From various materials.
You can use napkins, cotton pads and even dough.
You can safely involve in such creative work children for whom it will be not only interesting, but also useful.
Here are a few very interesting crafts for Easter, which can be made from different materials:
Dough craft for Easter: Easter eggs medallions
You will need:
Salty dough
Ruler
Dough cutter
Spatula
Tube (for small holes)
Aluminium foil
Paints (acrylic or aerosol)
Twine or ribbon.
1. Prepare salty dough. There are many ways to do this.
*If you don't want to make dough, you can replace it with polymer clay.
Here is one way to prepare salt dough:
2 cups of flour
1 tbsp. spoon of fine salt
1 tbsp. spoon of wallpaper glue
* Mix flour and salt. Add a little water to the glue (a few spoons) and wait until it swells.
* Mix flour, salt and glue - knead the dough. If desired, you can add a little water. You should get a dough that sticks to your hands.
2. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to the desired thickness. In this example, the dough thickness is 6 mm.
3. Cut out the shapes of chicken eggs from the dough.
4. Place these pans on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil or baking paper. Use a straw to make small holes so that the crafts can be hung later.
5. Bake first at a low temperature - about 100 C. After this, take out the aluminum foil and put the baking sheet back in the oven at 125 C. Try not to burn yourself. You can use parchment paper instead of foil and bake at 120 degrees for 2 hours.
After this, place the salt dough pieces on the wire rack.
You can turn off the oven and wait until the dough is still dry.
6. Start painting your pieces, and after the paint has dried, tie a ribbon and hang it up.
Crafts for Easter from pasta: large Easter egg
You will need:
Pasta of different shapes
Felt pens (markers)
PVA glue
Paint (aerosol)
Big balloon
Hot glue.
1. Inflate the balloon.
2. Using a marker, mark the place on the ball to cut out.
3. Apply PVA glue to the entire ball except the designated area.
4. Start gluing the pasta onto the ball to create a pattern.
5. When everything is dry, you need to remove the ball - pierce it with a needle.
6. It's time to decorate the craft. Here everything depends only on your imagination.
7. You can put the craft on a stand and paint it with spray paint - in this example, gold color.
DIY Easter crafts made from pasta
You will need:
Chicken eggs
Small pasta
PVA glue
Aerosol paints (if desired).
1. Discard the contents of the egg.
2. Apply PVA glue to the shell.
3. Glue small pasta to the shell (you can glue each pasta, sprinkle it, or dip it in a bowl).
4. In addition to pasta, you can use lentils or peas.
5. Once the glue is dry, paint the egg. First, paint one side, and then the other half.
Paper crafts for Easter
Easter chicken. Option 1.
To make such a craft, you first need to draw a template.
Easter chicken. Option 2.
A paper chicken can be made from paper plates or cardboard, from which you need to cut a circle. Just bend paper plate cut wings, eyes, beak and scallop in half from colored paper and glue them to the plate.
3-D Chicken
Crafts from napkins for Easter: stand
1. Prepare a paper napkin and fold it in half diagonally.
2. Fold the corners of the resulting triangle up so that they connect to the top corner. You should end up with a square.
3. Roll the bottom edge of the resulting square with a roller to the middle.
4. Now turn your design over and connect the bottom corners that are under the roller. These corners should be secured with a paper clip.
5. Turn the workpiece back over so that the paperclip is at the back. Spread the ends of the blank in different directions, and you will get a beautiful stand for an Easter egg.
We paint eggs using napkins with our own hands
1. Dip a paper towel into the vinegar, squeeze out the excess, and wrap it around the egg.
2. Place the egg on a plate or baking sheet and carefully begin adding drops of colorful food coloring.
3. When the entire egg is colored, remove paper towel and place the colored egg into the carton.
Crafts from eggs for Easter: decoupage
You will need:
White eggs
Napkins with beautiful designs and patterns
Scissors
PVA glue.
1. From paper napkin separate the topmost layer, you won't need the rest.
2. Cut beautiful drawings and patterns. You can cut with white edges and not necessarily neatly.
3. Prepare the egg and coat it with glue or egg white.
4. Glue the cut-out design to the egg, and apply a layer of glue on top with a brush.
When everything is dry, you will have a beautiful Easter egg.
