Master class with step-by-step photos “New Year's gifts” using the salt dough modeling technique.
Author: Daria Galanova, 9 years old student of the municipal budgetary institution of pre-school and youth education, association “Salty Fantasies”, MillerovoTeacher: Nazarova Tatyana Nikolaevna, teacher of additional education of the Municipal Budgetary Institution of Preschool Children's and Youth Children's and Youth, Millerovo
The master class is very simple in complexity, perhaps it will be useful to teachers of kindergartens of senior and preparatory groups. In this case, you can cut out snowmen and mittens from the dough in advance. Dry them, and during the lesson ask the children to make the rest of the molds. The master class will also be interesting
for everyone who loves to sculpt salt dough. Make gifts for friends and loved ones. As well as additional education teachers, primary school teachers, teachers of extended day groups.
Purpose: New Year gifts.
Target: creating New Year's gifts using the salt dough modeling technique.
Tasks:
Educational: master the technique of making gifts from salt dough;
Educational: develop accuracy in modeling and artistic thinking;
Educational: encourage the desire to give New Year's gifts made with one's own hands;
Required material:
Paper napkin, stack, glass of water, “Extra” salt, premium flour, “snowman” dough cutter 10.5 x 6 cm, photo frame, colored paper, “snow” floral mesh, “small mitten” 5 x 2.5 cm cocktail tube, ballpoint pen without paste, rolling pin, simple pencil.
Salt dough recipe:
Combine 1 cup flour and 0.5 cup salt. Stir, make a well. Gradually pour in 1 glass of cold water in a thin stream. Knead into a tight, elastic dough. Store the dough in a cellophane bag.
Recipe for "snow"
In a small saucepan, combine 2 tablespoons water and 1 teaspoon potato starch. Stir and place on low heat. Stir constantly while doing this. As soon as the mixture becomes transparent, remove it from the stove and immediately add 1 cup of Extra Salt. First, use a spoon, and once the mixture has cooled slightly, you can stir with your hands. The snow is ready. Place it in a plastic bag and seal tightly. It is important that no air enters the bag.
Progress:
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5-7 mm. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the “snowman” and place on a paper napkin.
Mark the eyes with a pencil, push the mouth with a stack. Using a stack, make a mark for yourself where you will glue the snowman’s hat.
Form a flat cake from a small lump of dough. Cut it in half. Moisten the snowman's head with water and glue on the hat. We glue all elements of the composition with cold water. Roll up a small, thin flagellum and glue it to the hat. We are making a fur hat. Form a ball from a small lump and glue a bell.
Form a very small carrot and glue a nose on the snowman.
Roll up a thin rope and glue a scarf on the snowman.
From small, identical lumps, form two lumps similar to beans and glue the legs.
Using a ballpoint pen without paste, press the buttons down the center of the snowman.
Form a gift box from a lump the size of a large plum and glue it onto the snowman’s hand. It turns out that the snowman is holding a gift in his hands. Glue the gift tightly so that after the craft dries, it does not fall off.
The snowman is ready, let's start sculpting the mittens.
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-4 mm. Cut out two small mittens.
Stack the cuffs on the mittens. Use a cocktail straw to make holes.
Make a very small snowman on one of the mittens.
Glue the Christmas tree and toy balls onto the second mitten.
We made the mittens so quickly.
Place the snowman and mittens on a sunny windowsill. Crafts dry in air for about 5-7 days. Although the mittens will certainly dry in a couple of days, since they are not as bulky as a snowman.
The crafts are dry. Paint them with paints and cover them with glossy varnish.
We glue the snowman into a frame and decorate it with glitter. Spread a layer of PVA glue under the legs of the snowman, put “snow”. Compact it lightly. Once the glue dries, the “snow” will stick firmly. This “snow” can be stored for a couple of days in a plastic bag.
The snowman is ready.
Thread the ribbon into the mittens. Decorate with glitter
Gifts for the New Year are ready.
Good afternoon, today we have finally completed a large selection of ideas for New Year's crafts made from salt dough, and all the ways to decorate them. Here you will find Christmas tree decorations made from dough, pendants, decorations for Christmas wreaths, New Year's characters made from dough (snowman, Santa Claus, deer, penguin, etc.) and other children's crafts made from dough, suitable for activities in the garden or school. I promise that today you will fall in love with this world of wonderful salt crafts and want to make your own miracle for the New Year from salt dough with your own hands.
So let's get started. Let's start with the recipe.
SALT DOUGH RECIPE
For New Year's crafts.
- Flour (wheat or rye) – 1 cup. Salted rye dough holds its shape better.
- Salt (finely ground, such as “Extra”) – 1 cup
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (so as not to stick to your hands), or 1 tbsp. hand cream
- PVA glue 2 tablespoons - optional, you can do without it.
- Water - how much the dough will take. Add gradually, kneading the dough into a tight, plastic lump.
First, mix the dry ingredients - salt, flour.
