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Master class “Model of a salt dough volcano. Video and photo lessons of modeling funny crafts from salt dough Beautiful modeling from salt dough

And let's make stones with our own hands? MK.

No, well, if you live on the seashore or in a country estate, then you have no problems with boulders, pebbles and cobblestones. And what about the residents of the metropolis, who find it inconvenient to create an “alpine hill” in the apartment, storing a mountain of cobblestones on shelves, balconies and window sills? There is only one thing left. Make stones with your own hands. Sculpt like pies. The advantage of such stones is that they are light, falling, they will not crush your leg, will not damage property and will not cause complaints from households.

I see at least three options for their use in the household of a needlewoman.

Firstly, jewelry looks beautiful against the background of stones (earrings, brooches, bracelets, etc.). Therefore, stones are a great accessory for photo shoots of your products.

Secondly, you can make candlesticks from man-made stones.

Third, handmade stones can safely replace the aroma lamp and incense stand. You can give it the status of an aroma stone.

The recipe is as simple as making scrambled eggs. Usually I take a disposable cup as a measure, it will mean 1 part.

So, for our pies you will need:

1 part flour

0.5 parts common table salt

0.5 parts of PVA glue

about 0.5 parts of water

And then the technological trick. We will need cosmetic clay(sold in pharmacies, in the cosmetic departments of stores), it is she who will give a natural color to our self-made stones and texture. Clay will go up to 0.5 parts.

I have this clay:

We knead the dough. Mix all dry ingredients, then add glue and pour water little by little. We need to get a cool dough that will not stick to our hands. If you poured water, then add clay to the density.

Then we need to sculpt something that will resemble a stone in shape. If you want to use the stone as a candlestick or as a fragrance, then make a hole in it right away.

Now put the pebbles on paper and leave to dry. Mine dried in the room for over a week. When the stones are dry, they can be painted or varnished. I left them a la naturel, I liked it that way. Well, then decide for yourself how you will use them: photograph your products against their background

light candles

or scent the room.

If your child is fond of archeology and dinosaurs, then you can make stones-historical exhibits with him. To do this, draw hieroglyphs on the raw dough or squeeze out a drawing like “the remains of a pterodactyl”.

And now a compliment from the chef, a bonus to the master class. If clay is replaced by ground coffee(pre-cooked and dried, the other is not good), then the texture of the stone will be more rough, but no less interesting.

I wish you all creative finds!

Polina Rassolova

Any activity proceeds more effectively and gives high-quality results, if at the same time children have strong motives, bright, deep, causing a desire to act actively, with full dedication of strength.

For creating layout required salt dough, box, self-adhesive, plastic bottle 1.5 liters, plastic cap, stationery knife, gouache, brushes, hot melt adhesive.

First, we prepare the box, cut off the corners, glue the outside of the box with self-adhesive tape. Then we cut off the top of the bottle, glue the lid to it with hot glue to make the bottom.

The lid must be well glued so that no liquid flows out of the bottle. We glue the blank to the box. Next, we glue all the walls of the box test, on one of the walls I fashioned a tree

Let the finished structure dry. After you can start coloring. The paint must be fixed on top with varnish.

You can start experimenting. In the mouth volcano pour a tablespoon of soda, a little red gouache and pour a little vinegar with the help of a funnel. The kids will just love it.

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I did my salt dough cookie making workshop with younger children. For this, I prepared in advance at home.

Dough modeling is a fun way to spend time with children. After all, at the same time, they not only sculpt, but also cook: they can experiment with the flour mixture in the process of measuring and mixing the ingredients, and then observe the metamorphoses that occur with the finished product when temperatures change during the drying process.

In addition, crafts made from salt dough are harmless to children, they do not contain allergens, and they can be safely tasted.

Figures made from homemade flour mixture are harder and better preserved than plasticine.

Basic dough recipe

Before you make dough for modeling, you need to imagine what kind of products will be made, whether the dough needs to be dyed, how long modeling will take, which drying mode will be selected.

