If you do not know what to do with your child in his spare time and like to build all kinds of crafts, you will definitely like the idea of creating animal figures from dough. Salted dough lamb is very easy to make. Moreover, for such a homemade toy you will need a simple set of products: flour, salt and water. All the necessary information is presented below.
How to make salt dough for crafts?
Making lamb with your own hands from the dough is not difficult. The main thing is to knead the dough correctly. So, for work you need to prepare:
- 1 kg of flour and the same amount of salt;
- 500 ml of water;
- natural dyes (coffee, cocoa).
As devices you will need: a knife, garlic gadget, toothpicks, cotton buds. When everything is prepared, you can begin to knead the dough. To do this, connect all the components. We try to knead the dough thoroughly. The longer this process, the more plastic it will be. To give the dough a light coffee hue, one of the prepared dyes is added to it.
You can also color the lamb from the salt dough after they are done. To head securely attached to the body, use toothpicks. Finished figures must be placed in an oven heated to 50 degrees, and the products should be dried until completely dry. There is another way to dry the lamb. To do this, they must be exposed to the sun.
Option number 1
Well, let's start our master class. Salty dough lamb can have different sizes. Having decided on the parameters of the future figure, you can get down to business. To do this, separate the pieces from which the head, torso, ears and tail will be molded from the dough ball.
Nipping off the pieces, they need to be rolled into cylinders. The ears must be teardrop-shaped. But as for the head, it will be nice if it is pear-shaped. That part, which is wider, will act as a muzzle, the narrow one will become the back of the head.
Once all the elements are ready, you can start assembling the little animals. The body must be put on its feet, and then attach the head to it. To this end, toothpicks should be used. One part must be thrust into the head, the second - in the body of a lamb.
The same actions can be done with the paws. In this case, the toothpicks need to be divided into parts.
Lamb from salt dough (photo below) look very cute.
But what kind of a sheep without a peephole? To make the figure more attractive, you need to make eyes from the remaining test and attach them to the face. After this, you need to make small bagels from the test and place them above the eyes.
You can make a lamb curly as follows: it is necessary to cling to it with dough circles. In each of them you can make a hole with a bamboo stick or a toothpick.
After that, ears and a tail can be attached to the body of the animal. Once the figure is assembled, it must be sent to the oven for half an hour.
Second option
You can make lamb from salt dough more voluminous. To do this, you need to take the foil and form a body with its help. After that, the figure can be wrapped with foil, which will speed up the drying process.
To simulate the wool of a lamb, you should take a device for crushing garlic. Use it to squeeze out the salt dough. The resulting curls must be attached to the craft. Next, the figure must be sent to the oven and thoroughly dried for an hour and a half, at the end of the process, lightly brown, adding the temperature in the oven. As a decor, multi-colored flowers from salt dough are perfect.
Lamb magnet
Crafts from the dough have a lot of purposes. Lamb from salt dough can be used as Christmas toys, decor items in bedrooms and children's rooms, funny fridge magnets.
The latter option is very simple. The baked lamb from the dough must be glued to the base circle of the same material. As wool, heads from cotton buds are suitable. A magnet must be glued to the back of the base.
Finally
Now you know how to make the cutest lamb from salt dough. A master class of such a plan is not at all complicated. If you spend a little more time on this, you can make a whole family of funny lamb.