Crafts from salt dough. Christmas crafts and Christmas tree toys made of salt dough

Master class with step by step photo"New Year's gifts" in the technique of modeling from salt dough.

Author: Galanova Daria, 9 years old student of MBU DO DDiU association "Salty fantasies", Millerovo
Teacher: Nazarova Tatyana Nikolaevna, teacher of additional education MBU DO DDiU, Millerovo

The master class is very simple in complexity, it may be useful for kindergarten teachers of senior and preparatory groups. In this case, you can pre-cut the blanks of snowmen and mittens from the dough. Dry them, and in the classroom, invite the children to make the rest of the moldings. The master class will also be interesting
everyone who loves to sculpt from salt dough. Make gifts for friends and loved ones. And also for teachers of additional education, primary school teachers, teachers of extended day groups.
Purpose: New Year gifts.
Target: creation of New Year's gifts using the technique of molding from salt dough.
Tasks:
Educational: master the technique of making gifts from salt dough;
Developing: develop accuracy in modeling, artistic thinking;
Educational: encourage the desire to give new Year gifts made with your own hands;

Required material:
Paper napkin, a stack, a glass of water, "Extra" salt, premium flour, cutting for dough "snowman" 10.5 x 6 cm, photo frame, colored paper, floral mesh "snow", "small mitten" 5 x 2.5 cm cocktail tube, ballpoint pen without paste, rolling pin, pencil.
Salty dough recipe:
Combine 1 cup flour and 0.5 cups salt. Stir, make a hole. Gradually pour in 1 glass in a thin stream cold water... Knead tight elastic dough... Store the dough in a plastic bag.
Snow recipe
In a small saucepan, combine 2 tablespoons of water and 1 teaspoon potato starch... Stir and put on low heat. At the same time, stir constantly. As soon as the mixture becomes transparent, remove it from the stove and immediately add 1 glass of Extra salt. First with a spoon, and as soon as the mixture cools down a little, you can stir it with your hands. The snow is ready. Transfer it to a plastic bag and close it securely. It is important that no air enters the package.
Progress:

Roll out the dough 5-7 mm thick. Cut out the snowman with a cookie cutter and transfer to a paper towel.

Mark the eyes with a pencil, push your mouth with a stack. With a stack, make a mark for yourself where you glue the snowman's hat.

Form a cake out of a small lump of dough. Cut it in half. Moisten the snowman's head with water and glue the hat on. We glue all the elements of the composition with cold water. Roll up a small, thin flagellum and glue it onto the hat. We sculpt a fur hat. Form a ball from a small lump and glue a bell.

Form a very small carrot and glue the spout to the snowman.

Roll up a thin flagellum and glue a scarf to the snowman.

From small, identical lumps, form two lumps similar to beans and glue the legs.

Using a ballpoint pen without paste, push the buttons down the snowman's center.

From a lump the size of a large plum, form a gift box and glue a snowman on the hand. It turns out that the snowman is holding a gift in his hands. Glue the gift more tightly so that after the craft dries, it does not fall off.
The snowman is ready, we start sculpting mittens.

Roll out the dough 3-4 mm thick. Cut out two small mittens.

Stack the cuffs on the mittens. Make holes with a cocktail tube.

Blind a very small snowman on one of the mittens.

On the second mitten, glue the Christmas tree and toy balls.
So quickly we made mittens.
Place the snowman and mittens on a sunny windowsill. In the air, crafts are dried for about 5-7 days. Although the mittens will of course dry out in a couple of days, since they are not as bulky as a snowman.
The crafts are dry. Paint them with paints, cover with glossy varnishes.
We glue the snowman in a frame, decorate with glitter. Spread a layer of PVA glue under the snowman's legs, put "snow". Tighten it lightly. Once the glue is dry, the "snow" will adhere firmly. Such "snow" can be stored for a couple of days in a plastic bag.
The snowman is ready.
Pass the tape through the mittens. Decorate with glitter
Gifts for the New Year are ready.