The basic dough recipe for crafts consists of one part of salt and two parts of wheat flour to which citric acid is added - 2 tsp. 1 cup salt and 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil. The amount of water added during mixing should be equal to the amount of salt.

Dough preparation method

The test is made in the following order:

Mix flour with salt and citric acid and pour this mixture into a saucepan;
Place the saucepan over moderate heat and, stirring constantly, gradually add water until the dough begins to lag behind the pan and can be rolled into a ball.
Remove from heat and knead the dough with your hands.

Food coloring or gouache must be diluted in water, which is added before kneading the dough.

In the course of work, depending on the required consistency, the salt-flour mixture can be further diluted with water or oil, or flour can be added for hardness.

It is better to prepare the dough in as small portions as possible, right before sculpting, and store it only in a tightly closed container or cling film.

Drying salt dough crafts

In order for DIY salt dough crafts to retain their shape, do not break, and do not crack, you need to choose the right drying mode. You can simply leave the figurines to dry naturally in the air, you can put them in the oven.

There are two different methods for oven drying. The first is to preheat the oven, then turn it off and place the figurines in the heated space. You can also bake products at 100-degree mode, making sure that there is no burning.

A master class on making dough crafts involves, first of all, experimenting with the material: the composition of the dough and its drying mode, so failures in this process are inevitable.

Useful advice: Starting modeling with children, you need to set them up so that the first success, after many not quite aesthetic attempts, becomes a real miracle for them.

It is better to start with simple and uniform shapes, such as, for example, round beads of various colors and sizes. From them you can make garlands to decorate the room.

Then you can master more complex silhouettes - stars, hearts, and three-dimensional figures - New Year's snowflakes, Christmas trees, Easter eggs with patterns, egg coasters, chickens.

You can time the production of figurines for the holidays, or choose more neutral motifs for all occasions, making souvenirs and gifts in the form of stylized horseshoes, suns, stars, airplanes and funny faces.

During modeling, you can use special molds for modeling and baking, and other things, at the prompt of your imagination: garlic crush - to get thin ropes from dough, bottle caps - to cut out circles, plastic parts of toys - to get prints, almost everything What is at hand from a toothpick to wheels from toy cars can become a tool for sculpting dough.

Note!

It is easy to make holes in salt dough, both decorative and for hanging on threads. Holes on flat figures retain their shape when dry.

But when making more voluminous parts, such as spherical balls, in order to make a hole for the thread, you need to pierce the figure with a toothpick or other sharp tool made of wood or plastic and do not remove it until the product dries.

Helpful Hint: To glue the elements of the dough, it is enough just to wet the individual sections and attach them to each other.

From volumetric and flat figures, you can make garlands, key chains, medals and pendants. You can fashion chests and cups for storing jewelry, small treasures and pencils.

Volumetric figures of animals

Volumetric figures of animals are especially popular with children; they can be made in accordance with popular step-by-step instructions that are designed for plasticine and clay crafts.

Note!

You can sculpt from dough without dyes, then paint the finished figure and, after drying, varnish it.

You can also cut out various figures: having made their layout from cardboard, put it on a flat dough previously rolled out with a rolling pin and carefully cut along the edges. Then you can color the figurine, add the necessary texture - roughness, strokes, make eyes, nose or bead jewelry.

A wonderful handmade gift can be a photo frame or a unique candlestick.

Making panels that combine elements of mosaic, appliqué and modeling can captivate both children and adults. For the smallest, the simplest drawings are suitable: you must first draw a silhouette on parchment, then carefully fill it with dough along the lines.

More complex ideas can also be conceived and implemented using beads, cereal mosaics, dried flowers, etc.

Note!

Photo crafts from the test

Salt dough modeling is an exciting activity that can bring a lot of pleasure to both little fidgets and adult uncles and aunts. Salt dough is an excellent malleable material from which you can make a lot of interesting crafts, including whole paintings that radiate the warmth of the master's hands and homeliness.

