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Easter dough crafts for children. Party Favors and Decor: Salted Dough Easter Eggs

Holy Easter is one of the most anticipated holidays of the year. Both adults and children are looking forward to it. And the main reason for this is not only the religious significance of this day, but also delicious treats that every family prepares on this important day.

We would like to bring to your attention a do-it-yourself master class on making dough crafts for Easter.

Easter basket

To make an Easter basket out of yeast dough, you need to take the following ingredients for baking:

  • fresh yeast - 2.5g
  • warm water - 1/2 cup
  • milk - 1/2 cup
  • eggs - 1-2 pcs (one for dough, one for greasing)
  • sugar - 1/4 cup
  • salt - 1/2 tsp
  • olive oil - 1/4 cup
  • flour - 4 cups

By using phased photos making such an interesting craft from dough for Easter will not be difficult.

Let's start:

1. In a glass container (preferably with deep edges), it is necessary to combine milk with water. Mix two tablespoons of water with milk and add yeast. Stir well and leave to brew for a few minutes.


2. Beat an egg, add the mixture of milk, water and yeast to it, then add olive oil, salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly until smooth.


3. Add flour to the resulting mass. First you need to add half a glass, stir, then gradually add the remaining amount of flour.


5. The next step is to twist ready dough into rollers. Use heat-resistant material as a form for weaving. glassware or a cake pan. And before you start applying the dough, you need to wrap it in foil.



7. Apply the resulting strips evenly to the mold, connecting at the top. On average, 14-15 flagella per form are obtained. Now you need to put something heavy and round on top of the harnesses to make the bottom (you can take a glass bowl)



9. In a separate bowl, mix one egg, a tablespoon of milk and a little olive oil... Lubricate the entire basket of dough with this mixture.

10. Place the basket on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper in an oven preheated to 180-190 degrees. We bake for 20 minutes. The dough should take on a golden brownish appearance.

11. When you take the basket out of the oven and remove it from the baking sheet, a trace of dough and dishes will remain on the paper. A pigtail of the same size should be made on it. This will be the border for our Easter basket. You will need a wire to make a handle. We measure the required length, wrap the wire with foil, and on top with dough.


12. Do not wait for the dough to rise, but immediately put it in the oven.

13. Attach the finished edging with toothpicks, insert the handle in the same way.

The Easter basket is ready! Now you can decorate it with a napkin, ribbons and put Easter cakes and other Easter treats in it.

Crafts for Easter from salted dough: eggs-krashanki

To prepare these crafts, you need to take the following ingredients:


  • flour - 2 cups
  • salt - 1 glass
  • water - 1 glass
  • acrylic paints or gouache
  • egg-shaped mold
  • brushes for ornament decoration
  • hanging tape

If you don't have a suitable mold, you can easily make one yourself. You need to cut a strip from a plastic bottle and fasten it with tape, giving it an egg shape.


Let's start making crafts from the dough, with this photo will help us:

1. In a deep bowl (bowl) mix salt, water and flour, knead the dough.
2. Received salty dough roll out 1-1.5 cm thick.
3. With the help of egg-shaped molds we "squeeze out" eggs from our dough.
4. Using a rod from an old felt-tip pen or a pen, make holes for the tape in the resulting molds.
5. Put the resulting eggs from the dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper for quick drying. We put in the oven on a very low heat, do not forget to leave it ajar so that the blanks do not bubble.
6. After the crafts have dried and cooled down, paint them as you wish. Leave to dry.
7. We take a long ribbon of red or white colors - symbols of Easter, and thread it through the holes in our dye eggs.


We have got a wonderful craft from salted dough for Easter in the form of a garland.

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 ready 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.

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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.

On the eve of the most revered and long-awaited holiday of spring, the Resurrection of Christ, Orthodox Christians manually, with the investment of a piece of their soul, make traditional Easter attributes. The bright tradition of creating symbolic unique easter decorations and gifts is still alive.

Decorations and souvenirs for Easter are traditionally associated with the main symbols of this holiday: Easter eggs, dyes, Easter cakes, angels, wreaths, baskets and candles. Creating Easter trappings is a creative and fun process. Painted and painted eggs are the main symbol of the Resurrection of the Lord. According to the Orthodox tradition, it is with them that the breaking of the fast begins before the festive feast. On this day, Orthodox Christians exchange colorful eggs with wishes for good and happiness.

As a souvenir, it can be an excellent present that will remind you of its creator for many years. Spectacular eggs can be easily created from embroidery material. Foam blanks for these purposes are sold in retail outlets with handicraft goods. However, you can make them yourself.

