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Easter fakes made from salted dough. Easter composition of salted dough

Olga Rasskazova

Bright Resurrection of Christ - Easter Is the greatest Christian holiday.

Unlike last year, Easter in 2019 it will not be early. We will celebrate it in the midst of spring - April 28. This is one of the brightest, great holidays, which has its own centuries-old traditions and rituals. Also Easter personifies renewal, new life.

Today I want to tell you how the children and I prepared for its celebration.

The guys and I mastered modeling easter eggs from salt dough or dough plastic is a very exciting activity that does not require specific, special skills and special financial costs. Salt, water and flour are the main ingredients for this type of handicraft. Dough turns out to be soft and obedient, allowing even beginners to make wonderful figures. This process will be equally interesting for both children and adults.

From salt dough you can make a huge number of figures and crafts, for example: dishes, flowers, animals, various figures, inscriptions, figures, toys, paintings and whatever you want, but we decided to try to make Easter eggs... After all, they are bright, colorful, and so pleasing to the eye. Modeling from salt dough called bioceramics. The main advantage salty dough is that it is convenient to work with it, this material is absolutely harmless and crafts made from it will delight you for many years.

Recipes for sculpting from a lot of salt dough... They can be found easily on the internet. Depending on the size of the product, fine salt, flour and water are mixed in different proportions, and in dough, among other things, more additional Ingredients: food colorings, gouache, glycerin, PVA glue, vegetable oil, starch and even hand cream. For beginners dough I recommend using a simple recipe.

Recipe test:

2 cups flour

1 cup fine salt (not iodized,

1 glass of water (add food coloring to the water).

Mix and knead everything dough... Then it must be put in a plastic bag so that it does not dry out.

Dough I prepared in advance, I got seven colors (orange, red, yellow, green, purple, blue, and white).

Step 1:

We put thick dough, thick film. I use a piece of linoleum for this.



Step 2:

Roll out rolling pin dough.


Step 3:

We take the mold and cut it out Easter egg... Instead of a mold, I used a plastic soap dish, which I squeezed at the top.



Step 4:

We remove unnecessary dough.



Step 5:

We make a hole in the top of the egg with a wooden stick. In order to further thread the thread and hang the finished product.


Step 6:

Decorate easter egg flowers, colorful peas, fabulous ornaments, etc.





Step 7:

We dry the craft.


Step 8:

We cover the craft with varnish.


Step 9:

We put in egg colored thread and hang.

Related publications:

In my blog, I have already talked about working with salted dough. And today I want to bring to your attention a children's master class "Caterpillar".

Master class from salted dough "Mom's heart" (for Mother's Day), the first junior group.

Creative photo report on the master class on modeling from salt dough. In the younger group "Matryoshka" the project "On a visit to the fairy tale" was held.

Purpose: making a souvenir using the "dough plastic" technique. Objectives: to instill a love of salt dough modeling; develop imagination, artistic.

b] The purpose of the master class: the study by the teachers of the master class of the use of testoplasty in teaching preschool children c.

The work is done using the technique of dough plastic, it can serve as a wonderful interior decoration and a wonderful gift. Making parts from.

Made from various materials.

You can use napkins, cotton pads, and even dough.

You can safely involve children in such creative work, for whom it will be not only interesting, but also useful.

Here are some very interesting Easter crafts that can be made from different materials:


Easter dough craft: Easter medallion eggs

You will need:

Salty dough

Ruler

Dough cutting mold

Scapula

Tubing (for small holes)

Aluminium foil

Paints (acrylic or aerosol)

Twine or tape.

1. Prepare salty dough... There are many ways to do this.

* If you don't want to make the dough, you can replace it with polymer clay.

Here is one way to make salty dough:

2 cups of flour

1 tbsp. a spoonful of fine salt

1 tbsp. spoon of wallpaper glue

* Mix flour and salt. Add a little water (a few spoons) to the glue and wait until it swells.

* Stir flour, salt and glue - knead the dough. You can add some water if you like. You should get a dough that sticks to your hands.


2. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to the desired thickness. In this example, the thickness of the dough is 6 mm.

3. Cut chicken eggs out of the dough.

4. Place these tins on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil or baking paper. Make small holes with a straw so that the crafts can be hung later.


5. Bake at first at a low temperature - about 100 C. Then remove the aluminum foil and put the baking sheet back in the oven at 125 C. Be careful not to burn yourself. You can use parchment paper instead of foil and bake at 120 degrees for 2 hours.


Then place the salted dough pieces on the wire shelf.

You can turn off the oven and wait for the dough to dry.

6. Start painting your blanks, and after the paint dries, tie a ribbon and hang.


Easter pasta crafts: large Easter egg


You will need:

Pasta of different shapes

Markers (markers)

PVA glue

Paint (aerosol)

Big balloon

Hot glue.

1. Inflate the balloon.

2. Mark the place for cutting on the ball with a marker.

3. Apply PVA glue to the entire ball, except for the designated area.

4. Start sticking pasta onto the ball so that you get a pattern.

5. When everything is dry, you need to remove the ball - pierce it with a needle.


6. It's time to decorate the craft. It all depends only on your imagination.

7. You can put the craft on a stand and paint with spray paint - in this example, gold.



DIY pasta crafts for Easter

You will need:

Chicken eggs

Small pasta

PVA glue

Aerosol paints (if desired).

1. Get rid of the contents of the egg.

2. Apply PVA glue to the shell.

3. Glue small pasta to the shell (you can glue each pasta, sprinkle or dip in a bowl).

4. You can use lentils or peas in addition to pasta.

5. When the glue is dry, paint the egg. Paint one side first, then paint the other half.


Easter paper crafts

Easter chicken. Option 1.

To make such a craft, first you need to draw a template.



Easter chicken. Option 2.

A paper chicken can be made from paper plates or cardboard from which you want to cut a circle. Just fold the paper plate in half, cut out the wings, eyes, beak and scallop from colored paper and glue them to the plate.




3-D Chicken

Easter napkin crafts: stand



1. Prepare a paper towel and fold it in half diagonally.



2. Fold the corners of the resulting triangle up so that they connect to the top corner. You should have a square.


3. Roll the bottom edge of the square to the middle with a roller.


4. Now flip your design and connect the bottom corners that are under the roller. These corners should be secured with a paper clip.


5. Flip the blank back so that the paper clip is at the back. Spread the ends of the blank in different directions, and you get a beautiful stand for an Easter egg.

We paint eggs with do-it-yourself napkins


1. Dip a paper towel in the vinegar, squeeze out any excess, and wrap it around the egg.


2. Place the egg on a plate or baking sheet and gently begin adding drops of colored food coloring.


3. When the whole egg is colored, remove the paper towel and place the colored egg in the cardboard box.


Easter egg crafts: decoupage


You will need:

White eggs

Napkins with beautiful designs and patterns

Scissors

PVA glue.


1. Separate the topmost layer from the paper napkin, you will not need the rest.

2. Cut out beautiful designs and patterns. You can cut with white edges and not necessarily neatly.

3. Prepare an egg and brush it with glue or egg white.

4. Glue the cutout pattern to the egg and apply a layer of glue on top with a brush.

When everything is dry, you will have a beautiful Easter egg.

Crafts from cotton pads for Easter: chicken





You will need:

Cotton pads

Yellow paint for eggs

Colored paper

Scissors

Chenille wire

1. Dilute the yellow paint with water. Dip 2 cotton pads in the solution and stain. Then leave the discs to dry.

2. Use chenille wire to make chicken legs.

3. Cut the scallop, wings and beak out of colored paper.

4. Glue all parts between two cotton pads.

5. Glue the toy eyes and the chicken is ready.

DIY Easter wreath



You will need:

Willow wreath (you can make a wreath with your own hands)

Plain paper napkins

Corrugated paper

Colored and regular cardboard

Scissors

Simple pencil

Hot glue

1. Making decorations for the wreath. Cut out several circles of different diameters from paper: the circle for the body has a diameter of 5 cm, for the head 4.5 cm. The more circles, the more voluminous the detail.