Video catalog of works and ideas for modeling

To create a real masterpiece, you will have to try hard, but absolutely everyone can master testoplasty, especially since this technique does not require any unique abilities and expensive materials. If you set a goal, you can find everything you need without leaving your home, there would be a desire. For children, making crafts from salt dough will become not only interesting, but also a very useful activity, since fine motor skills of the hands are directly related to the development of speech, thinking, attention, imagination, visual and motor memory, and any joint creativity brings together.

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How to make salt dough for modeling

Almost every master uses his own unique dough recipe, so today we will offer several recipes at once. All recipes are good, but each is good in its own way. One is more suitable for small products, the other for large ones, the third is suitable for working with children. By experimenting with different components, you can decide on the optimal recipe.

Salt Dough Recipes

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First option: universal dough

1 glass of salt
1 cup wheat flour
1 tbsp vegetable oil
half a glass of water

Pour a glass of salt and a glass of flour into a large bowl. Mix with a spoon. Pour half a glass of water and a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Mix with a spoon and knead with your hands until smooth, like regular dough. To make the mass more plastic, we replace the water with jelly from starch. To prepare jelly, dissolve a tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. In a small saucepan, bring another glass of water to a boil. While stirring, pour the starch solution into the boiling water. When the contents of the saucepan become transparent and thicken, turn off the heat, let the jelly cool, and then add it to the flour and salt mixture instead of water.

If the dough is too soft, at the bottom of the bowl, mix a tablespoon of salt with a tablespoon of flour. Press the dough ball into the mixture and knead. If necessary, repeat the procedure.

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The second option for simple models

200 grams of flour
200 grams of salt
125 milliliters of water
(before adding to the dough, the glue must be diluted in warm water to the consistency of sour cream)

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Third option for large models

two glasses of flour
one glass of salt
2/3 cup water

You may need a little more water, the amount depends on the type of flour. In terms of density, the modeling dough should resemble softened plasticine. To prepare the dough, pour salt into hot water, wait until the salt is completely dissolved and the water has cooled. Add flour (the second grade is quite suitable) and knead the dough thoroughly.

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Strong salt dough for tiles and boards

200 grams of flour
400 grams of salt
125 milliliters of water
2 tablespoons plain wallpaper glue

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Fifth option: salt dough for delicate work

300 grams of flour
200 grams of salt
2 tablespoons plain wallpaper glue
4 tablespoons of glycerin

So that crystals do not come across in the finished product, and the surface is smooth, the salt for making the dough should be finely ground. If only coarse salt is at hand, before kneading the dough, it should be ground in a coffee grinder or diluted with the amount of water specified in the recipe. It is better to choose inexpensive varieties of flour without emulsifiers, baking powder and other additives.

We wrap the finished dough with a film so that it does not dry out, and send it to the refrigerator for several hours. This will make the dough more elastic and easier to work with while sculpting, and it will not break on the sides.

For children, choose recipes that do not contain glue.

Uncolored dough will have a light beige color. To give the product a warm bread shade, we take half of the wheat and rye flour from the amount indicated in the recipe. It is undesirable to use rye flour alone, since the dough will turn out to be hard, inelastic and will crumble.

Using watercolor or gouache, you can paint either ready-made figures, or color the dough even at the kneading stage. Gouache paints, food colors or natural food colors are perfect for coloring the dough: fruit and vegetable juices (beetroot, carrot juice, parsley juice), cocoa, coffee. The dough of different colors is stored in separate plastic bags or jars. Just like paints, pieces of colored dough can be safely mixed to obtain the desired shade:

blue + white = cyan
blue + yellow = green
green + blue = emerald
blue + pink = purple
white + red = pink
yellow + red = orange
green + red = brown

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Salt dough crafts

While the dough is cooling and reaching the desired condition, you can prepare the workplace and everything you need for modeling. First of all, we free the table from foreign objects and cover it with oilcloth. We may also need:

a working board for rolling out the dough (you can use a piece of thick cardboard covered with a sheet of baking foil on top)
rolling pin (can be replaced with a smooth bottle)
knife with a thin blade
cardboard
pencil
tassel
floss threads
aluminium foil
various small things: buttons, corks, matches, coins - to create embossed surfaces; beads, cereals, foil - for decoration.