Add 1 tablespoon and rub with your hands. Add a spoonful again and grind. We continue to add and knead with our own hands. As soon as we have an elastic lump in our hands, our dough is ready.
Store the finished dough tightly wrapped in cling film and placed on a shelf in the refrigerator.
PAINTING RULES
Method 1 - paint the dough itself. You can color the dough with food coloring or salt dyes for Easter eggs. COLORS are also suitable - jars of dyes from a hardware store; they are used to tint white wall paint to the desired color. They are cheap and rich in color.
Method 2 - paint the craft. Crafts can be made from unpainted dough and then painted on top with gouache and fixed with hairspray from a can.
RULES OF STYLE.
We attach large parts of the craft to each other with a match or toothpick. We glue the chalk parts with water, that is, we wet the parts with water and apply them to each other.
As you sculpt the craft, keep a bowl of water nearby to wet your hands or the dough itself to prevent it from drying out. In the open air, the dough dries quickly and loses its elasticity.
RULES FOR DRYING CRAFTS.
Can be dried outdoors, on a radiator, in the oven (130-140 degrees).
Flat dough shapes.
(New Year's crafts and toys for the Christmas tree).
The simplest version of a dough craft is a flat silhouette covered with paint, with or without a pattern. Roll out the dough into an even layer, cut out shapes, and dry. If you like ideal shapes, then I suggest you sand the dried part with sandpaper (sandpaper), sold in a hardware store for pennies. This way you will get a perfectly smooth surface of the craft.
We cover the salt dough figurine with paint of a background color (gouache, acrylic, even construction acrylic works great). Let's dry it. Against this background we draw multi-colored patterns. Let's dry it. Seal with hairspray (or acrylic varnish).
Here's a great idea for a children's craft made from salt dough for the New Year - a Bullfinch bird made from the outline of a child's palm. Place your palm on the cardboard, trace it with a pencil, and cut it out. We place a cardboard palm on the rolled out dough, cut it with a knife... or scratch it with a knife and cut it out with scissors, carefully lifting the layer of dough above the table without stretching it.
And now I want to tell several important tricks, secrets and nuances, which will help you immediately achieve a good, bright result in your work on New Year’s dough crafts.
HOW TO RECOGNIZE clear contours of a pattern on salt dough.
First, we draw the details with a pencil on the already dried dough (we make a sketch), if the sketch is successful, then we draw it with a black felt-tip pen (so that it becomes visible).
We paint all the details of the drawing with gouache, like a contour painting, without being afraid to climb onto the black edge of the outline. Drying the paint.
And then we go over all the edges with a black bold marker. This way the outlines of the drawing will become clearer (see the photo below, where the windows and doors of the salt dough houses are drawn exactly like this)
THE SECRET of choosing colors for coloring dough crafts.
If you do not draw the boundaries of the details with a black stroke, then you must follow the RULE OF CONTRAST - that is, select paints where the colors themselves stand out against each other.
The dough star craft with a penguin in the photo below is very indicative - White paint looks bright in contrast with black, and red paint is brighter when next to black and white.
But in the right photo below (with a butterfly made of salt dough) this rule is no longer observed. And pink flowers look pale and expressionless against the orange background of the craft.
But the blue flower (on crafts even lower in the shape of a star) is already bright - because blue and orange are CONTRASTING to each other.
You can make a pattern crafts from similar colors of the palette(white, blue, dark blue - as on the mitten in the photo below), but then you need to achieve a difference in their saturation - the blue one should be lighter, and the blue one should be richer and darker - so that there is no color fading.
It’s better to choose contrasting rich colors (red + white + green) - as was done for the craft in the right photo below - with New Year’s feet made of salt dough. A beautiful and simple New Year's craft made from salt dough for children in school or the older group of kindergarten. We cut out the leaves using molds or scissors from salt dough. All painting of the craft is done with gouache.
How to paint with an embossed pattern.
You can apply a colorful design to the salt dough, enriching the decor pressed relief (as in the photo with the New Year's dough craft below). There we first make indentations with a stamp - round berries (squeeze out with a pencil and wash) and leaves (made with a stamp cut from a piece of raw potato).
After pressing the relief design, we apply paint inside the relief, giving the entire craft beautiful retro style.
How to color the salt dough itself.
First we make regular salt dough. Dough natural color. Then, at the bottom of the glass, add food coloring powder in a couple of drops of water. And add this mixture to a small piece of dough. Knead evenly with your hands (your hands will also be colored, it’s okay, everything will wash off). We get a colored lump of dough - from it we make colored elements to decorate the dough craft (such as these buttons on the mittens below).
You can use food or salty Easter coloring. In powder or immediately liquid (then it does not need to be soaked in water). As a result, we get colored material for sculpting bright details that can be used to decorate a flat dough craft.
Depending on the amount of dye, you will get a bright, juicy color (like the carrot on the nose of the dough snowman) or a pale pastel shade (like the salt dough owl in the right photo). As you can see, it’s easy to do everything yourself. Even children will be happy to help mix the dye - they are fascinated by the process of color spreading to all parts of the dough ball.