2. Cut 2 more circles out of cardboard, each with a diameter of 2-3 cm. This will be the base of the chicken.

3. Now glue all the blanks. Start by applying a little glue to the center of the first circle and glue the next. Thus, glue all the circles together.


4. Glue a piece of cardboard to one of the circles.

5. In a similar way, you need to glue another stack of circles.

6. Make small cuts on the circles, and then fluff the circles.


7. Cut out the chicken's beak, legs and wing from colored cardboard. In order to fasten the body of the chicken, cut a strip from the cardboard and glue all the details to it - the wing on one side, and everything else on the other.

8. Make the eyes. You can use plasticine, buttons, or other parts that are suitable in size and shape.

* If you wish, you can make another chicken in a different color.


9. Making decorative flowers and eggs. Take dust wipes. Felt can be used, but it is more expensive. Cut out ovals that will act as Easter eggs and various patterns for them.

Why do we love the holidays? Probably because it is pleasant to prepare for them: to think about gifts, to set the table. But there are special, bright celebrations in our life, such as Easter. On Easter, people give each other small Easter gifts: painted eggs, cakes, baskets, Easter souvenirs. Children love to cook crafts for Easter with their own hands, it is so interesting for them to take part in the preparation and work. We have selected the most interesting master classes for children and adults from a variety of crafts.

We offer Easter crafts from the simplest materials, the purchase of which does not hit the budget, they are always available in any ordinary store.

Such an interesting basket for eggs can be easily made from a disposable plate, wooden clothespins and scotch tape.

We cut a disposable plate with scissors:

We glue the sides and glue them on top with paper or tape them together. We separate the clothespins, glue them with glue. Moment. We fix it on top with a thin braid.

Cut strips of paper to the bottom, make a handle out of cardboard. Decorate with a bow or several.

We print a bunny template or draw on a sheet of cardboard or thick paper. We paint on both sides, glue and put a beautiful Easter egg in its paws.

We make chickens from disposable spoons, cotton pads, colored paper.

You can make the same funny bunnies:

More Easter crafts: unusual egg plates. How beautiful multi-colored eggs will look on such an original plate! We cut out 4 legs and a bunny's head from white paper, make out the muzzle. We put clothespins on a plate, glue paper paws to them. Put chopped white paper on the bottom of the plate.

We make a plate with chicken in the same way. Difference: yellow paper and the size of the paws.

DIY gifts for Easter

There are a lot of ideas for gifts for Easter, you get tired of choosing. I would like to hope that our master classes will help you in your choice.

From paper

An Easter basket for the upcoming holiday can be made from a regular paper bag. Or beautiful wrapping paper, maybe you still have candy boxes. There are many options. In such an interesting basket, colorful Easter eggs or delicious delicacies will look original.

For work you will need:

  1. Paper.
  2. Scissors.
  3. Ruler.
  4. A hot air gun or regular paper glue.
  5. Pencil.

If you took a package for work, then you need to cut off the bottom of it. We cut the side. With a ruler and pencil, line the paper into strips 3 cm wide.

We bend all the strips in half along the entire length.

We begin to weave a basket from strips, as in the photo.

So that the details do not get confused, we glue the strips to the top of the basket, then we will cut it all off. We glue the handle and glue the top of the basket.

We will sculpt an interesting chicken stand for Easter eggs, as a gift. There are several recipes for making dough.

Recipe for wheat flour dough:

  1. Flour - 2 cups.
  2. Exra salt - 1 glass.
  3. Cold water - 250 grams.
  4. Storage bag.
  5. 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sunflower oil.

Recipe for rye flour products:

  1. 3 cups (300 g) wheat flour.
  2. 1 cup (100 g) rye flour
  3. 2 cups (400 g) fine salt
  4. 250 ml of water.

