form of a snowman

The same manipulations are done with the print of a child's palm.

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Crafts from salt dough for schoolchildren

We have already looked at photos of New Year's crafts from salt dough and we want to offer excellent options for working with the dough for school-age children. They will cope with everything themselves, after listening to parting words and instructions. This does not mean that you need to leave and leave your son or daughter to the mercy of fate. Our task is to give an idea and explain the principle of operation. It's good if the adults nearby also try their hand at such an exciting technique.

What are the best salted dough products for children?

Depending on the age of the children, the topic and the level of complexity of the work are selected.

Younger children can be trusted to work with molds without any problems. Those who have skills in sculpting are entrusted with the manufacture of complex or three-dimensional figures.

Using a plastic or cardboard plate, it's easy to make a real winter panel

There will be no special difficulties with the figure of Santa Claus. First, it is better to find a suitable figure drawing, print it and use it as an aid.

Having made several long sausages, the child can weave a Christmas wreath

Snowmen are a favorite children's theme

Invite your child to try to draw a cute pig on the dough, the symbol of 2019

Those who are not at all successful with modeling can be entrusted with coloring the figures.

Such a panel requires not only imagination, but also drawing skills. If you can't draw the base of the panel yourself, use pictures from the Internet. Layer-by-layer, starting with a snowy meadow and the sky, which will then be painted, sculpt the whole picture

Owls will feel good among the greenery on the tree

School-age children will be able to sculpt more details in a Santa Claus figure than preschoolers

Salt dough angels

Angels are a suitable theme for Christmas decor.

The job is not difficult for experienced ones, and not so easy for beginners. It is better to take a finished drawing as a basis and constantly check with it in size.

Small details make the image complete

Such figures are usually liked by girls.

A little angel can be a tiny miracle if you help a child with body and face proportions.

Salted dough candlestick

We will immediately prepare everything you need for crafts from salt dough and study a master class. Take a small round candle, finished dough, garlic press, plastic knife, workplace, rolling pin.

Illustration	Action Description
	Tear off a small ball from the material and roll a dense bun out of it. Place the kolobok on a plastic cutting board and turn it into a small cake.
	We take a candle and push a hole in the cake, moreover, we make it slightly wider than the candle.
	We place a piece of dough in a garlic press, at this time we dip the brush in water and grease the place where the Christmas tree needles will be located.
	We tear off the "vermicelli" and put it in the form of spruce twigs.
	We complement the product with decor. We use a plastic knife for the leaves.
	We make roses by rolling a strip of dough like a roller.
	We begin to make a large rose in the same way as a small one, but add others around the central petal, one after another.

The product is dried and painted. After the varnish has dried, you can insert a candle and light it, admiring your own creation.

Using the base rod, you can make a candlestick with both a voluminous snowman and a herringbone

Table wreath for candles will be a chic decoration of the New Year's table

Other ideas for crafts from salt dough for the New Year

Salted dough products are not only painted and varnished. They are also decorated with rhinestones, sequins, beads. In this case, the crafts are dried naturally so as not to damage the decor.

Let's get acquainted with such a way of decorating crafts as decoupage.

Decoupage of finished products

To work, you need a New Year's napkin with a suitable pattern for the size of the finished product, PVA glue and a brush.

We coat the craft with PVA glue, place the desired piece of napkin on it and smooth it with a brush. Leave the product to dry

This is one of the easiest ways to decorate smooth crafts.

Round toy-cakes are perfectly decorated with napkins

Flat christmas decorations

Let's learn how to make figures from salt dough, a small master class will help with this.

Illustration	Action Description
	We will need dough, a string, a straw for juice, molds for toys, acrylic paints - white, silver and gold, a brush, beads.
	We roll out the dough with a rolling pin and use the forms to make figures.
	In each figure we pierce the holes for the string with a tube. We dry the figures.
	We paint finished products with white paint.
	For decoration, it is better to take gold and silver paints. But you can use any color of your choice.
	We paint some figures with small strokes and leave the paint to dry.
	We insert a string into each hole and string both ends of it onto a bead. We tie a string and hang the toy on the tree.

We hope that our information was useful, and you will also want to try to revive the dough from flour, salt and water at home, turning it into wonderful products.