You can take an empty eggshell as a basis for a souvenir, but because of its fragility, you will have to work very carefully with it. Such blanks are greased with glue and wrapped, trying to get a certain pattern. The finished product can be decorated with beads, beads, bugles, buttons, rhinestones or sequins.

Even a beginner will be able to turn foam blanks into a small masterpiece using ordinary sewing pins and sequins.

For this, the workpiece is pre-painted. Then pins with multi-colored heads are stuck into it, after putting on sequins. This method is very simple and convenient in the sense that it is always possible to correct errors in work.

Salty dough is ideal material for Easter favors

Salted dough can be considered an ideal raw material for creating unique handicrafts. After drying, it becomes very hard and can be stored for many years. From this material, you can create original candlesticks, fancy coasters, souvenir crafts in the form of eggs, cakes and extravagant wreaths decorated with leaves and flowers, echoing the festive spring mood.

To prepare salty stucco dough, you will need the following.

To prepare a stucco mass, you need to mix salt with flour and dilute cold water... Knead elastic dough(it is better to use a mixer), gradually introducing vegetable oil into the mixture. A well-mixed mass should be completely homogeneous. It is good to keep the finished material for modeling in the refrigerator for a while, and after that it can already be used for modeling.

You can color the stucco mass even during kneading by adding food coloring, egg paint, beetroot or carrot juice or gouache. And you can paint ready-made figures using the same gouache or spray paint. However, in this case, it is necessary to paint the products only after they are completely dry. There are two options for drying crafts: in the oven (at a temperature of 80C) or on a central heating battery.

You can store the remains of the stucco material for several days in a sealed container in the refrigerator.

Volumetric and flat options for crafts

Modeling a bulky egg will require a base to dry the product faster. For this purpose, you can use empty eggshells, a wad of foil, or plastic inside from a kinder surprise. There is a reason to make blanks in advance so that they have time to dry well. You can also make a stand in advance for a future souvenir.

The finished salted mass must be sculpted on top of the existing base, while forming an egg. This is followed by drying, after which you can apply the desired pattern to the craft, decorate it with stucco figures, beads, feathers, etc. It is advisable to varnish the finished product so that over time the dough does not lose its hardness.

But even a child can handle making a flat one. Moreover, such crafts can decorate not only the house inside, but also hang them in the yard. Modeling flat souvenirs will additionally require the following materials:

  • rolling pin;
  • ruler for measuring the thickness of the rolled layer;
  • mold or stencil;
  • cocktail straw;
  • parchment;
  • twine or ribbons.

Roll out the dough on parchment to a thickness of 5 mm. Next, cut out the blanks of future souvenirs with a mold or stencil. Remove excess material and use cocktail tubes to make holes for the ribbon.

As a decoration for Easter eggs made of salted dough, if desired, you can apply a volumetric pattern using a lace or guipure napkin. You can draw a pattern with a sculpting stick. Or you can mold a volumetric composition from the remains of the stucco material and immediately fix it on the craft. This is left to the discretion and taste of the author of the work.

Dry the finished products and then paint with spray paint, a corrector pen or a brush. You can apply dry glitter over the paint. When the paint is dry, cover with varnish and wait until it is completely dry.

At the end of the work, thread ribbons or colored twine into the holes and hang the finished masterpieces on a homemade Easter tree, on the door, or give them to loved ones.

24 August 2015

Every year, in the spring, Orthodox people look forward to the bright holiday of Easter. According to the rules of the First Ecumenical Council, Orthodox Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the spring full moon (after or on the day of the vernal equinox). So Easter 2016 is celebrated on May 1, and 2017 on April 16, 2018 on April 8. They begin to prepare for the decoration of the house in advance.

We dedicate this master class to Easter and invite you to make easter home decor do it yourself. A decorative teapot and painted eggs will become a symbolic decoration. The execution technology is available even for novice "sculptors". Sculpt a voluminous composition with Easter motives we will from salted dough... Its recipe is quite simple, follow the description and you will succeed!

You can read more about working with salted dough in this article... In it you will find answers to many questions.

Materials: flour - 300 grams, salt - 400 grams, potato starch - 2 tablespoons, water - 150 milliliters, foil, food colors.


Stages of execution:

  • the dough is kneaded according to the recipe;
  • sculpting a teapot and eggs;
  • baking salty dough.

The process of making an Easter composition

1. Add salt to cold water. Stir until half of the salt grains dissolve.


2. Put flour, knead the tough dough.


3. The dough is spread on a cutting board, starch is poured on top. Starch is mixed into the dough, it provides elasticity and smoothness of the surface of future products.


4. The dough is divided into three parts, food coloring is added. To distribute the dyes evenly over the dough, first dissolve the paint grains in a few drops of water. Then the concentrated colored liquid is combined with the dough.


