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Modeling dough is a unique material for children's creativity... Unlike plasticine, it does not stain your hands and does not stick to the table surface. The dough itself is softer and more manageable - it is easier to knead, sculpt details and create intricate shapes. And the finished figurines can be left in the air, and they will harden in just one day. For sculpting people in different times used clay, wax, salty dough, plasticine. Even ancient people were engaged in dough modeling. And the first to do this were the ancient Incas. They made figurines of animals and people for magical rites using a mixture of water and flour. These figures were burned and then sacrificed to the gods.

At the beginning of the 17th century in China, puppets were made from dough, which children played with and with the help of which they staged puppet shows. The Slavs also sculpted ceremonial toys from salt dough, which they later presented to relatives and friends for Christmas and other holidays.

Modeling dough has undoubted advantages over plasticine:

  • As already mentioned, it does not stain the surface and can be easily removed even from the carpet.
  • It is much easier to sculpt from the dough, so it is suitable even for the smallest children.
  • Once dry, the figurines can be painted with stained glass to create a glossy effect.
  • Colors mix easily with each other, forming new shades.
  • Crafts dry out on their own without additional impact, and subsequently they do not fall apart or crumble.

However, you need to remember that you need to store the modeling dough in tightly closed containers, otherwise it dries out and loses its properties. Often mothers ask themselves the question: "What is better to choose for classes with a baby: dough or plasticine?" It will be better if you give your child the opportunity to get acquainted with different substances and sensations, you will conduct classes with both a test and plasticine. But for the smallest (from 1 year old) it is better to use dough in modeling lessons and here's why:

  • The dough is much softer and more pliable than plasticine, and for babies who still find it difficult to knead plasticine, this is important.
  • Given the fact that many kids will want to taste the mass for modeling, the dough ( homemade) from this point of view, it is much safer, since its main components are flour, salt and water, and plasticine is still a combination of chemical components.

So, you have the dough, what to do with it next? First of all, of course, you need to introduce the baby to the test. Give him the opportunity to touch, wrinkle him. You can mold some kolobok or bunny to show what the dough is capable of. If the acquaintance was successful, you can move on to games. Remember that the entire session should not take longer than 5-10 minutes. Do not try to include all the games in one activity, watch the baby and always stop before he gets tired of the activity. If your toddler loses interest in a particular game, it may be too easy or too difficult for him. Try to make the task easier or easier.

You can roll out the dough with a rolling pin, press various objects into it, pinch off small pieces of dough, put them in a jar / bowl, prick the dough on a fork, cut with a knife, leave prints, sculpt sausages, koloboks and simple figures with mom's help, and much more. Nowadays, children are happy to make crafts, decorations, figurines and even whole paintings from sculpting dough. Such classes develop spatial imagination, fantasy, creativity, coordination, teach perseverance and concentration. And since during sculpting the child uses both hands, this develops both hemispheres of the brain at once.

Modeling dough is a fun, amazing, almost never boring and varied game. Through play, children learn about the world and learn. Often, parents do not want to bother with plasticine or dough, believing that the children will get everything dirty. And in vain. After all, you can sculpt in the fresh air, in an apron, on a special oilcloth. Modeling dough sculpting gives the growing child a lot in terms of development and learning.

Many manufacturers of creative goods are engaged in the production of modeling dough. Such companies include LORI, Genio Kids, Play-Doh and Bruno Visconti.

Hello everyone!

Dough-plasticine brand Genio kids I bought it in the Korablik store at a price of 150 rubles.

My daughter is 2.2 years old and this is her first plasticine dough.


My daughter sometimes watches videos on the YouTube channel where children play with Play Doh plasticine. But, since it is still too early for us to buy play kits for creativity, I decided to start my acquaintance with the sculpting test with an inexpensive and simple kit.


The set includes 4 jars of dough in different colors (red, yellow, blue and green).

Manufacturer: "Magic Island", Republic of Belarus.

Ingredients: flour, starch, water, colors and flavor.


In addition to this set, the store had other, more expensive thematic sets for sculpting by Genio kids: "Wonderful Dessert", "Bouquet Fantasy", "Cooking Pizza", "Kitty", "Ladybug" and others.