Crafts from cotton pads for Easter: chicken
You will need:
Cotton pads
Yellow egg paint
Colored paper
Scissors
Chenille wire
1. Dilute yellow paint with water. Dip 2 cotton pads into the solution and color them. After this, leave the discs to dry.
2. Use chenille wire to make the chicken's feet.
3. Cut out a scallop, wings and beak from colored paper.
4. Glue all the parts between two cotton pads.
5. Glue on the toy eyes and the chicken is ready.
DIY Easter wreath
You will need:
Willow wreath (you can make your own wreath)
Plain paper napkins
Corrugated paper
Colored and regular cardboard
Scissors
Simple pencil
Hot glue
1. Making decorations for the wreath. Cut out several circles of different diameters from paper: the circle for the body has a diameter of 5 cm, for the head 4.5 cm. The more circles, the more voluminous the part.
2. Cut out 2 more circles from cardboard, each with a diameter of 2-3 cm. This will be the base of the chicken.
3. Now glue all the blanks. First, apply a little glue to the center of the first circle and glue the next one. Thus, glue all the circles together.
4. Glue the cardboard piece to one of the circles.
5. In a similar way, you need to glue another stack of circles.
6. Make small cuts on the circles, and then fluff the circles.
7. Cut out a chicken beak, legs and wing from colored cardboard. In order to fasten the body of the chicken, you should cut a strip out of cardboard and glue all the parts to it - the wing on one side, and everything else on the other.
8. Make eyes. You can use plasticine, buttons or other parts of suitable size and shape.
*If you wish, you can make another chicken in a different color.
9. We make decorative flowers and eggs. Take dust wipes. You can use felt, but it is more expensive. Cut out ovals that will play a role easter eggs, And various patterns for them.
This kind folk art became popular not so long ago, although its origins lie in the most ancient layers of Slavic culture. If you have doubts, then remember the same Kolobok: what is not an artistic product made from dough? Working with such a test is not only simple, but also accessible to everyone. Firstly, what kind of house doesn’t have a handful of flour, and secondly, this material is much more pliable than the same plaster, and much more durable than the plasticine everyone is used to. That's why salt dough crafts That's how we all fell in love.
Such wonderful sheep can decorate a Christmas tree.
If you add paint to the dough, you will get multi-colored products. It is best to use food coloring, for example, for coloring eggs.
Using stamps and paint, you can make designs on salt dough cookies.
According to some rumors, modeling from dough was invented by cooks who were bored with simply cooking. So they had fun, decorating their baked goods at the same time. But not only they appreciated the convenience of this material, its pleasantness to the touch and its flexibility to give it different forms. Like most craft supplies, dough isn't very expensive. Just like from the same plasticine, anything your heart desires is molded from dough. Both paintings and salt dough figures can be placed on walls and shelves or used as toys. A picture with flowers made from this dough will be a great gift for friends. Today, like crafts from plastic bottle, products made from salt dough are becoming more and more popular, and therefore this direction of creativity needs detailed study and a theoretical basis for it.
Not only beads are suitable for decoration, but also natural materials: cereals and seeds.
Crafts made from salt dough are durable, which means they can decorate the interior for more than one month.
Recently, this art (and modeling from dough is, without a doubt, an art) has even been given a separate name - testoplasty. But, despite the novelty of the name, no one will doubt that people began to sculpt figures from dough since the ancient times, when they first learned to make flour. The history of every civilization mentions dough modeling as an important part of religious rituals, folk art, and sacrifices. After all, both flour and water, and the bread obtained from them, are an important part of the culture of mankind as a whole. Working with dough, many manage to come up with their own names for this technique: flour sol, bioceramics and, of course, testoplasty. But no matter what they call it, the result often exceeds all possible expectations! When a masterpiece is born salt dough, this becomes a real event, because the soul invested in the craft returns a hundredfold greater return in the form of a living toy - salt dough figurines. Perhaps this is why salt dough has become such a popular material for children's creativity. of different ages. Like plasticine, products made from salt dough allow modeling of any complexity.