5. The dough is wrapped in foil and refrigerated. You can start working in an hour.


6. First, cakes are made. Tight thick cylinders are rolled from the foil, they will become the base of the toy baking. Evenly cover the foil with orange dough, align the edges. You should get cakes of an ideal shape.


7. White dough is used to mold icing sugar, close the top of the cakes with it. Form irregular picturesque "drips" of glaze. Eggs can be sculpted from dough of any color, because in the future they will have to be painted purple-red.


8. To dazzle a teapot, you have to put in more effort. The base is made of foil compressed into a lump. Then the side walls and the lid of the teapot are molded. A rigid frame is needed for the handle and spout. Nails are inserted at different angles into the base of the teapot. They have to pierce the foil and anchor in it. One nail is enough for a spout. The handle is made from two nails. They are inserted in parallel, and the edges are connected with a thin wire that can be bent figuratively.


9. The lid of the teapot is decorated with flowers, leaves, small figurines of birds.


10. To dazzle a flower, you need to roll out a thin strip of dough, and then roll it up in the form of a spiral. You will get a small pretty rose. The flower is placed on the lid of the teapot, then gently pressed in the center with a wooden skewer. The rose will assume an inclined position and firmly anchor on the form. Using a skewer, raise and bend the petals, giving them direction. Instead of a skewer, you can use nail scissors.

11. The figurines are baked in the oven for two hours, the door is not closed completely. The minimum temperature is set.

12. Baked Easter cakes do not need to be painted, they turn out to be very similar to the real one. Easter baked goods... The eggs are painted with acrylics, and a floral ornament is drawn on top with a thin brush.


13. The teapot is covered with a light blue color. A floral subject is chosen for the drawing. The tonal range should be soft pastel.


14. Easter composition will look great on an embroidered napkin.

Decoration at home for Easter has become a mandatory attribute in every family. Someone does textile birds, beaded eggs, dolls. Our interior composition from salted dough will be able to be outside the house, for example, on the street, on the veranda.
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Easter is a great and bright holiday, embodying the triumph of the Christian spirit, repentance coupled with hope and faith. In anticipation of the bright day of the Resurrection of Christ, everyone carefully prepares their cloisters for the meeting, cleaning and decorating everything around. I would like the soul and body to be clean and renewed. And the house delighted the eye with its freshness.

Actual jewelry

Every year everything more decorations appears in shops on the eve of the Bright Festival. Housewives are happy to decorate their "family nests", but there is nothing more valuable than handicrafts. The inhabitants of the house put their special mood, a certain message and energy into the most common element of decor.

The joint creation of decorations for Easter is especially valuable where there are little children. For example, DIY crafts for Easter made of salted dough will become a fun adventure for them and new knowledge of the approaching holiday. This moment brings the family together, helps to rally and create a sweet family tradition.

Especially loved by craftsmen and hand-made lovers easter crafts from salted dough with your own hands. This type of creativity is just beginning to conquer with its unsurpassed style and interesting execution technique, but it appeared a long time ago. This is a primordially Slavic custom, evidence of which can be seen even in folk tales... Recall, for example, the Kolobok, which the grandmother created, not at all thinking that the fate of this stucco molding would be so difficult. This fairytale hero can also be remembered in a conversation with the smallest members of the family. Easter crafts from salt dough for children will become unusual experience and immersion in a fairy tale.

This kind of creativity attracts with its technological simplicity combined with endless possibilities for the embodiment of their fantasies. It's hard to imagine more a budget option for crafts. In order to acquire material for creativity, not so much is needed.

Several recipes for quality puff pastry

Recipe number 1:

  • Flour (preferably wheat) - 1.5 cups;
  • Salt - 0.5 cups;
  • Water - 0.5 cups
  • Vegetable oil (preferably olive oil, to give the dough special elasticity) - 1 tsp.

Recipe number 2:

  • Wheat flour - 2 cups;
  • Glue (you can use any that is on the farm) - 1.5 tbsp.;
  • Salt - 3 cups;
  • Water - just under 2 glasses.

Recipe number 3:

  • Flour - 2 cups;
  • Water - about 1 glass;
  • Starch (will give a special texture to the future material) - 1 - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • Extra salt (pre-grind on a coffee grinder or in any other convenient way) - 1 glass;
  • Gouache (you can add immediately, and then refresh the finished product with new paint).

What can be made from salted dough for Easter

Nice to the touch, malleable and accessible material allows you to bring any idea to life. The Easter theme is unusually extensive. Time, inspiration, material and idea for the future craft: that's all you need.