Graphic SECTOR painting
dough crafts.
With the help of the usual drawing ruler you can make RELIEF GRAPHICS - divide the plane of the salted figurine into clear sectors (as was done for the heart-shaped crafts in the photo below) and paint each sector with its own color. A beautiful and bright DIY New Year's craft made from salt dough that looks like a factory stamp. Nicely done.
In the same way you can extrude sectors WITH SMOOTH BORDERS(not in a straight line, but in a curved one). To do this, we take a sheet of thick cardboard, place it on its edge, slightly bending it, and press this curved edge of the cardboard into the dough. We get a smooth groove line (as is done on the Christmas tree toys made from dough in the photo below).
We make round grooves in the form of a ring using caps from medicine bottles, caps of felt-tip pens and other things.
We immediately whiten the grooves with white gouache and let them dry. And on top we apply bright layers of paint.
We fix the craft with layers of hairspray, the usual one from a cheap can (or coat it with acrylic varnish from a stationery store with a soft brush).
After varnish coating, the color becomes brighter by 2-3 tones.
The varnish coating (especially in several layers) makes the craft sparkle as if it were made of ceramics with ceramic glaze.
Pay attention to the craft of mittens made from salt dough - ideal for kindergarten. We make the mittens ourselves - and give the children the opportunity to use a ruler to divide the sectors into stripes and paint the stripes with different colors of gouache. Simple and terribly interesting for all the kids in kindergarten and even the kids from school. An apple craft made from salted dough is also a godsend for kindergarten classes - make a relief with a ruler on a piece of paper, and work with gouache for your own pleasure and with your own hands.
Crafts from dough for the New Year
with rhinestones and sequins.
You can decorate salted dough crafts with various decorative elements from a sewing accessories store. Rhinestones, sequins, sparkles, buttons, beads, beads - all this can add New Year's sparkle to your craft.
Decoupage technique
On crafts made from salt dough.
Flat dough silhouettes can be an excellent background for printing a picture from paper napkins. The technique is called decoupage. And you don’t need anything special for it, no chemicals, no tools. Just glue and a napkin with a pattern and hairspray for finishing.
We take the already dried silhouette from salt dough. If necessary, sand it with sandpaper so that the surface becomes smooth and even (although this is not necessary).
Apply a layer of PVA glue to the surface of the dough piece. We separate the thin top paper layer from the napkin with the pattern and place it on top of the glue, carefully straightening the delicate paper, not allowing it to form wrinkles or creases.
It is not necessary to fill the entire surface of the salty craft with a napkin pattern. You can place the napkin pattern on only one side of the dough silhouette (as is done on New Year's crafts - hearts made from salt dough). Before work, it is better to sand the dried hard surface of the parts with regular sandpaper and cover it with white (gouache or acrylic) - this way we will get the ideal “canvas” for our elegant art of decoupage.
Salt Dough Tools
(knives and scissors for decorating crafts)
In the photo below we see how interesting it is to use a knife and ordinary scissors when making crafts from salt dough. The point of a knife creates a triangular depressed silhouette, and scissors can be used to cut the dough into protruding sharp pieces of the same shape.
This technique with scissors comes in handy when you need to create feathers on bird crafts made from salt dough. Current craft for the New Year of the Rooster.
Salt dough weaving
For the New Year.
Here is an example of how you can make it yourself made from salt dough KNITTED HEART. First, we sculpt long sausage ropes from the dough with our hands.
Then we bend the long sausage in half and twist it into a HARNESS-SPIRAL.
We lay 2 twisted strands next to each other - sideways to the barrel - choosing their arrangement so that the turns of each adjacent strand face in the opposite direction. That is, one harness with a diagonal turn down left, and the other harness with a diagonal turn down right. Thus, 2 strands laid side by side form the illusion of ONE BRAID.
If we place several such braids side by side (each consisting of two strands), then we get CLOTH, similar to the relief of a knitted pattern.
All that remains is to squeeze out the silhouette of a heart from this canvas (with a regular cookie cutter). And place this knitted layer on top of another regular flat dough heart.
You can make an ordinary braid (from three sausages) from salt dough, put it in a ring and decorate the craft as a Christmas wreath. Form pink petals from round cakes of dough and place them on the rose. Leave the leaves with veins pressed out with the edge of a knife.
Braided dough crafts can be decorated with silhouettes cut out with cookie cutters, such as stars. Below we see a master class on carefully painting dough crafts
After drying, we cover each element with thick gouache, choosing a painting design to suit your taste. You can add glitter elements and beaded sprinkles.
Dough crafts
With relief patterns.
(embossing method).
Here is a decorative method for crafts made from salt dough that all children really like. They are delighted with the openwork pattern that, as if by magic, appears on the salt dough.
