Master class on handicraft "testoplasty". Chess piece "Knight" made of salt dough
Master class on handicraft "testoplasty"
Master class on making a three-dimensional figure from salt dough.
This master class is intended for additional education teachers, children of primary and secondary school age.
Purpose: Chess figure.
Usage: For Game. While playing chess, a child learns to think logically, make decisions independently, and draw conclusions.
Target: Developing the creative abilities of additional education teachers and children, strengthening the ability to sculpt a three-dimensional figure from dough.
Tasks:
- Increase sensory sensitivity (the ability to finely perceive shape, texture, color, weight, plasticity, proportion);
- Develop general skill, fine motor skills, as well as spatial thinking and imagination;
- Develop the ability to plan work to implement a plan, anticipate the result and achieve it, making adjustments to the original plan if necessary.
To work you will need:
- salt dough (salt, flour, water, starch, PVA glue)
- frame for base*
- foil
- toothpicks
- stacks
- tassels
- gouache
- yacht varnish
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* For the frame, I used a mold from an old chandelier, but you can make it yourself from foil - tightly stuffing it into a glass or beaker.
Step-by-step process for making crafts:
Salt dough: 1 tbsp. salt (ground in a coffee grinder), not a full glass of cold water (about 7/8), 2 tbsp. flour, 2 tbsp. starch, 2 tbsp. PVA glue. Knead into a thick dough, wrap in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Then you can start sculpting.
Cover the frame of the base of the figure with a small layer of dough. Insert a toothpick into the middle of the top. Let the dough dry. We form the shape of the future figure from foil and put it on a toothpick.
Cover the mold with dough. The horse's legs will be at the same point, so at this stage we make them together as one cylinder.
We cut the cylinder on four sides
and smoothing the edges with a stack and a wet brush, we form the round legs of our horse.
We leave our feet to dry and proceed to the pedestal.
Place small balls of “pebbles” in a circle
three rows.
We lay out the top layer with small “pebbles” and two rings.
While the pedestal dries, we will work on the head. We build up the horse's muzzle.
Cut out the mouth. And with a wet brush we smooth the edges of the dough cut.
Use a toothpick to make nostrils.
We fashion triangular ears and glue them (with water) to the head.
Next we make the hooves. Cut a thin strip 1 cm wide.
and wrap it around the bottom of the horse’s legs.
Marking the hooves
for each leg.
We make cloven hooves on the front legs.
To make the tail stronger, we make a flat frame of dough for it. Let the craft dry.
Now let's grow the tail.
We roll thin long “flagella”
and lay them out from the bottom of the tail to the top.
Making eyes and cheeks
smoothing the dough with wet fingers.
We stick a tongue into the mouth. To make the wet dough stick to the dry dough, moisten the dry dough with a wet brush.
Making the mane. We place thin small sausages along the neck
in different directions
in two rows.
Place bangs between the ears.
Also in two rows, like the mane.
Our horse is almost ready, all that remains is to dress it up. Cut out a strip of 0.5-0.7 cm and glue it to the neck.
Along the edges we squeeze out two parallel strips with a stack, and between them we make small holes with the blunt tip of a brush,
into which we insert small balls - “precious stones”. We wrap the center ball with a thin ring.
We'll put a blanket on the horse's back. Cut out a rectangle about 3 cm wide, cut off the corners a little and glue (with water) to the back.
Just like on the collar, we make two parallel stripes,
decorate the middle with a pattern and make indentations
We insert small balls into them.
We make grass on the pedestal on three sides.
Our horse is ready. We dry it well in the open air - in the room on the table. You can near the battery, but not on it. It is better not to dry such a craft in the oven, it may swell.
This craft is a chess piece, and for our fairytale chess "Goldfish" you need two identical knights. The height of the finished figure is 10-12 cm.
After drying, you can start painting.
I use gouache because it is not only paint, but also a kind of primer that the oils of the varnish do not pass through.
To make plastic salt dough you need to take flour, salt and water in weight proportions of 200:200:125. But it should be taken into account that salt is twice as dense as flour, so if you measure by volume, the proportion will be 200:100:125. 
Water should be taken cold and poured in parts into the mixture of flour and salt. When kneading, it is best to use a mixer. 
Then the dough is kneaded by hand in the same way as for baking.
If you decide to sculpt a horse figurine, then you can do this in three steps, starting with sculpting the body. It is best to temporarily place the rest of the mass in a plastic bag so that it does not become covered with a hard crust.
Having sculpted the head and neck, this part is fastened to the body. For stickiness, you can lightly moisten the place of fastening, and carefully smooth out the “seam” itself, hiding it.
At the very end we form the mare's tail. You can make it all the way to the ground - this will increase the figure’s support by one more point.
The finished product must be thoroughly dried. You can use the oven and “bake” the sculpture at 80 degrees. Or you can use a microwave - it’s safer and faster. Only in a microwave oven it is better to first use the defrost mode and leave the figure for a minute.
Then you need to check whether cracks have appeared or whether the product has lost its shape. In case of surface damage, you can “make small repairs” with the dough, first dipping it into water. This way it is easy to hide unevenness and cracks that may appear.
Then you can switch to the warm-up mode. The figurine should be removed periodically and checked for strength. When it becomes hard and dry, you can begin the last step of making the figurine toy.
This will be coloring. You can use any paint: from acrylic and oil to food and watercolor. Some may even leave the figure pure white, while others will limit themselves to just coloring the mane and tail. Or you can joke a little and remember the famous colorful Dymkovo toys.
Can you now say that the horse is made from salt dough? More likely, she galloped from a fairy tale or cartoon...