Rye flour gives the figurines a warm color to the bread. To prepare any dough, mix the flour and salt, then pour in gradually cold water and mix again. The degree of readiness of the dough can be determined as follows: if the dough stretches and sticks to your hands, then there is a lot of water in it. Therefore, you need to add more flour.

For work you will need:

  1. The dough is salty.
  2. Stack.
  3. Peeler.
  4. Toothpick.
  5. Manicure file.
  6. Black peppercorns.
  7. Paints, brush.
  8. The varnish is transparent.
  9. Garlic press.

Roll out a cake 0.5-0.7 cm thick, this will be the chicken's nest itself. We make the sides of the nest with a garlic press. We make a "straw", wetting it with water.

We leave the work for 1 day to dry, so that the dough will keep its shape well in the future. We start sculpting the chicken. We sculpt the blank of the body. We need the chicken as a stand for the egg, which means we must make a depression for the Easter egg. We take a round shape, make a notch, sculpt the chicken breast and neck. With a vegetable peeler we make plumage on the breast.

We insert a toothpick into the chicken's neck, leave 1.5 cm.Connect the nest and the chicken's body. We roll out the dough, make blanks for wings 1 cm thick. Draw the plumage with a vegetable peeler, attach it to the body of the chicken, moistening it with water.

Next, our task is to make the chicken a beautiful tail. We take an oval cake with a thickness of 0.7-1 cm as a basis. We make the plumage with a vegetable cutter. Cut off the edges of the tail with a knife to resemble a feather pattern. We make the cuts neat, smoothing them with your fingers. Attach the tail to the body of the chicken. Tuck something under your tail, such as a ball or an apple. After the product dries up, remove the apple.

Roll up a round head ball. We decorate the scallop, with fingers and a stack, giving it the desired look.

To make the eyes, you need to outline their place. We make a stack of dents for the eyes. Next, we make dents with a vegetable peeler so that the eye becomes curly.

Insert a pea of ​​pepper instead of the pupil. We make a beak and sculpt it to the head.

We fasten the head and torso, putting the head on a toothpick. We attach a small strip of dough to stabilize the head. Decorate the chicken neck with dough feathers. You can make a chicken "earrings" from pieces of dough.

We sculpt chickens in the same way. Do not forget to wet the parts for better fastening.

We leave the product to dry for 1-2 days, putting them in a distant place, you can even on the closet. In a day or two, when the chickens and chicken harden, we finally complete the work: we plant the figures on leaves, moistening the middle with water. Leave in the air for 1-2 days. We dry the products first in the air, and then put them in the oven with a temperature of 50 degrees for 1 hour. After drying, paint with paints and cover with colorless varnish.

Another option: figurines from dough: we sculpt Easter bunnies, chickens, chickens. You can make fridge magnets out of them, or you can hang them on pussy willow branches.

The fastest gift option is colored paper napkins and ribbons. We twist the boiled egg into a napkin and tie it with a ribbon. Can be replaced with corrugated paper.

You can crochet such a funny interesting Easter chicken.

For work you will need:

  1. Yellow yarn, 100% cotton or 50/50,
  2. Some orange and white yarn.
  3. Hook number 3.

We start knitting from the body. First 7 rows:

1st - 8 RLS knit in a loop with amigurs
2nd - we knit in each loop 2 RLS (16 RLS)
3rd - 1 sc, 2 sc, and so on (24 sc)
4th - add in every third loop: 2 sc, 2 sc (32 sc)
5th - in each 4 p. Add: 3 sc, 2 sc (40 sc)
6th - in each 5 p. Add: 4 sc, 2 sc (48 sc)
7th - in each 6 p. Add: 5 sc, 2 sc (56 sc)

15th - knit 5th and 6th sts together (40 PRS)
16th - knit 2 rows without decreasing (40 PRS)
18th - knit for a decrease in the 4th and 5th sts together (32 PRS)
19th - no decrease (32 PRS)

We fill the chicken with cotton wool or padding polyester.

20th - we knit every 2nd and 3rd st. Together (16 PRS)
21st - we knit every two loops together (8 RLS)
Cut off the thread and carefully sew up the hole.