The easiest way to make a pattern on salt dough with your own hands is to use button prints. We take large buttons without holes - using double-sided tape we stick them onto ordinary wine corks - and we get convenient stamps that you can hold in your hands. We give the children stamps and they poke them into the rolled out dough. Next, we cut out the silhouettes of Christmas trees with cookie cutters - and we get a craft in the form of a Christmas tree, with New Year's balls.
Look beautiful prints of large metal buttons with a relief convex pattern - antique.
You can use grandma's in the same way. brooches, buttons with an eagle or a horse on dad’s jeans, grandfather’s royal coins (hee hee), embossed caps from mom’s perfume, beer caps, the bottoms of Aunt Sima’s crystal glasses and other interesting round stamps.
But this pattern on the salt dough Christmas tree craft is made using thick cardboard (or a rubber mat), which is rolled into a tube to form a curl at the end of the jacket. And this curl was applied to the salted dough rolled out on the table. The result was simple and beautiful. An excellent children's craft for a competition at school or kindergarten.
The bottom and sides of the decanter and other crystal flasks are an excellent store of patterns for crafts made from salt dough for the New Year.
You can also use RELIEF TEXTILES - napkins, tablecloths, and curtains with fringe. You can buy lace with a relief pattern in the store, or look for its elements in a drawer with beautiful lingerie.
Just place the openwork on the rolled out dough. And we roll over it with the same stick-rolling pin. If you don’t have a rolling pin in your house (you’re such a housewife, what can you do) then you can replace it with a smooth glass bottle or a can of hairspray.
A very beautiful and clear relief is left by RUBBER NAPKINS (as in the photo below). The fashion for them went back to Soviet times - but for New Year’s crafts with your own hands, you can buy a couple of elegant polyethylene napkins.
Here are the patterned things you can make from plastic Chinese napkins.
How to do it right
paint a dough craft
WITH EMBOSSED PATTERN.
We want the painting of the embossed patterned dough craft to be bright. So that the paint does not blur the pattern, but only emphasizes and highlights it. To make the pattern darker inside and lighter on top - how to do this?
Here’s how: first, paint the entire craft one color with a brush; use the brush to get into all the recesses of the pattern. Let it dry until the paint is completely dry.
And then we take paint 1-2 shades lighter (or a different color altogether) and work not with a brush, but with a foam sponge or makeup sponge.
We smear this second paint on a plate, blot it with a sponge and carefully make an imprint of the sponge on the surface of our pattern - SO that the sponge does not press into the grooves of the pattern, but is applied only on top. We repeat the procedure with a sponge until we get uniform coloring of the entire craft.
Thus, we will color the pattern with a textured highlight of it into 2 color tones - on top and inside the relief.
And here (in the photo below) is another original-colored and original-pressed craft made from salt dough. As far as I understand, this relief on the star craft was made with help bags a la snake or crocodile skin. The surface of the bag was applied to the dough. All this was drying. And then they painted with a brush and sponge in several shading passes. Please note that not all places were painted with a blue brush; somewhere there was a brush with white paint. And then everything was powdered on top with soft white paint using a foam sponge.
You can also not look for any stamps for patterns - but make the pattern yourself - with ordinary sticks, pencils, cocktail straws. Just first, with the point of a pencil, outline the lines of the future pattern - draw faint stripes of future flower petals. And then make pinhole punctures along the marked lines. If we take sticks of different thicknesses, we will get different points, this will give the composition additional artistic variability.
And nature itself can give us its stamps to imprint the New Year's mood on dough crafts. Branches of evergreen fir, imprints of cones and dry, stringy leaves. Even at home in a flower pot you can find a source of beautiful floral patterns.
Puff pastry crafts
with your own hands for the New Year.
Look at the layered beauty you can make with your own hands. How beautiful DOUBLE-LAYER CRAFTS made from salt dough look. The bottom base layer is made without a pattern, in a single color. We dry this layer thoroughly, then sand its surface with sandpaper (or pumice for heels, this is also good). We cover the sanded base layer with paint, trying to achieve uniform coloring (you can use a foam sponge rather than a brush or spray paint from a spray can).
The top patterned layer of the craft is made from salted dough with a relief imprint. By the way, you can make very beautiful prints using antique tin trays with relief engraving on metal. Your grandmother or elderly neighbor may have just such a tray. Your neighbor will let you use it for a chocolate bar if you clearly explain to the alarmed old lady that in 5 minutes you will return the valuable rarity to the owner. If she doesn’t trust you, invite her to your kitchen-workshop, let her see how her tray helps create a New Year’s miracle.
And here is a children's craft for the New Year - in the form of bird pendants for the Christmas tree. Here the relief is applied to the upper layers - wings and breast. First cut out the body of the bird from the dough. Then the breast and wings.
First we make a relief imprint USING WIRE. Yes, ordinary wire on a flat table is twisted in different winding directions, forming a flat pattern of twisted paths.
Then this wire is placed on the rolled out salt dough and pressed into its pulp with a rolling pin.