In the future I will buy some of these sets, because in general, we were satisfied with the Genio kids plasticine dough.

Pros of plasticine dough:

- very soft and pleasant, it is a pleasure to sculpt from it. Suitable for the smallest children, unlike ordinary plasticine.



- bright colours.


- pleasant unobtrusive apple smell.

- does not stick to hands at all. Does not stick to surfaces and does not stain the floor, pieces of dough that accidentally fall on the floor will simply harden.

To work with the dough, we have a special large plasticine board, on which we do our work.

Some features of plasticine dough:

- after playing with plasticine dough, a small amount of garbage remains, because small pieces and grains quickly harden. For this reason, the amount of dough can gradually decrease with each game.

- every day the dough gradually loses its properties: it becomes less elastic, dries up and does not return to its original appearance. It is already difficult to make a completely homogeneous lump out of it.


That is, you need to be prepared for the fact that this material is not durable and after some time it will need to be replaced with a new one (after about 10 days).

- outdoors, the dough hardens completely in 12 hours, so do not forget to put it in jars after each game. To better preserve the elasticity of the dough, it must be stored in tightly closed jars, in the form of a single lump. I think it's even better to additionally wrap it with cling film.


- parts made of dough-plasticine are not connected to each other as tightly as from ordinary plasticine.

My daughter really liked the lessons with the modeling dough, probably even more than with the Kinetic Sand.

I taught my daughter and on the third day she already knew how:

Tear off pieces from a large lump and roll balls and sausages from them.


- make cakes from a piece of dough by pressing on it with your palm.

All these manipulations with the test perfectly develop hand motility, and therefore the child's speech (like any exercises for the fingers).

Modeling generally has a positive effect on the development of the child, develops perseverance, attention and other skills.

It is advised to start modeling with a child before drawing.

Modeling will prepare the child's pen for more complex movements - using a pencil and a brush in drawing.

If you have time and desire, you can make the dough yourself:

Salt dough recipes for modeling, for children from 1 to 2 years old:
1) You need to take 1 cup of salt and 2 cups of flour, and, gradually stirring, add hot water... The dough is kneaded steeply. Ready dough for 1-2 weeks, you can safely store it in the refrigerator, putting it in a bag beforehand.

2) You will need 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of fine salt, 1 cup of water tinted with food coloring, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil... We take food dye, which is used for dyeing easter eggs and confectionery(½ or ¼ sachet of the same color for this portion of dough). The dough does not stick to hands, keeps its shape well. The dough can be stored for 3-4 weeks in a tightly closed bag in the refrigerator.

Successful shopping and creative success!

It has long been proven that modeling exercises help develop speech. We offer you to make clay with your own hands and spend unforgettable minutes (and maybe hours!) Of joint creativity with your baby. Our sculpting mass recipes have been tested on the most creative creators and their moms. Choose yours!

Modeling is a great way to develop fine motor skills, but not all mothers willingly give their babies plasticine - they are afraid that the child will swallow it, get dirty and dirty everything around. Educators in kindergarten and the school also dislikes him, since keeping track of 10-20 kids kneading plasticine in their hands is not an easy task. In fact, the fact that plasticine stains furniture, sticks to the floor and clothes, gets stuck under the nails, etc. are pure excuses. If you teach a child to work with him correctly, nothing bad will happen. Moreover, almost all children, without exception, like the sculpting process itself.

Today, the industry offers a wide range of products for modeling: colored dough, clay (ordinary, white, polymer, self-hardening), plasticine (floating, ball, wax, sculptural), mastic, etc. In addition to all of the above, you can always make homemade plasticine. What we propose to do using our recipes.

1. Mass that glows in the dark


You will need:
UV lamp;
vitamin B (in tablets or capsules) 2 pcs.;
2 tbsp. flour; 2 tbsp. warm water;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
Tartar (can be found in the spice store)
2/3 st. salt.