Wings (2 wings):

  • 1st - we collect 7 air. loops with yellow yarn, 1 sc in the second loop from the hook, 4 sc, 3 sc in one loop, 4 sc, conn. NS.
  • 2nd - 1 VP, 4 RLS, two times 2 RLS in one p., 3 RLS in one loop, twice 2 RLS in one loop, conn. NS.
  • 3rd - 1 VP, 1 RLS in each loop
  • 4th - 1 VP, 1 connection. n. in each loop

We knit legs with orange yarn:

  • 1st - 2 VP, 6 sc in the second loop from the hook (6 sc)
  • 3rd - we make an increase in every second point (18 PRS)
  • 4th - row unchanged (18 PRS)

Beak (1 piece)

1st - we collect 5 VP, 1 SBN in the 2nd loop from the hook, half-column, 1 CCH, and 1 CC2H

Eyes (2 parts)

  • 1st - 6 sc in a loop with amigurs (6 sc)
  • 2nd - we make an increase in each loop (12 PRS)
  • 3rd - we make an increase in every 2nd loop (18 RLS)

    • For work you will need:

    • The beads are different (the colors are indicated next to the diagrams).
    • 2 meters of thin fishing line or nylon thread.
    • 2 beading needles.

    We start weaving from the central row from number 1 to number 2, then we perform each part separately at different ends of the fishing line, use the table.

    In the egg weaving pattern, notice the double rows (12 and 13 at the top, 13 and 14 at the bottom). At the chicken-shaped keychain in the upper part, we first weave the right wing (numbers from 5 to 9), and then the left wing (numbers from 10 to 16). Next, we move on to the design of the head (numbers 17 to 40).

    What can be Easter without Easter cake, Easter eggs, souvenirs and angels? These are the original Easter angels you can make with your own hands from regular pasta... There can be any pasta: stars, horns, spirals, noodles. These angels can be hung on a willow twig or placed in an Easter basket.

    For work you will need:

  1. Pasta.
  2. Ribbons or sticks.
  3. Thermal gun or glue Moment.
  4. PVA glue.
  5. Salted dough balls.

Using a glue gun, connect the head (dough ball) to the body. Next, glue the ribbon on the back. Select the pasta wings and glue on top of the braid.

Densely spread the angel's head with PVA glue and put it in fine vermicelli or asterisks. This is the "hair" of an angel.

Use fishnet pasta for your hands. Apply glue thickly on the sides, near the wings and glue.

We paint with either simple golden paint or aerosol paint.

If you want to insert them into an Easter basket, insert a stick inside the pasta body and glue, the crafts are ready.

Hello, dear readers! :) And how do you like this idea of ​​a festive Easter decor in the form of flat painted eggs made of salted dough? :) on them we can definitely practice our creativity :) From such blanks you can very nicely complement the festive decoration of the room :) And the small subtleties of making improved salted dough and sculpting eggs and a very beautiful stand for eggs in the form of an Easter chicken you can study below.

This master class was kindly shared by the artisan Amy Christie.

It is snowing here in Latvia, everything is white, but I really want bright colors! at least in our works we can fill this gap :))

and will help us in creating such original blanks - salted dough.

if you live in a private house, can you imagine how beautiful a tree decorated with such colorful eggs will look? :) But you can bring a large branch into the house, put it in a floor vase and decorate with such colorful crafts that you can do with yours children :) every year as the tree grows, you will replenish it with new creative masterpieces of the whole family :) You can even sign personalized eggs, glue fragments of napkins on them and even cover them with gold leaf. it's a matter of your taste :) but you can sculpt flowers, silhouettes of animals, or anything on top of these flat blanks! An excellent springboard for a flight of fantasy :))

It's time to start studying the master class:

you will need:

Salty dough
- rolling pin
- ruler for measuring the thickness of the dough
- spatula, knife
- a cocktail straw that we use to make holes
- parchment, or baking paper
- acrylic paints
- paint pen, optional
- transparent sealant
- twine or ribbons