Almost everything is used for modeling dough: buttons and fabrics for textured prints, various seeds and cereals for original ornaments, dried flowers, fresh embossed leaves, twigs, etc. Wet fabrics and objects slightly with vegetable oil before printing so that they do not stick to the dough. Beautiful buttons, pebbles, glass beads, glass beads, beads, shreds and lace, threads and chains can not only be printed, but also “imprinted” directly into the dough. If you fire your products in the oven, make sure that the beads are not plastic, but glass, and the threads are not synthetic.

Since the dough dries very quickly in air, it must be kept in tightly closed jars on the desktop. Each time it is necessary to take exactly as much dough as necessary, and immediately fold the excess back.

Testing can be done in several ways. Firstly, you can roll out a layer of dough, cut out various flat figures from it, and then make a composition out of them. However, in order to get a three-dimensional product, it is better to mold individual parts, and then combine them into a planned composition. Wet the joints with a brush and gently press with your finger. A toothpick will help attach the head to the body.

To create a picture or a plate based on the board, first we roll out the dough one and a half centimeters thick, cut out the desired shape from it, let it dry for several days and only after that we apply the rest of the details, using the same salt dough diluted to mushy as glue states. Fresh parts are held together with a brush and water.

To make a nice frame, you can first draw a sketch on cardboard, then cut it out and stick it around with dough, and when it dries a little, attach small details.

When working with volumetric vertical figures, a wire frame should be used. Inside large bulky products, you can put tightly formed baking foil balls, boxes or jars, carefully tightened with dough so that no holes or cracks remain. In this case, the manufacture of the product will require less material, it will not deform during drying and will dry much faster.

If after work you have left unused dough, wrap it in an oilcloth or a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator. This will keep the dough from drying out and spoiling for several months.

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Drying, firing, coloring and varnishing

In order for dough products to gain strength, they must be air-dried or burned in the oven. The first option will take quite a long time, since during air drying the moisture from the product evaporates very slowly. In good weather, in one day the product will dry out only a few millimeters. It is better not to put crafts from the test on the battery, because it is likely that they will simply crack.

It is better to use the combined method - first dry the product a little in the sun, and then burn it in the oven. The product must not be baked! It should not be baked, but dried at the lowest temperature, while the oven door should be slightly ajar. In this mode, the product should be fired for one and a half to two hours until it turns red and the dough hardens. In case of overheating, bubbles and cracks will appear on the figure.

After drying or firing, salt dough products can be painted and varnished. Acrylic paints can be used for coloring, but artistic gouache with the addition of a small amount of PVA glue is best. This mixture, after drying, will give the product a slight sheen and will not stick to the hands. Acrylic varnish is perfect for varnishing, it is non-toxic, water-soluble and dries in just 6-8 hours.

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Master class on making funny cats

In this article, you will learn how to make your own salt dough and how to dry it. Many photos and step-by-step instructions will help you make a dough craft for any holiday.

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

How to make dough for crafts: recipe

You can make your own dough with just a few simple ingredients: flour, fine salt, citric acid, vegetable oil and water.

Mix first 1 cup of flour with 0.5 cups of salt and 2 teaspoons of citric acid. Pour into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of oil to the dry mixture. Place over medium heat, gradually add water and stir. Water should go no more than 0.5 cups. When the mass lags behind the walls of the pan and becomes one lump, remove the pan from the heat. Take out the mass, put it on a board sprinkled with flour, and, like a regular dough, knead with your hands.

If you want to make colored dough for modeling, you first need to dilute dry food coloring in water. You can also add a little gouache to the finished dough and knead it well so that the color becomes uniform.

How to prepare salt dough for modeling?

Prepare salt dough. Color it in different colors, depending on what you want to mold. The dough can be made uncolored, divided into balls and a little gouache of the desired color can be added to each and kneaded. It is better to make a dough of regular colors, and then mix them to achieve the desired.

Keep the dough in a bag, or wrap it in cling film, you can put it in a closed container so that it does not dry out. If it still dries out, add a little water, and if it is too wet, add a little flour.