This is how easy it is to become a real sculptor, sculptor, artist - in a word, a creator.
Therefore, quickly take flour and salt and get to work, gentlemen! Create your masterpieces!
Master class on making a funny horse from salt dough ...
If you like to make a variety of crafts from salt dough, then with the help of this master class your collection can be replenished with a new specimen - a funny horse.
Moreover, the HORSE is a symbol of the coming New Year.
Thank you for the master class masterclassy.ru.
Necessary materials:
- salty dough
- drawing of a horse
- food oilcloth
- rolling pin
- needle
- brush
- paints
- acrylic lacquer
- Super glue
- coffee beans
In order to get started, you need to draw a horse or, to make it faster, you can print a ready-made drawing.
Prepare salted dough: take water, salt, flour in a ratio of 1:1:2, knead the dough. Then we wrap the dough with food oilcloth and hide it in the refrigerator for 60 minutes. The finished dough should be similar in consistency to plasticine.
Take the drawing and cut out the horse.
We take part of the dough and roll it out into a circle, after which we take the horse drawing and place it on top of the dough.
We trace the outline of the horse with a knife.
From the dough we make a blank for the eyes - two balls.
Wet the dough with water and attach the eyes.
We take the brush from the back side and make holes, these will be the pupils. We dry the horse for at least 5 days.
After the horse has dried, take acrylic paints or gouache and paint the face and eyes.
Give the paint time to dry.
Then we paint the horse itself beige.
We paint the horse's mane yellow. Let the paint dry.
Then we turn the horse over and paint the back side beige.
We paint the horse's ears pink, eyelashes and pupils black. Using light brown paint using a brush, we create the effect of spots on the horse.
To add some zest to our creation, we take coffee beans and glue them to the horse.
The funny salt dough horse is ready.
Coffee Horse made from salt dough2014 Year of the Horse. So it’s not like without a horse. We will make a funny horse from salt dough. Modeling dough is always fun.
For work we will need:
Salted dough (2 cups flour, 1 cup fine salt, not a full glass of water);
- drawing of a horse;
- rolling pin;
- thick oilcloth;
- brush;
- needle;
- paints (gouache);
- acrylic lacquer.
First we draw a horse. If that doesn’t work, you can use a printout. 
We start by preparing salt dough. Take 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of fine salt, and not a full glass of cold water. Mix everything. As a result, the mass should become similar to plasticine: it does not crumble and does not stick to your hands (if it crumbles, add water, if it sticks to your hands, add flour).
During modeling, the dough should be kept in a plastic bag to prevent it from chaffing, and stored in the refrigerator. When the dough is ready, put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin on oilcloth a little thicker than half a centimeter. 
Using the drawing, cut out the horse. Place the design on the rolled out dough and carefully cut out the outline with a knife. 
Slowly remove the unnecessary dough with a knife. 
Then with a needle we draw all the details (mouth, ears, nose, mane, legs, hooves). 
We make two balls from the salt dough, flattening them slightly - these are the eyes. Wet the mounting area with water. 
We make pupils in the eyes using the back of the brush. The horse is ready. Now let it dry. We dry it on both sides for 5 days, maybe longer. If cracks appear during drying, they will need to be covered. Place a few drops of water on the cracks, take a piece of dough and apply it on top. 
We paint with gouache or acrylic paints. First, paint the “pug” and eyes with white gouache. 
Then we paint the horse itself beige and the mane yellow. 
We also paint the reverse side beige. 
Then we paint the pupils and eyelashes black. We paint the ears pink. 
Now we take coffee beans and glue them onto the horse. Just not very much. 
The coffee horse is ready. 
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You can make it from salt dough with your child or on your own; it’s easy to turn the craft into a magnet, Christmas tree toy or keychain. Such arts and crafts activities improve fine motor skills, general condition and mood. So sculpting from dough is not only pleasant, but also useful. Unlike various low-quality plasticines, the dough does not contain harmful components and does not cause allergic reactions.
Dough horse: where to start?
In order to “knead” the material for modeling, you need to take the following ingredients: a glass of flour, a glass of salt, one tablespoon each of vegetable oil and starch, 2/3 glass of water. You need to carefully mix all the ingredients and knead them into dough. Try to make it smooth and elastic and not stick to your fingers. Separate part of the dough and form it into a ball; roll out a layer about 0.7 cm thick on a cutting board.
Working with a template
To continue working with the craft, take a drawing that depicts a horse; you can draw it yourself, cut it out from a children’s coloring book or from the Internet. You will also need a stationery knife, a thin brush, paints or gouache, a toothpick, super glue or PVA, a board for working with plasticine or cardboard wrapped in foil; if you don’t mind, you can use regular kitchen foil. Since this method of making crafts will be carried out using salt dough, you can add a magnet, so you should get a horse on a magnet.
It is necessary to cut out a horse template from paper, preferably it has a streamlined shape. Next, you need to attach the cut out image to the rolled out dough, carefully cut along the contour with a stationery knife, then remove the excess strips of dough and leave the figure on the board.
Using a toothpick, you can apply a relief pattern to make the figure more expressive. Carefully draw grooves with a toothpick, highlighting the mane, tail, hooves, eyes, nostrils, ears, and so on. Leave the product to dry on the windowsill for 15 hours. After this, you need to grease the figure on one side with PVA glue, and then wait until it dries completely. The same must be done on the other side, leaving the horse for another 5 days for perfect drying.
You can speed up the technological process by sending the figurine to the oven, heated to 80 degrees, and leaving it for an hour and a half. After the horse is completely dry, you can paint it with paints and glue a magnet. With the help of such simple manipulations you can get a beautiful and exclusive craft.
