DIY sculpting: recipe. Plastic flower molding

Among needleworkers, material such as plastic is gaining popularity. For sculpting dolls, flowers, jewelry, crafts with children and so on - everywhere you can use this material. We suggest you familiarize yourself with it better.

What is sculpting plastic?

You can make crafts from different materials with your own hands: wood, fabric, clay, salt dough, wire, beads and so on. For modeling, plasticine, salted dough and plastic are the most popular today.

Plastic is, in other words, polymer clay. Very convenient material for modeling. Plastic dries and becomes durable, like plastic. At first use, it resembles a very elastic dough or plasticine. From it you can make toys, crafts, jewelry, decor elements and much more. Dry the finished craft in the air or in the oven.

Advantages of plastics:

• dries quickly;
• easy to work with;
• Does not get your hands dirty;
• does not soften during long work;
• the finished product does not lose shape over time;
• rich color variety;
• the product can be painted.

Where to get the plastic?

There are many places where to buy plastic for sculpting:

• departments for creativity in ordinary stores;
• children's shops;
• online stores for creativity;
• specialized shops for creativity.

Do-it-yourself plastic for sculpting is sold in different shades, but it is not cheap.

Do it yourself

If you do not want to go to the store, then we offer you an alternative option.

Plastic at home is made as follows:

1. To get about 350 grams of material at the output, you need to take 250 grams (1 cup) of PVA glue, 250 grams of corn starch (if you do not need a snow-white color, you can use ordinary starch), one tablespoon of Vaseline and hand cream (itself ordinary non-greasy and without silicone), two tablespoons of lemon juice.
2. From dishes and tools, take a bowl in which the ingredients will be kneaded, a spoon for stirring, a substrate, a piece of cling film or fist, a shred of cloth that absorbs moisture well, and a plastic spatula.
3. Pour all the starch into a bowl and pour in glue with petroleum jelly.
4. When the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, add lemon juice.
5. Set the microwave to maximum power and place a bowl in it for 30 seconds. Then move everything and turn the oven back on for half a minute. You can use a gas stove. Then stir the mass to thicken over low heat.
6. Lubricate the substrate with hand cream and put the mass on it, after removing the upper frozen ball. It needs to be thrown away.
7. Knead the mass as if you are working with a dough. Knead for five minutes until the slice becomes elastic. Help yourself with a spatula. With its help, pieces from the substrate are easily scraped off.
8. Roll a piece of plastic into a sausage and place it on a cloth to remove excess moisture. Put everything in the refrigerator, as the material will freeze in the air.
9. After a while, remove the cloth and wrap it in a film or bag.

DIY plastic is ready!

If you want to make the material multicolored, then divide the dough into portions and add to each desired shade of oil paints, for fabric or food colors.

Simple plastic flowers

There are many types of flowers that a beginner can make in plastic molding. For example, violets, cornflowers, peonies, daisies, roses and so on.

Basically, sculpting flowers from plastic is as follows:

1. Very small balls roll up.
2. Petals are made of them.
3. Then the petals are shaped.
4. Petals stack together.
5. The product is baked.

Optionally, you can add leaves and stalk.

Make dolls

The plastic for sculpting dolls should have a snow-white color or a slightly pinkish tint.

Features of work:

1. To make a doll, first, from the pieces of foil, form all the components: legs, arms, body, head.
2. Then roll the plastic and stick the foil details around with the cakes.
3. You can stick the foil completely around, bake the doll, and then leave it that way. And you can divide the parts in half, pull out the foil, and then glue the parts.
4. Then all the parts are joined together and the doll is painted.

The second way to make a doll out of plastic:

1. From the wire, make a frame for the doll.
2. Make a foil ball on top.
3. Plasticize the foil and form a head.
4. Then make the arms and legs.
5. In the end, fashion the body.
6. Fashion all the details: face, fingers and so on.
7. Bake the doll.

Some tips and tricks for working with plastics

• In order not to cook a new portion of plastic every time, you can make supplies. The material can be stored for a long time in a tightly closed glass jar or plastic container in the refrigerator. When you want to mold something, cut a small piece from a large supply, and send the rest back.
• It is best to use a plastic board or silicone mat as the substrate. Then the plastic for modeling with your own hands will not stick.
• At the end of the molding, all tools and the substrate must be well cleaned so that the plastic remains do not dry out and migrate to a new product the next time.
• If the craft consists of several parts that need to be connected together, it is best to use ordinary PVA glue for this.
• As additional tools and materials, as your plastic products become more complex, you may need molds (plastic or silicone), sticks (from ice cream, lollipop, etc.), caps from pens, rulers, rolling pins, and much more.