Make the dough thinner and just spread it on the base of the craft, so you can make butter on a slice of bread, or make chocolate icing for a cake from brown dough.
Try on food you've made with toy plates you'll play with later to match.
To stick pieces of salt dough together, use a wet brush. Spread the junction with a brush, and stick the parts to each other
When sculpting food for dolls, it is very important to make the dough the same color as the original as possible, for example, carrots should be orange, not yellow or red.
So that the colors do not fade, open the craft with varnish. For classes with children, you need to use special harmless varnishes, they do not have an unpleasant odor, because they are made on a water basis

Drying figures from salt dough for modeling

There are two ways to dry salt dough crafts.

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

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

Of course, if there are other decorations (beads, beads) in the craft, you need to dry it in the first way.

New Year's crafts from salt dough

The child will really like to decorate the house before the New Year and do crafts with their own hands together with their parents.

Christmas tree toys made of dough

Salt dough can make great Christmas decorations, and even toddlers can handle making them.

Prepare dough for modeling in different colors or uncolored
Roll out a cake from it and squeeze out a figure, you can use cookie cutters
Make a hole with a cocktail tube so that you can hang the figurine on the Christmas tree
Decorate the toy as you and your child want: stick colorful balls on the Christmas tree, make a garland for it, let it rain, add white snow to the toy
Uncolored dough can be dried first, and then painted with paints or markers
Dry the dough or bake in the oven
Pass the ribbon through the hole and hang the toy on the Christmas tree

You can make a lot of holes in the figures.

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

You can decorate toys with ribbons or decorative strings.

After the dough dries, apply PVA glue to it and sprinkle the figures with sparkles.

Color the uncolored dried dough with a permanent marker.

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

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

You can also make just such a toy-Santa Claus. To give him a beard, use a garlic press.

Make these brown dough gingerbread toys.

We sculpt a New Year's candle from dough

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

Let the child roll up colorful sausages.
Wrap them around our cardboard base

Decorate it with colorful balloons
You can simply stick around the cardboard cylinder with one color and then decorate it

Make a fire out of napkins and fix it at the top of our candle

Christmas tree made of dough

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

Glue the cardboard base for your Christmas tree

Now let the child decorate it: let it stick around it with green dough - you will get a Christmas tree. It remains only to add balls, a garland, a star to it, and do not forget about the gifts under the Christmas tree

Can you make a tree like this?

Easter crafts from salt dough

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

Decorated eggs from pastry

Bunny figurines cut out of salt dough.
Decorated easter egg

Egg stand

Easter eggs from dough

Even a toddler can handle this task.

Take the dough, mold it into an egg-shaped figure.
Decorate it however you and your child like.

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

In general, fantasize!

Dough egg holder

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

Cover the cut circle of cardboard with unpainted dough, blind its tail, head and other parts, as shown in the diagrams below.

Do not forget to close the stand on all sides with dough.

Decorate the craft as fantasy tells, you can use gouache or watercolors.

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

Crafts from the test for February 14 for Valentine's Day

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

Salt dough heart

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

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

You can make such a keychain with paws.

These cute couples are made very quickly and simply.

You can make many of these heart figures, make holes in them and make a garland out of them, which will decorate the wall in the house.

Dough photo frame

Make an empty heart, decorate it and use it as a frame for a family photo, fasten it with colored cardboard on the back.

salt dough decoration

Here is such a fish in love that will definitely suit mother's outfit on this holiday.

Crafts from the test for March 8

On March 8, you can make such flower keychains for mothers, grandmothers, aunts and sisters. They can be made with younger children. You can use multi-colored dough or unpainted, and then decorate it with paints.

You can make such a flower candlestick as a gift.

Make such interesting medals with your children, and most importantly, everyone is different. Let the child give them himself.

Blind figures in the shape of a figure eight and decorate with flowers, stones, beads, in general, what is enough imagination.

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

Salt dough roses

We take the dough for modeling, you need colors
We sculpt a cone

We roll the ball, flatten it gently into a round cake
Glue the ball to the cone

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

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

We make a few side by side, depending on how lush you want to get a flower

The rose is ready!