With proper skill, you can make such an owl.
To paint the owlet, you can use gouache, and you can fix it with manicure glue.
Today no one can say exactly how many centuries testoplasty has existed. But during this time, the procedure for working with salted dough has not changed at all. Same water and flour. And to preserve the craft from various pests, salt is added.
You can learn about the features of working with salt dough from many websites. But if you yourself have been modeling from salt dough for quite some time, then you also have accumulated experience working with this material, there are examples of work, photographs of products that can be posted on similar Internet pages. You can also create your own blogs and even websites dedicated to this art. Believe me, with the current popularity of testoplasty, your developments will be of interest to many like-minded people. At a minimum, on thematic sites they will create a personal author’s gallery for you. And even if your photographic work is not a model of perfection, professionals will bring it to mind and present it in the best light.
For Christmas decor, you can make toys from salt dough.
Fortunately, the times when dough figures were used only as sacred objects are long gone. The eras of famine and war have passed. Folk “mucosalt” gradually turned into newfangled “bioceramics”. The oldest decorative craft began to be revived as an independent applied art. Today, testoplasty is gaining more and more popularity in vocational schools and clubs. Everyone who became familiar with this art rated the salt dough as flexible and warm material, as well as a source of great pleasure from working with him. A big plus in its favor is the availability of the material for home use.
Salt dough is a very plastic material. You can make flowers and people from it.
Like these ones beautiful hearts Can be made for Valentine's Day.
Angels and hearts will come in handy for Easter.
To independently make crafts from salt dough, you can preview several master classes on the Internet. You can read step-by-step instructions, and also get acquainted with photo collections of works made from salt dough offered on various websites. This will help you gain additional inspiration for subsequent actions.
It is best to make crafts from salt dough with children.
For salted dough you will need water, flour and, in fact, salt.
As for the recipe for the dough itself, it is standard for ordinary three-dimensional figures:
- Flour - 200 grams or 1 cup,
- Salt - 200 grams or half a glass,
- Water - 125 milligrams.
It should be noted that salt is much heavier than the same volume of flour. And therefore, with the same weight, they differ in volume: salt is taken approximately half as much by weight as flour.
*And for embossed thin figures You can optionally add 15 grams of PVA glue (one tablespoon), one tablespoon of starch or wallpaper glue, which must first be mixed with water.
*There are separate recipes for strong dough for large products: one glass of flour and salt (200 and 400 grams, respectively) and 125 milliliters of water.
*Experts also offer a dough recipe for delicate work: flour - 300 grams, salt - 200 grams, glycerin - 4 tablespoons (you can buy it at the pharmacy), glue for light wallpaper - 2 tablespoons and water - 125 milliliters (you need it first mix with glue).
To facilitate the process of kneading the dough, it is better to use a mixer, which will not only greatly simplify the task, but will also make the dough much better.
To make colored dough, you can use both food dyes and aniline, but the simplest and most accessible are watercolor and gouache. An excellent chocolate color will be obtained by adding cocoa to the dough. When choosing a shade, you should take into account that during the drying process the tone will become less saturated, but when you coat the craft with varnish, the color will again return to its former brightness.
Salted dough for crafts is made in exactly the same way as for dumplings, with the difference that the components differ in content.
The dough should be tight and elastic.
Tip: let the dough sit for a few minutes.
Form cookies using stencils.
Stock up on cookie decor stamps.
Lightly wet the stamp and scoop out the glitter.
Now transfer the decor to the cookies.
Don't forget to use beads, grains and rhinestones for decoration.
Now is the time to put the cookies in the oven.
But here's another important detail: make a hole in the cookie to insert the ribbon and attach it to the tree.
And now - into the oven.
You can decorate cookies with multi-colored powder and shiny varnish.