Cooking method:

Crush the vitamins into a powder, add flour, 4 teaspoons of tartar, salt and mix well. Then add water and vegetable oil. Stir well so that there are no lumps. Pour the mixture into a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the mixture looks like plasticine and stops sticking to the saucepan and hands. When everything cools down, you can start experimenting. Turn off the light and turn on the lamp. Plasticine will glow in the dark!

2. Edible plasticine

You will need:
½ tbsp. softened unsalted butter;
1 tbsp. l. heavy cream;
¼ h. L. vanillin (optional);
3-4 tbsp. powdered sugar;

Cooking method:

Beat with a mixer butter and cream. Gradually add powdered sugar to the mass and mix. The mass should become thick and dense enough for sculpting. Add vanillin at the end. Knead the dough on a surface sprinkled with icing sugar... Divide it into several parts, add a drop of food coloring to each and mix well again. If you do not want to use dyes, you can leave the mass white. Now you can start sculpting! The most important thing is that everything that you blind can be eaten.

3. Soft starch plasticine


You will need:
2 tbsp. soda;
1 tbsp. starch;
1 ¼ Art. cold water;
helium food coloring (optional).

Cooking method:

Mix all ingredients, add color. A soft and absolutely safe sculpting mass is ready! Even if the kid decides to taste his works of art, nothing bad will happen to him.

4. Mass for modeling with citric acid


You will need:
2 tbsp. flour;
2 tbsp. boiling water;
½ tbsp. salt;
2 tbsp. l. citric acid;
1 tsp glycerin (for shine);
food coloring.

Cooking method:

Mix everything thoroughly. Add vegetable oil to boiling water and pour into flour. Knead the dough. Knead until the sculpting mass is smooth and pleasant to the touch. You can add sparkles if you like.

5. Mass for modeling with tartar

You will need:
1 tbsp. flour;
1 tbsp. cold water;
½ tbsp. salt;
2 tsp tartar;
food coloring for color.

Cooking method:

Mix flour with salt, gradually adding water. Add tartar, oil and food coloring. Cook over medium heat until a ball forms. Cool and knead well.

6. Boiled salted dough

You will need:
1 tbsp. flour;
½ tbsp. warm water;
¼ Art. salt;
1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
food coloring for color.

Cooking method:

Mix flour and salt and pour everything into boiling water. While stirring, cook over low heat until the mixture takes the shape of a ball. Knead on a floured surface until it does not stick to your fingers and becomes elastic.

7. Mass for modeling in the microwave

You will need:
2 tbsp. flour; 2 tbsp. water;
1 tbsp. salt;
1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
1 tbsp. l. tartar;
food colorings.

Cooking method:

Stir the flour and salt first, then add water, oil, tartar and dyes. Transfer the resulting mass to a baking dish, cover and microwave for 4-5 minutes (at medium power). When it cools down, knead.

8. Mass for modeling without water

You will need:
300 g flour;
325 g of salt;
2 tbsp. l. wine vinegar;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
food coloring.

Cooking method:

Mix flour with salt and wine vinegar... Add vegetable oil and food coloring. Transfer to a saucepan and put on a small heat. Stir until thick. Cool and knead well.

9. Mass for modeling on the basis of jelly

You will need:
1 tbsp. flour;
1 tbsp. warm water;
2 tbsp. l. salt;
2 tbsp. l. tartar (can be replaced apple cider vinegar);
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
100 g jelly (approx.)

Cooking method:

Mix everything and put in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until a ball forms. When the mass has cooled, knead well. If it sticks to your hands, add flour.

10. Classic salty dough

You will need:
2 tbsp. salt
1 tbsp. flour;
1 tbsp. cold water.

Preparation:

Mix flour and salt, add water in portions. Knead the mass thoroughly, first with a spoon, and then on a floured surface until a bun is formed. If necessary, add flour so that the mass does not stick to your hands. Some salt dough recipes recommend adding wallpaper glue, glycerin, sunflower oil... Here, as they say, the taste and color ...

11. Self-hardening modeling mass

You will need:
1 part fine-grain putty;
1 part starch;
5 parts of PVA glue;
glycerin (a couple of drops);
citric acid (pinch).