Happy New Year!

Safronova Tatiana Arkadyevna, State Budgetary Educational Institution "School with in-depth study of individual subjects No. 1248" structural subdivision No. 6 (kindergarten No. 1933), educator, Moscow.
Description: The material can be useful for kindergarten teachers, primary school teachers, and parents. Working with salt dough promotes the development of fine motor skills of the hands, develops creativity and imagination.

Christmas toys made of salt dough

On New Year you always want to please your loved ones with something unusual. And the teacher is faced with the task of what gifts to prepare with children for their parents. Everyone knows that children with great pleasure present gifts made with their own hands. I decided to turn to an old tradition that is actively reviving in our time. In ancient times in Russia it was customary to give figurines made of salted dough for the New Year. Such figures were called "hospitable", as it was believed that they bring satiety and well-being into the house. If there is bread and salt in the house, namely, dough was made from flour and salt, you will not stay hungry. A tradition arose in poor families, where there was nothing to pamper the children on the New Year's holiday. The poor guessed to mold figures from dough - flour and water, and began to give them to each other. And to prevent mice from gnawing toys, they began to add a lot of salt to the dough. And so it appeared salty dough.
Salted dough is an excellent material for sculpting: plastic, environmentally friendly, safe, does not stick to hands, can be easily washed off with water. Great alternative plasticine, and figures from salted dough can be painted.
In the preparatory group, I started making Christmas tree decorations from salt dough with my children, and I suggest you try it too.
To prepare the dough, we need:
- 2 cups wheat flour
- 1 glass of extra salt
- 1 glass of cold water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Mix flour and salt, gradually add water and vegetable oil. Knead the dough for about ten to fifteen minutes. Place the dough in a plastic bag, otherwise it will dry out and cover with a crust. To make the dough more plastic, and our crafts do not crack on the side cuts, keep the dough in the refrigerator for about two hours before use. For our crafts, we do not use all the dough, but only a small part of it. The leftover dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week (the dough will take on a gray tint with longer storage).
Working with the test:
Pinch off a lump of dough of the required size, place on cardboard (I recommend using thick cardboard to avoid deformation of the product during drying). Roll out the dough with a rolling pin about 5 mm thick and cut out the figures using cookie cutters (stars, Christmas trees, hearts, etc.) or templates made from cardboard. Place the template on the rolled dough and cut out the shapes in a stack. You can roll sausages out of dough and fold them, for example, into a snowflake. Use water to join the parts, moisten the gluing with a brush and connect them.

It is convenient to make a hole for the ribbon with a straw for drinks, but other items such as a match, stick, brush are also suitable.
How to dry:
Place your figurines to dry directly on the cardboard next to the radiator in a warm place. They will be ready for further work in five days. It all depends on the thickness of the product: one millimeter takes one day. At the same time, the products retain their color, which is convenient for coloring. There is another way to dry crafts - in the oven, but under conditions kindergarten this is not possible and, besides, after the oven the product acquires the color of a baked pie.
Decoration:
You can make prints directly on the test. Any small embossed objects (buttons, braid) are suitable for prints. To get a print, press it on a figurine cut out of dough. You can roll the dough through a crocheted napkin - we will also get a beautiful embossed pattern, then cut out the figures with molds.

When our stars, hearts, Christmas trees are dry, you can paint them with gouache or leave their natural color. Glitter can be used to decorate toys. They can be used to sprinkle toys over paint until it is dry. If you want to use multi-colored glitter, wait until the paint dries, apply the pattern with glue, sprinkle the glitter over the glue.

We also used confectionery sprinkles to decorate our toys. Apply the glue first, and then sprinkle the glue on top of the glue. It turned out very colorful.

