Salty dough is a soft, plastic and convenient material for making crafts. Children really like modeling from dough, since it is much easier to work with it than with plasticine. Consider how to cook it and what crafts on the theme of "Autumn" from salt dough can be done with a child.
Dough Recipes
It’s easy to make salt dough for crafts. There are several recipes for making the mixture. Let's get acquainted with a few. Try each one and choose the most convenient one for yourself. It is only necessary to observe proportions correctly.
1. 500 g of premium flour must be mixed with 200 g of small table salt. Then pour 200 ml of cold water into this mass. Then you need to mix everything thoroughly. The material is ready, you can start doing crafts on the theme of "Autumn" from salt dough.
2. Pour a glass of fine salt into a bowl and add half a glass of hot water. After dissolving the salt in water, gradually add a glass of flour in small portions. All are thoroughly kneaded so that lumps do not form. At the end, a tablespoon of vegetable oil is added. When the mixture stops sticking to your hands, you need to put it in a bag and put it in a cold place for a couple of hours.
3. Pour 500 g of flour into 200 ml of water and mix thoroughly. Then pour 2 cups of PVA glue. After kneading, a stable mass will be obtained, from which crafts on the theme of "Autumn" from salt dough will be stored for a long time, they can be tinted and painted.
How to dry crafts?
After the craft is made, it needs to be dried. If you just leave it at room temperature, then it will not harden completely. Wet dough will remain inside, over time, the product will deform and “float”. Yes, and you can’t paint such a craft.
To make the product durable, you need to thoroughly dry it over its entire thickness. To do this, you can use the oven. Drying time depends on the size of the crafts on the theme "Autumn" from salt dough. If the dough is thin, then half an hour is enough at a temperature of 100 degrees. If the product is thick and large, then you need to increase the time to an hour.
Salted Hedgehog
To make such a hedgehog, you will also need a pine cone, which will fulfill the role of thorns. First, as in work with plasticine, you need to roll a round ball from which the beast's face is made by pulling. A ball is rolled from a small piece and glued to the nose. Eyes are made by piercing holes with a sharp object. You can use the stack for plasticine or just a pencil.
Then you need to roll paws out of four identical pieces. Hedgehog assembly begins. The head clings to the cone in front by indentation, and 4 paws from the bottom. On the "spines" of the hedgehog, you can attach separately stuck leaves or an apple.
Another hedgehog
This version of the hedgehog from salt dough is the easiest. It can be done with three year old babies. From the rolled ball is drawn the face of the animal. Eyes and nose can be blinded separately, and can be painted with black paint.
Hedgehog needles are made from small vermicelli, which is simply stuck in the upper body. Everything, the hedgehog is ready!
Autumn vegetables
It is very easy to sculpt vegetables from salt dough. Before sculpting, you must definitely have a conversation with your child, remember what vegetables he knows, where they grow, what color. Consider either the vegetables themselves, or their image in the pictures.
It is also advisable to repeat what form these vegetables are, how to sculpt them better. Next, the sculpting process itself begins. Turnip and beets are molded from a large bowl by pulling the center of the root tail in the center. If you wish, you can separately mold the tops and attach them on a flat side with a bunch together.
Parsley root and carrots are molded by rolling the "sausage", then one side of the product is made thinner. From above, several branches are inserted in the middle.
Tomato is also made from round billets. In the center from above, you need to attach the tail. Cucumber is rolled out of the "sausage", rounding off the ends.
After drying, the vegetables are painted.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms can be made from salt dough as autumn crafts. First, with the child, you need to consider what form they are. There are ordinary with a round and even hat. This is boletus, boletus, mushrooms, boletus. For older children, you can suggest trying to mold foxes or a colorful fly agaric.
After the mushrooms are ready and thoroughly dried, they need to be painted. To make the mushrooms bright and shiny, the finished product is covered with acrylic varnish.
Product painting
There are two ways to stain salt dough. After sculpting and drying, the finished product is simply painted with acrylics or plain gouache. With preschool children, this method is the best.
If you want to make interesting crafts for decorating rooms, you can buy food coloring and add it at the stage of kneading the dough. Then the color of the dough will be uniform, and the decor will be bright.
It is easy to work with salt dough, as its structure is plastic and soft. Imagine and create for your pleasure with the kids!