You can create a whole picture with your own volumetric plot, decorate it with bright colors or leave it in minimalist pastels. Various themed figures (angels, cute animals, futuristic flowers, etc.) will decorate with themselves and festive table, and a shelf in the house. On the eve of Easter, the creation of unusual eggs with a volumetric pattern, stands for traditional krashanki, Christian symbols.

Easter crafts made from salt dough for children should be themed and accessible. They allow fantasy to play out with special force. Parents can allow their child to come up with their own image and independently embody it in the test. It is worth helping a child when he wants to get help. Such activities will stimulate the development of creative abilities, enrich the child's tactile sensations, and improve fine motor skills of the fingers.

Where to start

Perhaps it is best to start with the simplest crafts in order to get used to working with salty dough. And this applies not only to children but also to adults. The simplest handicraft made from salt dough for Easter, which does not require any skills at all, is Easter eggs, which can be decorated either in the form of a long garland or each separately.

Example # 1 Easter egg garland

Prepare the salted dough and roll it out in a large layer. Next, we cut out an egg-shaped stencil from the cardboard - we apply it to the rolled dough, and we cut out the molds we need from the dough. At the top of each testicle, make a hole with a pen or pencil. We send the dough to dry.

After the dough has dried, we color it and thread a ribbon through the hole. You can tie a beautiful bow and leave the product like this, or you can tie several testicles into a long garland.

Example # 2: Simple product - basket

You can also try to make a simple basket with testicles. Ideal for learning about sculpting children.

The estimated size of the basket is 15 by 15 cm.The work algorithm is as follows:

  1. We take about 100 gr. dough and form a box of the future basket at our discretion.
  2. You can use an ordinary fork to add texture to the weave. The ornament will not only revive the future product, but also give the optimal shape;
  3. From two pieces of 50 gr. roll up two thin long sausages. Approximate length 14 - 16 cm.
  4. It is necessary to intertwine the blanks with each other and attach the formed handle to the basket body. Moisten the joints with water.
  5. To make testicles, simply roll up smooth balls of similar size.
  6. It is convenient to sculpt leaves and flowers from pieces of 5 by 2 cm. Texture can be applied with the blunt side of a knife or with a fork, depending on the intended type of leaves.
  7. Place the testicles in the basket and add other decorative elements.
  8. When attaching each structural element, it is important to moisten the surface of the dough with water for a better connection.

Example # 3: Angel holding an egg

  1. First, we create a special stencil for the future angel.
  2. Using a stencil, cut out the base of the angel. The thickness of the dough is about 5 mm. All torn or sharp edges that form must be smoothed out by hand.
  3. To be sure of the strength of the future figurine, using toothpicks, you can create the effect of reinforcement. To do this, it is enough to place several toothpicks along the body of the angel, in the direction of the wings and future legs.
  4. Create legs that will look out from the mantle. You can make your fingers a stack.
  5. Now you can start decorating the wings. Wing segments are formed from individual pieces of dough and fixed to the base. Patterns can be formed using a fork, a pen bar, or any other accessories.
  6. The hem of the robe can be made more realistic and voluminous. For this, a tape is formed from a piece of dough and figuratively attached to the base.
  7. The body of an angel should also be voluminous. This effect can be achieved by applying several balls of dough to create a garment for the figurine;
  8. We form sleeves from two pieces of stucco molding. Where the palms should appear, we make a small depression;
  9. For believable brushes, form two "drops" and make fingers with a stack, sculpt them to the grooves in the sleeves.
  10. Roll out the collar cake, create a pattern and attach it to the overall structure.
  11. We form a small Easter egg and "hand" it into the hands of the angel.
  12. We create the head and face absolutely symbolic. The way of life should be appropriate and neat. Reliability fade into the background.
  13. Hair can be created completely believable. for this we use a garlic press.
  14. We send to dry. You can use the battery. Enough 3 hours;
  15. To emphasize the relief, the finished figurine is treated with a solution of coffee. Particular attention should be paid to braid, places with intense ornamentation. The finished figurine can be placed as a decoration on a shelf or on a table.

What is attractive about this craft is the absence of any strict technological rules and conventions. The recipe by which the salted dough will be formed, crafts for Easter, their size, specificity, decor - all this can be created at your discretion, without adhering to particularly strict technology or requirements.

  1. stack or small knife;
  2. a comb to give specific patterns on the dough;
  3. rolling pin;
  4. a pen or pencil (in fact, any object with a rod);
  5. curly fixtures (for cutting cookies, for example);
  6. any stencils where you can make prints (lace, beads, children's toys, ready-made figures of something, etc.).

You can experiment with the composition of the dough, tools, colorful materials, shades and the method of processing stucco molding. Making salt dough Easter crafts with kids is a great alternative computer games or mindlessly watching TV. The activity can become an excellent hobby for the whole family, rallying family members around itself.