A molding from a salted dough: entertainment and art

The molding of salted dough is so universal that they can be carried away both as a child and as an adult. Working with this material has all the advantages of modeling, and additional benefits associated with the environmental safety of the test. You can mold it out even for children up to a year: a sea of pleasure and no risk.

How to prepare the dough

The molding from the salted dough suggests the preparation of working material at home. In this there is nothing complicated: the proportion of flour and water is 1: 1, salt is better to take a large, it will give the impression of transparent inclusions glinting in the light. Even when covered with paint, such products retain this effect. Although, if you are going to perform fine artwork, then such grains will be distracting - in this case use fine salt. When mixing it with flour, do not forget that the flour is easier every two, so the volume of flour used is twice the volume of the fine salt, although the weight of these ingredients is equal.

How much to pour water? The classical recipe contains a recommendation to add 1 part, but it is better to focus on the type of test: it should be well molded, but not spread. One teaspoon of vegetable oil will add a mixture of elasticity and protect from the cracking of the finished product.

For the youngest: salted dough fish

The molding from the salted dough develops small motor skills, voluntary attention and creative abilities of the child, calms the nervous system and gives an opportunity for adults to get distracted from their affairs and just talk to the baby. For a small child, tactile sensations are very important, so modeling is an excellent activity.

Try to create a salted dough fish. This is a simple figure that any child can do, especially with the sensitive help of parents. Ready figurine bake in the oven at the lowest temperature until a slight blush appears. Be sure to cool the figure before giving it to the child for further work.

On the salted dough the gouache falls perfectly, after drying it can be covered with a colorless nail polish or for the hair, so that it does not leave colored marks on the fingers.

Interior decoration - a tree of salted dough

If for children modeling of salted dough is, above all, entertainment, then for real masters, it can turn into art.

Mixing the dough with a fine salt, paint two-thirds of it with cocoa or brown gouache, and leave a third white. On the foil for baking, place the trunk out of the brown sausages, giving it a relief with the help of longitudinal grooves (use the stack). From the trunk, lay the branches up. Now the crown. It is made of long white and brown sausages, which need to be laid out with beautiful curls and loops to create a continuity effect. Hinges can intersect with each other, overlap one another and go through each other. The main thing is that there is no pile of details, and the crown created a feeling of lightness. For this, the sausages must be really thin.

Ready work dry in the oven, and after cooling, cover with acrylic lacquer. Colors will become brighter, and the tree will shine. Now the shape can be glued on thick paper and inserted into the frame. A wonderful gift for friends or for your own home is ready.

Subtlety and Tricks

To make the article not cracked during the drying phase, it is best to dry it in 3-4 stages with breaks. An hour in the oven, on the very smallest fire, the product is dried, then 2-3 hours at room temperature. Turn the product over and repeat the process, and so 3 or 4 times, depending on the thickness of the dough. This applies to highly artistic things, children's handicrafts can be smaller - they will dry up afterwards, after the final finishing.

To glue figures to paper is best with PVA glue, the main thing is to wait for the final drying of the glue, and then to lift the picture: the dough is heavy, the image can creep if you do it ahead of time