By the way, many masters recommend adding a little vegetable oil or hand cream (about 1 tablespoon), which can give the dough extra pliability. It is also recommended to replace water with jelly made from starch - potato or corn (dissolve one tablespoon of starch in half a glass of cool water; then pour a glass of boiling water into the starch with constant stirring; after the jelly has thickened and become transparent, the resulting paste should be remove from the stove.) The dough will benefit from the paste, because it will become even more plastic. But you should not overdo it, and if the dough turns out to be too soft, you will have to mix it again with a small additional amount of salt and flour. The salted dough needs to be given more density. There are also tips to place salted dough in a plastic bag for 2 hours in the refrigerator. There it can be stored for later use.
Salt dough can be used to make an excellent decoration for the kitchen.
For crafts, stock up on gouache or colored varnish.
Salt dough makes wonderful souvenirs.
Making crafts from salt dough
You can start working with this material by doing autumn crafts from salt dough. After all, autumn is extremely rich not only in forms to imitate in the form of ripened fruits, but also in various natural materials, which can be included in the product as a full-fledged element, as well as as a reinterpreted symbolic image of some part of nature or a certain image. You can make a kind of still life in the form of a painting or bas-relief with the same apples, pears, pumpkins and other fruits and vegetables. Can you make one? volumetric crafts and place them on a plate or special stand. You can make an entire installation “Autumn Garden and Vegetable Garden” with the same fruits, or you can play with the theme of the autumn forest. In this case, along with salt dough, you can also use natural elements - cones, acorns, spruce and pine needles. Using the same technique, you can stage a fairy-tale or fantasy plot. Any autumn theme- a branch of rowan, a carpet of fallen leaves, birds flying south - can be embodied with the help of salt dough.
Be sure to involve children in sculpting.
From the master class you will see how to make a Christmas garland and beautiful Santa Clauses.
After the cookies are ready, start painting them. Don't forget to make holes.
How to do it correctly salt dough crafts, step by step presented in step by step instructions, of which there are a huge number on the Internet. What is needed for such creativity? Literally anything that is unnecessarily collecting dust around the house can be useful.
- To begin with, the most important items: a stack or knife, a rolling pin and a comb, which can be useful, for example, for making a basket. You will also need an ordinary pen, especially its rod, which is convenient for making various holes and dots in patterns, cheese holes, eyes and much more.
- When decorating crafts, as well as for exciting games With children, shaped knives for cutting cookies or ready-made sets of shaped recesses for plasticine may be useful.
- Next, you should select everything in the house that can be used to make prints, for example:
voluminous buttons, hairpins, pieces of burlap, relief lace, beads, rings, small children's toys, cake candle stands, forks and spoons, the handles of which are decorated with relief patterns, the soles of children's shoes (will also give interesting patterns), mixer parts and many other inconspicuous little things.
- To prepare salt dough, flour and salt are mixed, water is added to them, and the dough is kneaded. The degree of its readiness is determined only by the feeling of the hands. If it crumbles, add water. If, on the contrary, it stretches too softly and sticks to your hands, then there is a lot of water in it, and, accordingly, you need to add a little flour. For testing, roll a ball and make several small indentations in it with your finger. A dough that does not spread and holds its shape can be considered ready. When kneading, it is recommended to add oil, for example, vegetable oil. Thanks to this, the dough will not only not stick to your hands and dry out too quickly, but will also not become crusty during work. True, you need to remember that too good is also not good: if you add a lot of oil, the dough will begin to get dirty, and its final drying will take too long. And paints will be difficult to apply to it.
- Well, the dough is ready, now you can proceed directly to the process of modeling salt dough. It is better to make it on a board or tray: this will immediately be a good place for the dough to dry.
- In order to make the salt dough colored, it can be painted at the kneading stage itself, using food paint or gouache, which will be safe when working with small children. You can also paint the finished dried product. And in order to cook correct color, you can use the scheme:
blue color is obtained by mixing blue and white,
pink color obtained by mixing white and red,
purple we get by mixing blue and pink,
green color obtained from mixing blue and yellow,
orange color will come out when mixing yellow and red,
Brown color obtained by mixing green and red,
emerald color is obtained by mixing green and blue,
for flesh color you need to mix light pink with a drop yellow color,
and golden and silver colors will be obtained if you add gouache or acrylic of the appropriate color to it, you can also make dough with glitter by adding gel with glitter for gouache.
