Plastic for modeling yourself: a recipe. Molding flowers from plastic

Among the handicrafts, such material as plastic is gaining popularity. For modeling dolls, flowers, costume jewelry, crafts with children and so on - everywhere you can use this material. We suggest you familiarize yourself with it more closely.

What is plastic for modeling?

With your own hands, you can make crafts from different materials: wood, fabric, clay, salted dough, wire, beads and so on. For modeling today are the most popular plasticine, salted dough and plastic.

Plastic is, in other words, polymer clay. Very convenient material for modeling. Plastic withers and becomes durable, like plastic. When first used, it resembles a very elastic dough or clay. From it you can make toys, crafts, jewelry, decor elements and much more. Dry the finished product in the air or in the oven.

Advantages of plastics:

• Quickly dries;
• It is easy to work with it;
• Do not get your hands dirty;
• Do not soften with long work;
• The finished product does not lose shape over time;
• Rich color diversity;
• The product can be painted.

Where to get the plastic?

There are many places where to buy plastic for modeling:

• Departments for creativity in ordinary stores;
• Children's shops;
• Online shopping for creativity;
• Specialized stores for creativity.

Plastic for modeling with their own hands is sold in different shades, but it is not cheap.

We make plastic on our own

If you do not want to go to the store, then we offer you an alternative.

Plastic at home is made as follows:

1. To get approximately 350 grams of material at the output, you need to take 250 grams (1 glass) of PVA glue, 250 grams of cornstarch (if you do not need a snow-white color, you can use ordinary starch), one tablespoon of petroleum jelly and hand cream Ordinary low-fat and without silicone), two tablespoons of lemon juice.
2. From the dishes and tools, take a bowl that will mix ingredients, a spoon for stirring, a backing, a piece of food film or kulechek, a piece of cloth that absorbs moisture well, a plastic spatula.
3. In a bowl, pour out all the starch and pour glue with petroleum jelly.
4. When the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, add the lemon juice.
5. Set the maximum power on the microwave and put a bowl in it for 30 seconds. Then move everything and turn on the oven for half a minute. You can use a gas stove. Then stir the mass until thickened over a small fire.
6. Lubricate the hand cream with the substrate and lay out the mass on it, after removing the upper frozen ball. It must be thrown away.
7. Mix the mass as if you were working with a dough. Knead for five minutes until the slice becomes elastic. Help yourself with a spatula. With its help, pieces from the substrate are easily scraped off.
8. Roll a piece of plastic into the sausage and put it on the cloth to leave excess moisture. Put everything in the refrigerator, as in the air the material will solidify.
9. After a while, clean the cloth and wrap it in a film or bag.

Plastic for modeling with your own hands is ready!

If you want to make the material multi-colored, divide the dough into portions and add to each desired shade of oil paints, for fabric or food colors.

Simple flowers from plastic

There are a lot of types of flowers that a beginner can do in plaster molding. For example, violets, cornflowers, peonies, chamomiles, roses and so on.

Basically the molding of colors from plastic is as follows:

1. Very small balls roll down.
2. Of them, petals are made.
3. Then the petals are given a shape.
4. The petals are folded together.
5. The product is baked.

If desired, you can add leaves and stalk.

Making Dolls

Plastic for modeling of dolls should have a snow-white color or slightly pinkish tinge.

Features of work:

1. To make a doll, first from the pieces of foil, form all the components: legs, hands, body, head.
2. Then roll out the plastic and coat the pieces of foil with flat cakes.
3. You can glue the foil completely, bake the doll, and then leave it. And you can split the parts in half, pull out the foil, and then glue the parts together.
4. Then all the parts join together and the doll is painted.

The second way to make a doll of plastic:

1. From the wire, make a frame for the doll.
2. Top with a foil ball.
3. Flesh with plastic foil and form the head.
4. Then make the handles and legs.
5. At the end, mold the body.
6. Cure all the details: face, fingers and so on.
7. Bake a doll.

Some tips and guidelines for working with plastic

• To not prepare each time a new portion of plastic, you can make stocks. The material can be stored for a long time in a tightly closed glass jar or plastic container in the refrigerator. When you want something to dazzle, cut off a small piece from a large stock, and send the rest back.
• It is best to use a plastic plate or a silicone mat as a substrate. Then the plastic for molding with their own hands will not stick.
• At the end of modeling all tools and substrate should be cleaned well, so that the plastic remains are not dried out and migrated to a new product the next time.
• If the hand-made article consists of several parts that you need to join together, then the best way to do this is to use a conventional PVA glue.
• As additional tools and materials, as your products become more and more plastic, you may need molds (plastic or silicone), sticks (from ice cream, chupa-chups and so on), caps from handles, rulers, rolling pins and much more.