It remains only to thread the ribbons into the hole, and the Christmas tree decorations are ready! These are the wonderful gifts the guys presented to their parents on the New Year's holiday! The process of working with salted dough is creative and exciting, everyone was satisfied: both adults and children! I highly recommend giving it a try.

Do you know New Year is just around the corner? It seems today that it's still autumn on the calendar, and you will be in time for everything, and tomorrow - bang-bang! - and winter has come, and time is running out. Yes, it's time to hurry up if you want to decorate the tree this year. Christmas toys made of salt dough! This is a completely accessible project that matches the contents of the family pocket 100% and completely matches your handicraft skills. Well, seriously - all the necessary materials can be found at home (and if not, then most likely we will talk about paints, but they can be bought at the nearest stall, and if a package of gouache or a couple of tubes of acrylic is not currently included in your financial plans, you can refuse altogether from painting toys and making them in such an emphasized eco-style), and even a child can roll out the dough and cut circles out of it with a glass (yeah, you don’t want circles? It means that your handicraft skills have stepped a little beyond the level of a beginner Pithecanthropus, and you are quite will be able to do New Year's miracles at the advanced level).

In general, fewer words, more action: - the most complete step by step guide with photo evidence, go under the cut and study it carefully. Join also New Year's marathon "Handmade Runet" VKontakte and show your finished toys in the topic of the co-worker... Waiting for you!

Step 1 - dough

There is nothing difficult, the main rule is intuition. And even if the word "about" does not scare you, everything will work out.

Let's start with the fact that there are recipes on the Web - wagons and carts loaded with a slide. And all the very best, of course, are the best, proven, accurate and generally practically guarantee that New Year's toys from salt dough will be made by themselves, dry up and jump on the tree. We urge you to believe everyone, but do it your own way - listening to your intuition. We tell and show in pictures.

Necessary:

1/2 cup of "Extra" fine salt;

1/2 glass of water

1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;

about 2.5 cups flour.

We measure out the salt. Many sources write that it should be the most common small "Extra" and necessarily not iodized-fluorinated. Yeah, maybe there is. But the author of the master class does not have non-iodized salt at home and, as you yourself understand, her common sense does not allow leaving the house in the nasty frost and disgusting slush to find non-iodized salt in the thirty-eighth supermarket. Believe me, with the one that is at hand, for some reason it also works.

Yes, for haters of such a measure of volume as half a glass, we clarify: weighed, it turned out that salt was exactly 170 g.

If you don't have a food processor, you're out of luck - you have to play with your hands. Pour salt into the bowl in which you usually knead the dumplings. If you are a chicken with a harvester, pour into the bowl of the harvester.

We measure out the water. Yes, half a glass. Happened 130 g water.

Bulk - to her salt, let them be friends.

Vegetable oil - to the same company. By the way, you can do it - if you are a greedy person and do not want to translate precious olive oil for some New Year's toys, and you didn't have cheap industrial palm and rapeseed in your home, don't add it at all. Butter is needed for the dough to be slightly more elastic than it would be without oil, that's all. By the way, if you suddenly feel the urge to show miracles of unprecedented generosity and pour half a glass of butter into the dough at once (and why waste time on trifles, we measure everything with glasses here!), We warn you: this dough will dry until next New Year. So you better be greedy. Or think about the golden mean and add a spoon, just one tablespoon of oil.

Now is the time to turn on your intuition. Add flour. We immediately measure the glass (the scales said that it came out 160 g flour).

And into its water, right into the salt water.

Stir - it turns out thick, thick sour cream. You can't mold anything out of it! The photo is a little unclear, but the meaning is 100% clear - there is little flour, you don't have to be a professor of salt-toy business to understand this.

Therefore, we boldly add another spoonful of flour, full-full ( plus 20 g flour).

We mix. Nothing like that, it already looks like something.

But in fact - not enough: the dough sticks to your hands and with all its appearance speaks of a personal unwillingness to turn into Christmas tree decorations.

Add another spoon ( plus 20 g flour).

