Salty dough for modeling: how to make the right dough

Have you ever tried to make figures from salted dough? It's time to learn this simple and very exciting lesson. The pleasure from this creative process is received by both adults and kids. You can prepare a salted dough for modeling, the recipe of which is very simple. Its composition includes only flour, salt and water.

Let's dwell on the products that are part of the salt test for modeling.

Flour

The quality of the test depends on this product. The quality of flour itself is affected by the grinding level of wheat grains, and the conditions under which they mature. For products, wheat flour of the highest quality is best, but you can experiment with other varieties.

Salt

Salt is added to the dough to keep it in shape. It is preferable to take a finely ground salt. By the way, salt is also needed so that the product is not bitten by insects.

Water

Needs a clean and necessarily cold, because thanks to this, the dough will be elastic. Do not use ordinary tap water, be sure to filter it or boil it.

Recipe

The recipe for the salted dough for modeling is as follows:

• two glasses of flour
• one glass of salt
• about 125 ml of water

For better elasticity, add hand cream or vegetable oil. The dough is mixed in the same way as the usual dough for baking.

If after work you have an unused dough, do not throw it away. It can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time. Just put it in the bag to prevent drying. Read more on the video:

And now tell you what tools you might need when working with the test. These are knives and scissors, a toothpick, knitting needles, a cutting board and a rolling pin, a wire, a sheet of cardboard. To decorate the dough products you will need different seeds, laces, beautiful beads and beads, shells, bumps, twigs, in general, everything that your fantasy tells you.

Let's talk about color. Crafts can be monophonic, the color of the dough itself.

And can be colored. In this case, you can paint a ready-made figure. Keep in mind that the paints should not be very liquid, so as not to disturb the texture of the product.

You can make the dough itself colored, with this staining option the product will look more neat and beautiful. Here is an example of such work.

To paint the dough, you can use acrylic paint or gouache. The paint is added to the flour before the water is added there, then the color will be uniform.

They can be glazed to give glittering products. This is done by a special mixture, which can include milk and water, or egg and water, or strong tea tea and water. When using the latter option, the products acquire a beautiful cream shade. That's the way things look covered with glaze.

After processing, the finished work is dried in the oven at minimum temperature or naturally on the battery. Be sure that the dough does not crack. It is desirable to treat the dough with varnish, so that the product is stored longer and does not crack.

We hope that you are interested in such an exciting lesson as the modeling of salted dough. Connect to the creation of funny toys for your children, because working with the test is useful for the development of fine motor skills. Psychologists recommend doing stucco, when you need to relieve nervous tension or cope with fear. Also, the nerve endings of the fingers are massaged with the help of modeling.

If you need more detailed information on this topic, just below you will find video instructions telling and showing the process of making the test itself, modeling of toys and crafts, as well as final processing and coloring of the finished product.

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