Preparation:

Mix all ingredients. Lubricate your hands with a fat cream and knead the mass well. Wrap the resulting dough in foil so that it does not dry out.

12. Self-hardening modeling mass (boiled)

You will need:
2 tbsp. soda;
1 tbsp. starch (better than corn);
1.5 tbsp. water.

Preparation:

Cook for a few minutes. The mass will first begin to bubble, and then collect into a lump. Remove from heat and knead.

13. Self-hardening modeling paste based on wallpaper glue

You will need:
1 part wallpaper glue (with modified starch);
3 parts water;
1 part baking soda.

Preparation:

Mix ingredients and leave to swell for 20 minutes. Add a couple of drops of liquid soap. Knead with petroleum jelly or baby body oil. No need to cook! If necessary, you can add regular starch (so as not to stick to your hands).

The last three recipes are suitable for making interior decoration items. Things are fragile, but with careful handling they can serve for a long time.

Speaking of color ...

Food coloring can be added both at the very beginning of cooking in the dough itself, and later. If you don't have food coloring on hand, you can use some products from the refrigerator or medicine from your home medicine cabinet. For example, a green color can be obtained by adding a few drops of brilliant green to the dough, brown - cocoa or strong brewed coffee, red - cherry or beet juice, purple - blackcurrant juice, yellow - turmeric or carrot juice. Alternatively, in addition to color, you can add fragrances! For this purpose, you can use spices or essences for baking. Thus, the child also develops a sense of smell.

If an older child will sculpt (you are sure that he will not pull dough into his mouth), you can use gouache - the color is bright and persistent. You can not tint the mass for modeling at all, work with white. The finished figurine can always be painted at the end and varnished.

It is very useful for children to sculpt: both hands are involved (all fingers and the inner surface of the palm). Children learn to coordinate hand movements, acquire sensory experience, develop an eye, imagination, perseverance, accuracy, manual skills, spatial thinking. Children get the opportunity to do voluminous crafts, learn to feel the shape. When plasticine is prepared at home, there is no need to be afraid that the child will taste it.

"Delicious" plasticine for you and a sea of ​​ideas for joint creativity! We hope you find yours among the suggested recipes!

Dear Readers! Does your child love to sculpt? Do you have a favorite sculpting mass recipe? We are waiting for answers in the comments.

Modeling various crafts from plasticine is an incredibly useful activity for growing up kids, allowing them to develop not only fine motor skills, but also many other skills and abilities that are important for the normal development of a child, including spatial, abstract and critical thinking. You can start modeling classes from the age of two, and in order not to worry about the quality of plasticine bought in a children's store and its effect on the child's health, you can make a mass for modeling yourself. For this, the most common flour called in every home and other inexpensive and affordable ingredients are suitable.

There is a large number of do-it-yourself children's plasticine preparation. It can be edible or inedible, and come in a wide variety of colors. You can prepare it in a cold way and using heat treatment component. But the most important thing is that such plasticine will be absolutely safe for the child, even if he swallows it. So, how to make clay from flour and other available ingredients.?

Homemade plasticine recipes

Plasticine prepared by heating the components:

  • 1 glass of water;
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil;
  • half a glass of ordinary table salt;
  • 1 tablespoon citric acid
  • food coloring of the desired color;
  • 1 cup flour.

The cooking process is as follows. First, water, salt, oil, citric acid and dye are mixed, after which the resulting semi-finished product is brought to a warm state over moderate heat. Then the mixture is removed from the heat and flour is added. All this is mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. After cooling, homemade clay is ready to use.

By the way. Such a mass, due to the presence of a large amount of citric acid in the composition, has a sharp taste. Therefore, having tasted it at least once, the baby will forever wean himself to pull plasticine into his mouth.

To make plasticine in a cold way, you will need:

  • 1 glass of cold water;
  • 1 salt machine;
  • 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil;
  • food coloring;
  • 3 cups flour;
  • 2 tablespoons of cornstarch.

In a bowl, mix the water (you can replace it with the juice of a vegetable or fruit with the desired shade), oil, salt and dye (if water is used). Gradually, stir the mixture, adding flour and starch, until it reaches the consistency of a dough. Plasticine is ready and can be used to sculpt interesting crafts.