Oh, this is already beautiful - the dough has gathered in a ball, nothing sticks to the walls.

We check - everything is in order in our hands, too.

Well, almost completely - nevertheless, some tiny particles still stick to your hands, so you can play it safe and knead another teaspoon of the dry component (plus 5 g of flour). Extremely intuitive.

By the way, the longer you knead, the better the flour gluten will develop and the easier it will be to work with the dough - so let the combine work hard, it won't be superfluous.

We check with our fingers - nothing sticks at all, the indentations in the dough do not blur, the pits "keep" their shape. It is worth stopping at this - an excess of flour will negatively affect the products, they will crumble, in the work such a dough is very, very nasty and complex.

One last test just in case - everything is fine.

Next - a proprietary secret: take a lump of dough and throw it with force on the table. Pull up again and drop again. Once again. And so - until you get bored, but at least 10-15 times - this way you will make it homogeneous, more elastic, pleasant and smooth.

Everything can be wrapped in a bag so that the dough does not wind up while you prepare for the second stage.

By the way, many sources say that the dough needs to mature, they suggest wrapping it in three rolls cling film and hide in the refrigerator for at least a day, or better - almost a month. Vraki! No, of course, nothing bad will happen if you have a week in stock and you let the test lie down, but if you are impatient to work with it right now, if you cannot refuse your inspiration, then you don’t need to - let's do it right away !

Step 2 - cutting out the figures

This is perhaps the most interesting stage of the work - creative, creative, "clean" and simple.

There are three paths to walk.

The first is not to cut figures out of salt dough, but to sculpt - remembering school labor lessons or Roni Oren's books, puff and try. In general, this is a very worthwhile and curious option, but on one condition: if the level of your skills is such that, when you are going to sculpt an elephant, you at least get a cat, and not, swinging a crooked hatchet, claim that this is actually a sleigh Santa Claus, then, of course, you can try.

The second is to print from the Internet or draw templates of flat New Year's toys yourself (Christmas balls, a sack of Santa Claus, bells-bells, stars-icicles, and then, following exclusively the call of love for art, apply templates to the dough, carefully and almost jewelry cut them from using a knife, making sure to be especially careful when cornering: one awkward movement -

The third is not to reinvent the wheel and not discover America, but just take cookie cutters and cutters for working with mastic and, resorting to their help, cut something simple, accessible and themed. With a special passion for creativity, you should reassure yourself with the hope that your needs will be fully realized at the stage of painting and painting.

So, put a small piece of dough (we hide the rest in a bag, don't relax) on a surface lightly floured.

We roll it out as you want, the main thing is evenly, while remembering that the thicker the toy is, the longer it will take to dry it. The optimal size is 3 mm: it will not break, but it will dry quickly.

Of course, not themselves: the use of child labor at this stage is encouraged and encouraged in every possible way. Mom needs to drink coffee sometime!

With a properly organized work process, everything will be done quickly and efficiently.

Do not forget to immediately make holes for future strings, which will help hang the toys from the tree.

Or a lot of holes - for reliability: so that there is exactly what to catch on to.

Please note that some cookie cutters leave "shreds" on the cut - if they are thin and small, they do not need to be removed, they will fall off during the drying process, and if it is more nutritious, then it is better to spend another five minutes and carefully cut everything off.

The output of products from the specified proportions.

Step 3 - drying

And here you have to slow down. If you want to cope with the task of making New Year's toys from salt dough in one day, you need to dry the products in the oven at the lowest temperature. Depending on the thickness of the toys, you will need 3-7 hours - put everything on a baking sheet, turn on the oven at 50-70 degrees, do not forget about the fan and wait, periodically opening the door to "release" moisture and occasionally turning the figures from side to side.

A simpler approach is to spread the toys out on a piece of parchment paper and leave them alone for a few days. Depending on the room temperature, you will need 3-5 days for the salt dough figurines to dry completely. Once a day, they must be turned over to the other side - you will see how the color of the toy will change during the drying process: the wet spot in the middle will be yellower than the white dried edges.