First, prepare the salted dough:

This standard recipe we'll improve a little:

For high-quality kneading plastic dough salt should be very small - for example "Extra", and flour sifted .. Mix thoroughly these two ingredients together and add to them 2 tablespoons of wallpaper glue, and if you want to sculpt fine details, then first add to the water 2 tablespoons of starch(preferably corn) and boil to a paste state, and if you want larger parts, then add to the stirred mixture of salt, flour and wallpaper glue water and knead the dough thoroughly. In the process of mixing, add a little vegetable oil, but not more than 2 tablespoons.. Oil can be changed baby cream or baby oil, lubricating your hands while kneading. If the dough starts to crumble, add a little water. Indicator correct test is such an analysis - in the rolled ball we make several indentations with our finger, if they retain their shape, then the dough is ready! Let me remind you that you can do this master class with your children. To make the dough smell delicious, add a little vanilla :)

It is necessary to store such a dough in the refrigerator and before rolling out the dough, keep it in the refrigerator for a while so that it rested and acquired a homogeneous plastic mass. Let's start rolling the dough on parchment paper!

On the rolled dough with a round mold or glass, squeeze the circles out. Remove the excess dough, and begin to squeeze out the hole with straws, while slightly pulling the shape in this place. The dough is stretched to form an egg.

Bake at 250F for 2 hours.


dried workpieces can be spray-painted, or painted on with acrylic, initially covered with acrylic primer.

When the background is dry, it's time to start painting in color.

We make a string or ribbon into the hole and tie a knot to make a loop for hanging.

It remains to hang them on a branch, or you can hang them in the form of a garland. Bows will be a very beautiful delicate addition.

based on materials from the site-already! designmom.com

As an idea for decorating such eggs, you can borrow from the pastry chefs :) Look at how delicately and festively decorated the cookies. Why not an idea for a salty dough? :))

and finally, the promised photo master class on sculpting an original egg holder in the form of an Easter chicken.

You can see the entire series of Easter egg decor I have collected in my diary under the heading DECOUPAGE - Easter decoupage and decor.

Successful creativity to you and original ideas for embodiment!

Our preparation with my sons continues and this time we decided to do molded from salt dough... And what we put on you will find out right now ...
Materials:

  • Salted dough (recipe)
  • Toothpicks and spatulas
  • Gouache paints
  • Brush
  • PVA glue

Easter bunny and chicken souvenirs:


Let's start with the chicken, roll out the ball, flatten and shape the egg, glue the legs, beak and scallop. Be sure to coat all parts with glue. Insert the spatula and leave to dry.


With the bunny, we did not trick anything, we used a cookie mold and inserted a spatula.


We dry the figures and paint.
Egg stand:


We sculpt two details: we make the first with a recess for an egg, and the second we make with cuts that resemble leaves.


We glue the parts, dry and paint.
Another stand:

We take a jar, we had it from rastishka. Cover with dough, make small cuts, cover the upper part with balls of dough.

Put foam in the middle.


Roll out the dough and cut out a rectangle, the curly edges are made using a device for pasties. Glue the rectangle onto the jar.

And it will complement and decorate the jar with a flower with petals and balls. We leave the stand to dry.


Next, we paint the stand, after the paint dries on top, we form something like a nest of threads. Well, that's all, the egg holder is ready.
Hen


With a chicken, everything is very simple. We roll the torso together with the head. We sculpt and glue the scallop, beak and wings separately. We dry and paint the product.


Topiary with salt dough elements:


For manufacturing, we needed additional materials: a plastic ball, a disposable glass (beer), threads, artificial greenery and flowers, beads, a glue gun.
While my son was sculpting parts for a bunny and an egg from salted dough, I proceeded to the tree itself.


We take several spats, wrap with threads or paste over with corrugated paper. Pour gypsum diluted with water into a beer glass and insert spatulas and herbs. Let the plaster harden, then coat with glue and sprinkle with beads. And we wrap the glass with threads.