The molding of salted dough: entertainment and art
The molding of salted dough is soa universal occupation, that they can be carried away as a child, and an adult. Working with this material has all the advantages of modeling, and the additional benefits associated with the environmental safety of the test. You can mold it out even for children up to a year: a sea of pleasure and no risk.
How to prepare the dough
The molding from the salted dough suggestspreparation of working material at home. In this there is nothing complicated: the proportion of flour and water is 1: 1, salt is better to take a large, it will give the impression of transparent inclusions glinting in the light. Even when they are covered with paint, such products retain this effect. Although, if you are going to perform fine artwork, then such grains will be distracting - in this case use fine salt. When mixing it with flour, do not forget that flour is easier every two, so the amount of flour used is twice the volume of the fine salt, although the weight of these ingredients is.
How much to pour water? The classical recipe contains a recommendation to add 1 part, but it is better to focus on the type of test: it should be well molded, but not spread. One teaspoon of vegetable oil will add a mixture of elasticity and prevent cracking of the finished product.
For the youngest: salted dough fish
The molding from the salted dough develops a finemotor skills, voluntary attention and creative abilities of the child, calms the nervous system and gives an opportunity for adults to get distracted from their affairs and just talk to the baby. For a small child, tactile sensations are very important, so modeling is a great activity.
Try to create a salted dough fish. This is a simple figure that any child can do, especially with the sensitive help of parents. Ready figurine bake in the oven at the lowest temperature until a slight blush appears. Be sure to cool the figure before giving it to the child for further work.
On the salted dough the gouache falls perfectly, after drying it can be covered with a colorless nail varnish or for the hair, so that it does not leave colored marks on the fingers.
Interior decoration - a tree of salted dough
If for children modeling of salted dough is, above all, entertainment, then for real masters, it can turn into art.
Mixing dough with shallow salt, paint two thirdsit with cocoa or brown gouache, and a third leave white. On the foil for baking, put the barrel out of the brown sausages, giving it a relief with the help of longitudinal grooves (use the stack). From the trunk, lay the branches up. Now the crown. It is made of long white and brown sausages, which need to be laid out with beautiful curls and loops to create a continuity effect. Hinges can intersect with each other, overlap one another and go through each other. The main thing is that there is no pile of details, and the crown created a feeling of lightness. For this, the sausages must be really thin.
Ready to dry in the oven, and afterCoat with acrylic varnish. Colors will become brighter, and the tree will shine. Now the shape can be glued on thick paper and inserted into the frame. A wonderful gift for friends or for your own home is ready.
Subtlety and Tricks
To make the article not cracked during the drying phase,it is best to dry it in 3-4 stages with interruptions. An hour in the oven, on the very smallest fire, the product is dried, then 2-3 hours at room temperature. Turn the product over and repeat the process, and so 3 or 4 times, depending on the thickness of the dough. This applies to highly artistic things, children's handicrafts can be less - dry up later, after the final finishing.
To stick figurines to a paper it is best gluePVA, the main thing - to wait for the final drying of the glue, and only then to raise the picture: the dough is heavy, the image can crawl if done before the time