Do not try to speed up the drying process of toys - they will either burn out (yes, this is possible!), Or become very deformed. Be patient, go for a walk, shake your abs, cook homemade marshmallows - in general, anything, just not to rush things.

Well-dried products are uniform in color, do not wrinkle or bend, light and pleasant.

Step 4 - painting and decorating

Do you need to tell something? Take acrylic, gouache or even watercolor, contours and varnishes, multi-colored rhinestones and beads, brushes and sticks, toothpicks and cotton pads, forks and markers, pencils and needles - everything that one way or another can be adapted for drawing.

And draw. Paint. Be creative. Decorate. Get creative. Create. Gush. Create. All in your hands.

It is convenient to immediately hang painted toys on all protruding parts of the house - for drying.

And the final decoration is after the first layer of paint has dried.

A very wonderful tool - spray paint: quick and easy. Lays down evenly, dries instantly, labor costs are minimal.

Children's creativity - it is so ... childish and wonderful!

Salted dough figurines can be used as Christmas decorations, as a decoration for self-wrapped gifts, and as figurines for other projects, such as Advent calendars.

Indispensable attribute new year's eve Is a festive tree decorated with your own hand. To do this, you can use any options: a garland, tinsel, pendants made of plastic or glass, and, of course, Christmas tree decorations made of salt dough.

Salted dough is one of the most accessible and understandable materials used in modern art. Crafts of any complexity can be sculpted from it, so it is suitable as a working material for any age category.

How to make salt dough with your own hands?

The dough recipe is simple, and there are components for its execution in almost any home.

Required Ingredients:

• 2 cups of the simplest, wheat flour;
• 1 cup fine salt
• 250 ml of boiled cold water.

All dry ingredients are mixed with each other and, after adding water, are kneaded into elastic and soft dough... During the preparation process, a little vegetable oil is added to the whole mass (a couple of large spoons), so that the prepared dough does not stick to your hands, does not dry out quickly and does not become covered with a crust while working with it.

How to sculpt toys from dough?

When the dough is ready, you can start the sculpting process itself.
To do this, you will need cookie cutters, a rolling pin for rolling out the dough, a brush, if you need to moisten future figures with water to attach accessories, cocktail tubes for piercing holes and all kinds of accessories for decoration.

Roll out a small layer of the prepared mass and cut out, using curly molds, future Christmas tree dough toys.
Dry the resulting products in an oven preheated to 55-80 ° C, keeping them on a baking sheet covered with parchment for an hour. And after the products are completely dry, start decorating them using all kinds of materials.

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How to decorate dough toys?

There are a huge number of ways to decorate a future toy, and here everything depends only on personal taste preferences and imagination.

You can use beads to decorate the craft by laying out a certain pattern on the future Christmas tree toy or filling the entire surface of the product cut from the dough with them. True, in this case, it will no longer be possible to dry the craft in the oven, since the beads will simply melt from the high temperature. Here you will have to use the natural drying method, leaving the finished work in an open space for 3-4 days.

Instead of beads, you can use cereals different varieties, shells, seeds, twigs and leaves of trees, dried berries, buttons, as well as sequins or confetti, applied to the dried toy with glue.

Crafts made of salted dough, decorated with patterns drawn with permanent felt-tip pens, look very stylish. To prevent the images on the test from smearing, fix the drawings or inscriptions applied with markers with colorless varnish.

And the easiest way to make a future toy unusual and unique is to put a print of your child's hand or foot on it, marking the date of the craft's manufacture on it. Such a touching souvenir can even be presented as a gift to grandparents.

You can use special pattern stamps instead of body parts. Such things are easy to buy in children's stores or in specialized outlets where goods for creativity and needlework are sold. DIY Christmas decorations made of salt dough, made in a similar way, look quite interesting and original.