Two-layer children's crafts made from salt dough for the New Year must definitely contain a New Year's theme in their decor. These are snowflakes (cut out of dough), these are red berries and holly leaves. You can also make ribbons from dough or take real satin ones.
You can and should decorate multilayer crafts with beads. Beads can be placed on glue, or you can also string a bead onto a wire, twist the ends of the wire together, pierce the dough piece and spread the ends apart (spread apart). This type of wire fastening of beads is used in the craft in the photo below.
Here we see an example of a craft made from salt dough IN SEVERAL LAYERS. You will learn exactly how to make this New Year's flower from salt dough with your own hands if you read the article on our website. It shows the principle of creating puff flowers from paper, and exactly the same principle allows you to make the same flowers from dough. The rolled out dough is cut in the same way as paper, with scissors, and it is also convenient to place it in puff tiered flowers for the New Year.
The flower petal layers can be glued together after drying - using hot thermal glue from a gun. Or for batter. Check in advance how this or that method works.
But (in the photo below) we see a two-layer craft made from salt dough, to which volume has been added. Very interesting work. And in fact, making such a decoration for the Christmas tree with your own hands is not difficult.
Look, first we roll out the dough, then use a glass to cut out 2 rounds from it. In him
We find 2 Christmas balls of a suitable size. And we place our round pieces on the rounded belly of the Christmas ball. And we dry our workpiece like this right on the ball - so that it dries in the shape of a hemisphere (bowl). Next, remove the two dry hemispheres from the Christmas ball and connect them together.
The most difficult thing is to make sure that the edges of the hemispheres dock with each other (for this it is necessary that each round piece, when placed on a Christmas tree ball, takes up EXACTLY HALF of this ball), and does not go beyond the equator line, so to speak.
You can make any pattern of curls of salt dough on the surface of the round ball. How this one was done in the photo below. We place plastic film (non-fiber, food grade) on the ball, and add the elements of the pattern onto it. Dry on a ball. Then carefully remove and separate the cling film with your hands.
Liquid pattern
On crafts of salt dough.
In the photo below we see snow-white crafts made from polished salted dough, with an openwork pattern applied to it. Such a delicate, almost lace bas-relief can be made using the “liquid pattern” technique. We dilute the liquid salt dough and apply it with a pastry syringe or an envelope (a bag with a cut corner) - along the lines of the intended pattern.
First, let's sand the canvas - a dry, flat piece of salt dough. Then we draw the lines of the future drawing on it with a pencil, chalk, or felt-tip pen. And we begin to slowly apply a thick pattern.
By the way, the same work can be done with gypsum diluted with water (gypsum plaster is suitable).
Try it on a sample first to see how you work best with plaster or batter. How it dries, cracks when dried, or holds its shape. Try making samples with different degrees of liquid (from very thick to thin).
So, with your own hands and your brains, you can come up with and further experiment with new and new techniques for working with salt dough. Try it. Create. Be mischievous. Play some pranks.
You can add dye to the batter (food grade, or color jars that are sold in hardware stores for diluting them in white paint). Crafts with such a liquid pattern can be made to imitate New Year's cookies, and sprinkle them with grains of coarse salt, imitating sprinkles of sugar.
Crafts made from salt dough
WITH HOLES.
You can make shaped holes on pendants for toys made from salt dough. In the form of stars, hearts, just round holes.
Or you can squeeze out a whole openwork pattern from molds of different configurations.
By the way, this is how you can make an openwork snowflake from salt dough. In the photo below we see an abbreviated master class - it immediately becomes clear how easy it really is to make such New Year’s beauty with your own hands.
You can pour THERMO-MOSAIC into the holes in the raw dough, which melts in the oven. And when baked, it will spread into a colored lake inside the hole in the craft.
Instead of a mosaic, you can pour regular COLORED COLOR CANDIES - that is, candies. They will also melt and fill the hole. It will turn out to be a beautiful DIY craft, but the children won’t lick it off with their tongues.
New Year characters
from salt dough.
You can make various New Year and winter characters from the dough. For example, a snowman or penguins.
You can mold ordinary shapes from the dough, and then use paint to make them resemble the desired character.
Details can be drawn with a thin stroke with black gouache, or a black thick marker.
Complex STEP-BY-STEP modeling will allow you to make New Year's crafts with small elements. It requires painstakingness and perseverance to complete all the work detail by detail and dry everything thoroughly before painting.
Curly FLAT silhouettes can also be designed in the form of New Year's characters. Salt dough snowman - based on the silhouette of a STAR.
The simplest forms are combined and a new New Year's craft made from salt dough in the form of a SAND MAN is obtained.
To make the craft effective and voluminous, you can also use dough to make a SUPPORT for it. That is, the background, for example, is in the form of a lush bow, like in the teddy bear craft from the photo below.
The rolled out salt dough is cut into strips - they form a lush bow. Place the teddy bear craft on top of the bow and dry it all together. Then we paint, using a brush to get into all the hard-to-reach places.
And here is an ANGEL craft made from salt dough, where our technique of relief imprinting is used - on the wings and on the tunic.