Storing homemade clay is very simple. Any resealable plastic container is suitable for this. If it becomes brittle, then it is very easy to give it plastic qualities again with the help of a small amount of water. As for the coloring of the modeling mass, then not only food colors available for sale in any grocery store are suitable for this, but also natural colors:

  • you can paint plasticine red using beet juice;
  • turmeric or carrot juice will help make plasticine orange;
  • spinach juice will turn the modeling mass green;
  • infusion of hibiscus tea can give the mass a blue hue.

Updated: April 30, 2019 by the author: Vitaliy R

Sculpting is a great way to develop fine motor skills in children, very fun and enthusiastic. The use of salt dough for this lesson is one of the best options... Parents can make their own inexpensive, safe sculpting material with excellent plastic properties.

The benefits of sculpting for children

The creation of figurines from plastic materials is a kind of useful leisure not only for children, but also for the whole family. You can do it with kids, starting from one and a half years of age. Modeling - both funny and useful way activities with children. At the same time, adults will also spend time with benefit and pleasure.

Making crafts from plastic material develops in children:

  • spatial thinking;
  • creativity;
  • the ability to perceive and distinguish colors and shades;
  • perseverance;
  • Attention;
  • memory;
  • coordination of movements;
  • fine motor skills and, as a result, speech function.

Modeling helps children to understand what shapes, shades, size ratio are. This activity has a beneficial effect on the psycho-emotional state of the child.

Children use both hands when making crafts, that is, both hemispheres of the brain are involved in the process, which develops both logical and creative thinking at the same time.

Children who are involved in sculpting acquire useful skills that will be useful to them in their future studies and life. Classes teach kids to be neat, purposeful, focus on the goal. Children begin to fantasize, to think independently, to analyze the process.

Advantages of Salted Modeling Dough

It is recommended to use dough for making crafts for many reasons. The dough, unlike other materials, is non-toxic and safe. If a child eats a piece, it will not negatively affect his body. In addition, the modeling dough has a rich salty taste, which will discourage the child from pulling it into the mouth. Due to the fact that the dough is an environmentally friendly product, you can make crafts from this material with very young children.

Dough is a much more plastic material than plasticine. It does not have to be kneaded for a long time before use. The dough does not stick to hands, dries quickly. The advantages of using the dough include the fact that when making the material with your own hands, you can give it any color you want.

Simple recipes for salt dough with your own hands


There are a lot of salt dough recipes for creating crafts. Making such a dough requires almost no culinary skills, so even a child can do it. Of course, parental control will be required, but it will be interesting for the child not only to sculpt, but also to take part in the process of making the material.

For a start, it's better to choose a simpler recipe - a classic one. Not necessarily the first time you get a material with the parameters necessary for sculpting. Failure can occur due to the improper quality of one or another ingredient, the wrong water temperature. Some people like to measure the ingredients to be mixed by eye, which also affects the quality of the final product.

Classic recipe

For the first time, it's best to choose a simple salty dough recipe. You need flour, salt and water:

  1. Add 200 grams of Extra grinding salt to 200 grams of premium white flour, mix thoroughly.
  2. After that, water is poured in a thin stream (only 125 grams). You should not add all the water at once, but gradually, stirring the mixture after each portion and observing the consistency.
  3. The resulting dough may crumble slightly due to the high salt content. This problem can be solved by adding a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the mixture. In this case, the dough will be elastic.
  4. After the dough is kneaded, it needs to be refrigerated for a short time. Half an hour is enough, and your sculpting material will be ready.

With PVA glue

To prepare the dough according to this recipe, you need to take a standard glass of flour and salt and mix thoroughly. Dissolve a tablespoon of PVA glue or other wallpaper glue in 150 ml of water. The resulting whitish liquid is slowly added to the mixture.

In this case, you need to pay attention to the consistency. Different flour takes water in different ways, so you need to navigate by sensations. Grains of salt can be felt in the resulting mass, so it will take a little longer to knead the dough with glue than usual.