And for those who are bored with making simple crafts, you can try to go even further and make a voluminous Christmas tree toy from salt dough, in the form of some kind of animal: a hedgehog, a bird or a dog, for example. To do this, it is necessary to first think over its image and structure in the future product, then make the main frame of the body, using a ball of paper or foil for this, filling the inner space of the volumetric toy with it, and only then select and add the missing details. For example, beaded eyes or a pom-pom nose. Here, again, there is a lot of room for the embodiment of creative ideas.

An owl will be an excellent decoration for the Christmas tree.

Finished voluminous craft you need to dry it thoroughly in a natural way or using a preheated oven, if, of course, there are no beads or paper in the decoration of the toy, and then decorate and cover the dried product with two layers of colorless varnish so that the toy does not crack and the paint on it does not fade from the glint located next to her, lit garlands.

DIY dough toys are not only unusual decorations for the holiday tree, making the main beauty of the holiday unique and beautiful, but also a wonderful way to spend time with your family, which brings everyone together and unites in a single creative process.

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Christmas tree made of salted dough. Step-by-step instruction with photo

Salt dough modeling for schoolchildren.

Master class "Yolochka"

This work is intended for teachers and parents, as well as for school-age children.
Target: teach to sculpt a Christmas tree from salted dough.
Tasks:
- teach how to knead and color the dough;
- to teach how to make needles by cutting salt dough with scissors;
- develop hand motor skills,
- develop creativity.

Required material:
- 1 glass of flour,
- 0.5 cups of fine salt,
- 0.5 cups of water
- container and spoon,
- gouache,
- beads, beads, sequins,
- stapler,
- cardboard.

Course of the lesson:

Guess the riddle:
Needles grow on it
Thick and prickly
And the cones are resinous,
Sticky, fragrant.
She is on New Year's Eve
Will come to visit us!
Slim, fluffy
With golden lights

Today we will sculpt a Christmas tree from salted dough and decorate it with decorations. There is a very beautiful song from the cartoon "New Year's Tale" Lyrics: I. Shaferan

Herringbone, Christmas tree - forest scent
Herringbone, Christmas tree -
Forest scent.
She really needs
Nice outfit.
Let this Christmas tree
During the holiday hour
With every needle
Pleases us
Pleases us.

Stages of work

1. Take half a glass of water and pour it into a container. Pour half a glass of fine salt and mix well. Gradually add flour to the consistency of a batter.

2. Add green gouache and stir to make a green batter.

3. Gradually add the remaining flour and mix.

4. Dump the resulting mass on the table and knead the dough with your hands. The dough should be plastic, should not stick and crumble in your hands. If the dough sticks, then add a little flour, if the dough crumbles, then add a little water.

5. Cut a semicircle out of cardboard. Roll out the layer from the resulting dough and cut out a semicircle from the dough using a template.

6. Use a stapler to fold the template into a cone.

7. Carefully wrap the cone in a semicircle made of salt dough and glue the seam with water, slightly moistened with a brush. Gently smooth the seam with your finger.

8. Take scissors with sharp ends and begin to cut the needles in rows. It is better not to lift the Christmas tree so that the dough does not slip, and keep the scissors at an angle of 30 degrees. You need to cut the needle from the top row.

9. Knead the dough for decoration and paint it with gouache in different colors. Proportions: 0.5 glass of water; 0.5 cups of salt and a glass of flour.

10. We make a star out of red dough and glue it with water.

11.You can decorate the tree different ways... The first method: we sculpt many colorful balls, toys from colored dough and glue them on the Christmas tree with the help of water.

12. The second way: decorate the tree with beads, beads, sequins, which we just gently press into the dough. They hold well without glue, but if the beads fall off after drying, then you can glue them with varnish or glue.

13. When the tree is dry, it can be varnished or glossy for children's creativity... The Christmas tree is ready!

14. Works of my students!