You can come up with your own design for New Year's crafts made from salt dough. In any case, your character will be recognizable after you paint everything with gouache.
Santa Claus from salt dough is also made easily and in a variety of ways (as you already saw in the photo above. The beard can be made round, branched, curly, or flat and cut along the edge with scissors (as in the photo below)
You can simply make the head of Santa Claus - with a star-shaped backing, as in the photo below.
These are the ideas for crafts made from salt dough for the New Year that you found today on our website. We have many other collections with beautiful New Year's works for children of all ages. Make your New Year's happiness with your own hands and let crafts made from salt dough give you sweet pleasure from the result of your work.
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Many do it - and every time New Year's crafts with your own hands they turn out original, in their own style, even if they are made according to instructions. We invite you to make New Year's decorations from salt dough together with your children. You can package them beautifully - and you will get a DIY New Year's gift. The problem of New Year's gifts for grandparents and family friends will be solved!
To make New Year's toys from salt dough we will need:
- salt dough (100 g flour, 100 g salt, 125 ml water)
- cookie cutters
- rolling pin
- lace napkin
- ribbons
- gouache
- brush
- sponge
- bags for souvenirs
Making toys from salt dough:
- Knead the salt dough. Roll out the layer to a thickness of 3-5 mm. Place a lace napkin on top and roll it with a rolling pin two or three times (don’t be afraid to press). We got a very interesting relief.
- Using molds we squeeze out stars, hearts, houses, Christmas trees. Don't forget to make holes - then we will insert ribbons into them.
- The first stage is finished! We dry our New Year's souvenirs in the oven (convection mode, 60 degrees, 3 hours). Let it cool properly.
- Now comes the fun part! Take a brush and gouache and paint. We cover the edges with dark paint - this way our souvenirs will look neater (you can skip this step).
- We go over the finished souvenirs with a slightly damp sponge dipped in paint. This way the drawing will be more noticeable. Let it dry. We coat it with varnish, wait for it to dry, and then insert the ribbons.
- Now let's get down to the fun part - packaging the gifts. We pack three or four souvenirs in each bag, and the gifts are ready!
Discussion
There are several nuances. Firstly, such toys are heavy, if not very small. This needs to be taken into account. Christmas trees are different. Secondly, salt dough needs a thin and clear shape; any roughness immediately turns the toy into an awkward, ugly craft, and achieving a clear, beautiful shape is quite difficult. The edges can be smoothed with a wet finger for a smooth shape. In general, this is not as simple a matter as it seems.
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New Year is a wonderful time and the best time to enjoy communication with family and children. Kids love New Year's crafts and homemade Christmas tree decorations. Fiddling with dough is also one of children's favorite pastimes. By combining both, you can decorate the Christmas tree with wonderful unique toys.
In this article:
You will need:
- 1 part fine table salt;
- 1 part white table flour;
- 1/3 part potato starch;
- water for kneading.
All dry ingredients need to be mixed in a bowl and knead the mass, gradually pouring water. The mass should have a pleasant consistency - not stick to your hands, and not be too tight (do not break or crumble).
After the salt dough is ready, decide when you will paint the products. You can paint the mass immediately, or you can paint the toys after baking.
How to dry New Year's crafts?
A few words about drying. To make the dough hard, you can simply wait a few days, or bake it in the oven. You need to preheat the oven to maximum temperature, then place the salted crafts laid out on a baking sheet. Then you need to turn off the oven and do not open it until it has cooled completely. You can bake them over very low heat (like crackers), but then you have to make sure they don’t burn. Another little secret - to prevent the figures from sticking, cover the baking sheet with a baking sleeve.
Of course, not all salt dough crafts can be dried in the oven. For example, those decorated with beads or beads should be dried naturally.
How to paint the finished product?
There are several ways to make products multi-colored. Dry cosmetic pigments and water-soluble food coloring, which are used to make handmade soap, are best suited for this. If they are not available, then you can use Gouache or watercolor paints.
After the salt dough is colored, you need to carefully roll it out with a rolling pin and cut out the desired shapes using molds. Products made from dough of different colors look very interesting (as in the picture). Kids have a lot of fun doing this kind of mixing.
Another way is to make crafts from white dough and then decorate them - there are many ways. Kids will do this with gouache, older children can draw beautiful patterns with felt-tip pens or a gel pen.
Acrylic paints are a great decoration! If you use silver paint to decorate your crafts, they will look like! Paints with shiny pigments look very good!
Decor ideas
In addition to coloring, there are many ways to decorate future toys. Just do this before you dry them. For example, cut out different holes with a straw.
Or make prints and imprints with stamps or some kind of figures.
Decorate with beads, beads or sparkles!
Dough crafts decorated with cosmetic glitter look very festive! You need to cover the dry finished product with PVA glue and then cover it with glitter. You can buy them at any nail fashion store, they cost from 60 to 120 rubles.