The dough with glue is more durable, does not crack when dried. Ready mass you need to hold it in the refrigerator for a while. If there is more test than needed, you can store it in the same place. For two weeks it retains its properties.

With added starch

You can make a sculpting material without using flour. In this recipe, she is replaced by potato starch... For cooking, you need a glass of starch and two glasses of baking soda:

  1. The ingredients are thoroughly mixed, then half a glass of water is added. You can add food coloring to the mixture if you wish.
  2. The container with the mixed components is put on low heat and, with constant stirring, is brought to the desired density.
  3. When the mass becomes sticky and very thick, it is removed from the heat and cooled, and then kneaded.
  4. If the cooled dough sticks to your hands, you can add a spoon and a half of vegetable oil and knead again.


With food coloring

Children will love the colored sculpting material. It is simple to make it: prepare the dough according to any of the above recipes, divide into parts and add food colors of the required colors to each of them. It is preferable to use liquid dyes. They give the mass an intense color and improve elasticity. You can paint the dough like this: put each part of the dough in a plastic bag, add a few drops of dye and knead it well for even coloring.

Luminous dough

Children will be delighted if the dough is made glowing! In order to make it, you need to take two glasses wheat flour and water, an incomplete glass of fine salt, two tablespoons of vegetable oil. You will also need a tartar and two vitamin B tablets:

  1. The tablets must be crushed thoroughly. Mix all dry ingredients, add water in a thin stream, then oil.
  2. Put the resulting mixture over low heat, stirring, bring to the desired consistency.
  3. After that, the mixture is removed from the stove and cooled.

The glowing dough is ready! You can see it “at work” in a dark room using an ultraviolet lamp.

Play-Doh plasticine analog


Many children love Play-Doh's bright plasticine. You can try to prepare its counterpart. A hand-made modeling mass is completely safe for a child:

  1. Mix half a glass of salt with a glass of wheat flour, add a couple of teaspoons of citric acid, a little glycerin and vegetable oil.
  2. Put the resulting mixture on a small fire and pour in about half a glass of water in small portions. Keep the mixture on the stove until it is clear and smooth.
  3. Cool slightly and place on a floured surface.
  4. Divide the mass into parts if you want to get dough of different colors.
  5. Add dye to each part and knead thoroughly. The mixture prepared according to this recipe turns out to be very plastic and beautiful.

DIY photo ideas

For the little ones

For the first lessons, you need to choose the most simple options. Little child you can suggest cutting out figures from the dough with special confectionery molds, having previously rolled out the mass with a rolling pin. You can make a flat blank in the shape of some animal, and then make and attach small parts to it: eyes, ears, teeth, a tail, bows, ruffles and everything else that you have enough imagination for.

You can then make a picture from such flat figures by sticking them on thick paper or cardboard. An example of such work in the photo:


For kids 2-4 years old, you can come up with a game in the store. To do this, you will need to independently make products and other goods for the game. The easiest way for a kid to make a loaf or bagels. In the first case, the child just needs to form a small sausage and make cuts with the help of a stack, as on the "City" loaf.

The bagels are not more difficult to make: small pieces of dough need to be rolled out into thin sausages and the ends of each of them must be fastened to each other. After " bakery products»Are ready, they need to be properly dried and then painted with acrylic paints.

Holiday decorations

With a child 4-6 years old, you can make Christmas tree decorations and other decorative elements. It's very simple:


  • you need to mix 1 cup of salt and water with 2 cups of flour;
  • then knead the total mass for 10 minutes to the desired consistency;
  • separate a small part of the dough, make them a ball;


  • flatten and make a hole in the center with your index finger;
  • place the blanks in a donut baking dish;
  • make holes-grooves with a toothpick along the edges of the future product;


  • bake at 200 degrees for 6 hours, then dry the products completely;
  • Use a knitting needle to make holes for attaching the decorative tape.



You can paint toys in different colors and decorate with any decor (beads, bugles, beads, etc.) - the matter is limited solely by the child's imagination.

You can make themed souvenirs from dough for any holiday, wonderful gifts for family and friends, decorative ornaments for your home interior. Such activities not only help the child to develop, but also bring pleasure to all participants in the process.