If necessary, make leaves from green dough, push the veins with a toothpick. Make legs out of sausages. Connect all the details in one flower.

Crafts from the dough by February 23

Here's a medal you'll love.

Airplane - salt dough craft

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

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

Roll up the wheels for it and the fender liner

Walk with a wet brush and attach the parts to the body

Blind and attach wings in the form of triangles on toothpicks

Make a propeller and use a toothpick to also attach to the body

Let the figurine dry for a few days.

Paint an airplane with gouache

Crafts from dough for Maslenitsa

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

For the smallest, you can offer to make the sun, which symbolizes the onset of spring.

Here is such a sun for older children.

Invite your child to make their own salt dough pancakes.

Keychain pancakes

Salt dough panels and pictures

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

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

Roll out the uncolored dough to a thickness of about 0.5 cm.
Prepare a basket template and, attaching to the dough, cut out a basket from it
Squeeze out the dough with a garlic press, twist it into flagella, stick it, moistening the junction before that, on the handle of your future basket. You can add flagella to the rim

Using a stack or a knife, push through the lines imitating basket weaving

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

Now prepare fruits: apples, plums, grapes, etc. Roll them into balls of different sizes and give them the desired shape. For apples, in the place where the dried inflorescence should have been, stick a clove seasoning, the apples will look like real ones
Connect everything in one picture

Leave your craft to dry for a few days, preferably naturally.
Decorate as you wish

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

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

Step-by-step dough crafts

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

Salt dough beads

We take colored dough, it can be the same color, it can be different
We roll balls out of it, preferably evenly and of the same size. Can be sized in descending order
We pierce the balls carefully in the center with a toothpick
Let them air dry for a few days. Flip them over from time to time.
When the balls are dry, carefully remove the toothpicks
The resulting beads are strung on a cord or ribbon.
You can paint the beads with paints or markers

Salt dough horseshoe

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

test star

Roll out the dough into a layer about 1cm thick.
Cut out an asterisk or other figure with a cookie cutter
Lubricate the corners gently with a wet finger so that they are smooth
We decorate the figurine: we make her eyes, mouth, nose, pierce holes with a toothpick, add decorations
Bake in the oven or air dry
We open with varnish

Dough caterpillar

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

salt dough apple

Roll out a ball of dough in the form of half an apple. To make the cut even, press it against some even surface.
Adding a Flat White Center
We roll seeds for an apple and a tail from brown dough. We make leaves from green
We collect the figurine and dry

Salt Dough Crafts - Hedgehog

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

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

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

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

Salt Dough Crafts - Animals

From salt dough with children, you can sculpt many animals. Below are some step-by-step instructions with photos.

Dough sheep

Roll 4 balls - these will be the legs of the lamb. Place them in a square, pressing them tightly against each other (see photo)
Roll up a piece of foil and place it inside the pastry. Roll a ball out of it - this will be the body of a lamb
Add a sheep's head, blind balls-eyes, horns and ears from sausages
To imitate wool, make a lot of small balls and wrap them around the back of the figure, pressing them down a little
Dry your craft and decorate with paints and/or markers

Salt Dough Owl

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

Dough elephant

Roll up the ball, pull it out a little - this will be the body of the elephant
Make 4 thick sausages - these will be the legs
Blind a trunk from another one
Make a ponytail from a thin sausage
Roll out two cakes, put plates of smaller diameter and pink color on them - you will get ears
Collect everything in one figure and don't forget about the eyes
Dry the elephant and open with varnish

Dough crafts - cat

Cut out the cat template from cardboard

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

Let the dough dry
Use sandpaper to sand around the perimeter of the figurine.

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

Frame the panel

Sculpt fish from salt dough

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

Let the mushroom dry and decorate it

Dough Crafts - Fruits and Vegetables

Many different vegetables and fruits can be molded from salt dough, with which you can then play and feed the dolls.

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

Following step-by-step instructions and photos, you can make interesting figures from salt dough, which you can then give to friends and family for different holidays. We hope you found a lot of interesting works and useful information in this article. Have fun and beautiful crafts!