New Year's holidays are almost at the doorstep. In this regard, many families began to worry about how to decorate their homes beautifully and unusually, so that the mistress of the coming year, the White Metal Rat, would be amazed and bestow her favor. Since this animal prefers everything homemade, through which comfort is achieved, most people resort to preparing for creativity at home. They create excellent crafts with their own hands from various kinds of available materials, which can later be used to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the entire room interior. Gifts that include a lot of love, warmth and respect for the person to whom this souvenir is presented are also quite interesting and creative. If you, too, are eager to please your loved ones with similar amenities, then check out our article, in which we will provide you with 17 photos of ideas for cool DIY salt dough crafts for the New Year 2020 in ideal shapes and colorful colors. Such wonderful tricks will interest not only adults, but also your little children, for whom this activity will be very useful and exciting. And if any difficulties arise in this area, our master classes will come to your aid. Don’t delay your holiday preparations, make the world much more interesting and colorful, richer and kinder today!
Preparing salt dough
Before you start creating holiday crafts for the New Year 2020 from salt dough, you should prepare it yourself. Allow your child to do this, who will receive in this way not only a certain experience, but also great pleasure. Arm yourself with the necessary products and get to work.
For production you will need:
- 2 cups wheat flour;
- 1 cup “Extra” salt;
- 250 gr. water.
Work process:
- To prepare the dough you need to mix flour and salt.
- Then you need to pour in water. Mix well, gradually adding the remaining amount of flour. Remember, the mass should not be liquid or sticky. By the way, to make the salted dough more elastic and shiny, you should add a little vegetable oil to it during the kneading process.
- Roll the dough into a ball and visually check whether it holds its shape. If yes, it does not spread or crawl on the table, then the material for creativity is ready.
This is how you and your children can easily and simply create with your own hands an excellent pliable material for future creations for the New Year 2020.
Video: recipe for making salt dough for crafts
Salt dough coloring process
Modeling from salt dough is, of course, a fun activity. It’s so nice to make something cool and unusual with your own hands in the form of cool figures for the Christmas tree, magnets for the refrigerator, figurines for beauty and harmony in your home, and so on. However, the further process of coloring them is not convenient for everyone and, let’s say, is within their control, since, if you take into account small children, they do not have the ability to delicately paint over all the details in their crafts, so they need a simpler option with already bright and colorful finished material. And it’s quite easy to make variegated salt dough at home. You can try to decorate it yourself in all the colors of the rainbow, rest assured, you will even like it. For the New Year 2020, such splendor will yield equally attractive creations.
Coloring methods:
- gouache;
- food colorings;
- instant coffee;
- cocoa;
- acrylic paints;
- brilliant green;
- multi-colored ink;
- mascara;
- vegetable or fruit juices;
- sparkles.
Thanks to such a variety list, you can achieve excellent results in a fairly short period of time. But you just need to remember that the dye you choose must have a liquid or paste consistency. If you received the coloring element in the form of tablets or powder, then it is advisable to dilute it with a small amount of water. All you need is a few drops of this substance, squeezed onto the salt dough for a delicate, faint shade, and if you want to achieve a more saturated color, then, naturally, more. After this, you should knead your “building” material properly, adding flour if necessary, and begin the direct creative process. But some craftsmen, after drying decorative items, still resort to re-saturating their crafts using acrylic, watercolor, and oil paints. This finishing touch will add an alluring and perfect gloss to any figurine.
New Year's mosaic made of beads and bugles
If you don’t know what crafts to make from salt dough for the New Year 2020 with your own hands for holiday home decor, then take advantage of our master class. It is very simple and therefore your children can freely work in this direction on their own, creating beautiful holiday decorations. This activity is perfect for labor lessons at school or the development of children in kindergarten.
To work you will need:
- salty dough;
- plastic covers;
- beads and seed beads;
- gold paint.
Progress:
- To get beautiful toys for the New Year tree, you need to take small lids. Perfect for coffee or other products.
- Then the parts you have chosen need to be decorated with gold paint or you can leave them as they are.
- After this, they need to be filled with salt dough, and a mosaic should be attached on top. If desired, you can use beads, glass beads or other interesting things.
- By attaching a thread to the product, you will get a wonderful DIY craft for the New Year 2020.
To expand your knowledge in the field of New Year's decorations from the above-mentioned material, made with your own hands, we recommend watching our video tutorial. From it you will learn about the existence of some secrets in this work.
Master class: 11 secrets when working with salt dough
New Year's candles
You can create a pleasant magical atmosphere for the New Year 2020 if you have salt dough candles at home. To make this kind of craft, it is important to follow all the work step by step, and the end result is a magnificent decoration made with your own hands quite simply.
To do this you will need:
- salty dough;
- cardboard;
- corrugated paper.
Progress:
- It is necessary to make rings from the salt dough, which should be put on the roll. The latter can be made from ordinary cardboard or use a base from toilet paper.
- Corrugated paper will be needed to create a visible flame that needs to be placed inside the candle. By color you can choose red, yellow or orange paper. If desired, you can place the candle on a cardboard base decorated with salt dough. This handmade craft is ready to decorate your home environment for the New Year 2020.
Christmas tree decorations made from puff pastry
Before the New Year holidays, you can organize a great entertaining activity for children related to puff pastry modeling. This process is very easy to perform and, among other things, brings a lot of pleasure, just like salt dough.
To work you will need:
- puff pastry;
- cookie cutters;
- decorations: beads, beads, rhinestones, etc.
Progress:
- The puff pastry prepared by yourself needs to be rolled out and formed into figures, which in their appearance will remind you of the approaching New Year 2020. And for this, ordinary cookie cutters are used. The resulting crafts can be left in the condition in which they are, but it is best to paint them in different colors. It is recommended to decorate the surface with beads, seed beads or rhinestones. If you prefer plastic beads, you should remember that such products cannot be dried in the oven. You can use various grains. Nowadays, handicraft stores sell a large assortment of accessories, and therefore you can buy absolutely any kind of jewelry.
- Depending on the types of shapes, you get wonderful crafts in the shape of hearts, Christmas trees, stars, etc. Cocktail tubes are used to create holes in the product, with which you can make cool patterns with your own hands. Organizing such an activity is perfect for kindergarten. The kids will probably enjoy fiddling with such a pleasant-to-touch material as puff pastry. It is as pliable and soft as salt dough. The point here is diversity, and it’s up to you, dear friends, to choose what you like best.
Don’t forget to look at our photo ideas on this topic, and we also have a cool article with many more cool crafts, go see for yourself.
Christmas tree toys “Hearts” made of puff pastry
For a festive tree for the New Year 2020, it is not necessary to buy toys in the store, because handmade crafts from puff pastry or salted dough will also look great. Moreover, independent creativity is always doubly pleasant. There are no specific instructions required here, it is important to use some recommendations and you will get beautiful decorations.
To do this you will need:
- puff pastry;
- materials for creating prints: hearts or other types of shapes;
- beads;
- ropes or ribbons.
Progress:
- You can create jewelry with your own hands using a method such as a print. To do this, you need to roll out the puff pastry or salt dough and form it into shapes as you wish. You can use baking dishes or any other utensils for this.
- To make a design on the surface of the craft, you need to attach shells to it and press a little. The result will be a shell design, but you can use leaves, twigs, etc.
- After this, it is best to decorate them with beads and beads. Painted toys look beautiful. So that they can be hung on the Christmas tree for the New Year 2020, you need to make a hole for the rope.
Browse our photo ideas to expand your imagination.
Master class on creating Christmas tree decorations from salt dough
New Year's wreath made of salt dough
What could be cooler and more noticeable than a DIY craft made from salt dough for the New Year 2020, made in the form of a wreath. Such a wonderful and quite spectacular decoration can transform not only the doors in your house or apartment, but also, quite simply, complement and clearly emphasize your New Year's decor as a whole.
To work you will need:
- salty dough;
- water;
- rolling pin;
- file;
- gouache;
- spray - paint;
- newspapers;
- an oval or round bucket as a base;
- thin tree branches;
- threads;
- a small piece of fabric;
- sponge;
- self-hardening plastic;
- ring for fastening;
- PVA glue;
- heat gun.
Work process:
- To begin with, you should make snowmen from salt dough. They can be the same as in our photo or yours personally, born from your fantasies.
- After this process, it is necessary to dry the resulting products. To do this, you will need to place your creations on a file with a stand and wait a few days for them to strengthen and harden.
- After making sure that your crafts have dried, proceed to their further transformation by painting. To do this, you can use black and brown gouache or something else, more colorful. We take a sponge dipped in paint and carefully treat our product with it.
- Then we wash off the paint with a damp cloth, making it less noticeable, but with a slight tint of brownishness. Then, using other colors, you should bring the decorative coloring to the desired result.
- After this, you need to take a small piece of self-hardening plastic and mold it into a small ball, the size of a cherry pit. Flatten it and attach a metal ring - fastening so that its upper edge slightly peeks out from behind the plastic.
- We take the newspapers you prepared and roll them into thin tubes, the edges of which should be fixed with PVA glue.
- Then we take out a bucket, which we will use as a base for making a wreath. We turn it upside down and wrap the resulting newspaper tubes around it, connecting them together with a glue gun. You should end up with an oval or a circle, it all depends on the shape of the container you choose.
- Pre-soak selected tree branches, preferably birch, in boiling water. This way they will become elastic and obedient. Then, after drying them, you should carefully wrap them around a newspaper base (circle or oval) and attach them using threads. The wreath should look lush and not glow through.
- When the DIY craft for the New Year 2020 is almost ready, it will need to be spray-coated with white and then silver paint.
- Decoration should be done using dried orange slices, berries, bows, satin ribbons, rhinestones, beads and other assortment. But most importantly, don’t forget to attach the snowmen you made earlier from salt dough.
Conclusion