- Drying is carried out either in the fresh air under natural conditions, which can take too long, or in the oven, subject to certain rules:
- the temperature in the oven should be minimal;
- The oven lid should be slightly open;
- The product cannot be placed immediately in a hot oven; it must be heated gradually. You can’t take the craft out of the oven suddenly; it’s better to wait until it gradually cools down along with the temperature of the oven itself;
- It would be ideal to carry out drying in several main stages: after an hour of drying on one side, the craft should be turned over and allowed to dry from the inside out. You can also take breaks during the drying process: dry in the oven for an hour, and then in the air for a day, and again for an hour in the oven, but this time back side, and then - a day in the air;
- The drying time of the product largely depends on the size of the craft itself.
- require final finishing. After drying, the craft can be slightly browned in the oven, which will give it a natural shade. For decoration, the product is painted and varnished. When working with dough, use any paints: acrylic, watercolor, gouache - that is, those with which you like to work most. Acrylic or artistic varnish is used. You can also use ordinary construction steel, but with water based, which can be used on breathable surfaces - parquet or wood. To make some small details in a craft more expressive, you can even paint them with nail polish, which usually gives a bright glossy color.
Finishing children's crafts made from salt dough, parents are often faced with receiving defective, low-quality results. This may happen due to the assumption typical mistakes, which should be avoided at the preparation stage. For example:
- pancake flour or with some additives cannot be used for making crafts from salt dough, since the figures made from it will begin to rise during drying, like yeast dough for pies, and the craft will crack;
- iodized salt also cannot be used, since large inclusions of it will not dissolve, and subsequently the texture of the dough will be uneven, as if it were grainy;
- water should be used very cold and added in parts, fifty milliliters for each addition, after which thorough kneading should be carried out, which is associated with the likelihood of using different types of flour, which require different volumes of water;
- the salt must first be mixed with flour and only then water must be poured into the prepared mass;
- salt dough can be stored in a plastic bag or in a tightly closed container. It is best to take this dough out of the bag in small slices, because they can very quickly become crusty, and when rolled out or molded, these crusts can ruin the entire appearance of the product;
- if cracking or swelling of a salt dough product occurs, this can be explained by incorrectly selected flour: the simpler it is and without additives, the better it is for the dough and the future craft;
- You can also add rye flour to the dough: although the color will be grayer and warmer, it should not cause any cracking. A simple recipe - a glass of plain flour and a glass of rye flour, 50 grams of starch, which will also give the dough elasticity and prevent it from cracking. You can also add a spoonful of ordinary PVA glue to the dough, which adds plasticity and prevents the dough from rising;
- Crafts made from salt dough can also crack if not dried properly. As mentioned earlier, the product dries better in the air, although it takes a long time, but you want to get the result faster. Therefore, drying is most often carried out in three stages: first in the oven at the lowest temperature and with the lid open for about an hour, then a break is taken for two hours, or even overnight, when the craft dries itself, then the oven is turned on again at the minimum temperature with the lid open cover;
- when cracking appears after painting, it means that the craft is not completely dry. At the same time, the product continued to dry, and the air had no place to go, which is why the surface of the varnish or paint cracked. There is no need to rush to paint or varnish the craft, otherwise you will have to regret it later or even redo it;
- if the figure turns out to be thick, more than 7 millimeters, then at the first stage you need to take out the excess dough on the back side;
- during drying, the craft must be rotated at all stages: it dries for an hour on the front side, rests, then the craft must be turned over and dried on the back side;
- fallen parts can be reattached remarkably and discreetly using PVA glue.
To make the dough elastic, add PVA glue to it.
Just like real starfish.
Very beautiful spring birds.
These new Year decoration no worse than plastic ones.
This type of decorative art allows you to perform volumetric very realistically. crafts. Salt dough flowers- favorite products, especially for women, and for schoolgirls too. It’s very easy to make, for example, the same daisies by rolling out the dough ahead of time and making identical petals with notches. You can make them by rolling out identical “sausages” and using them, slightly flattening them, to form many petals for a flower. The centers are made from a flattened ball of dough. Twigs and leaves can be replaced with natural thuja twigs, similar to real chamomile leaves. And you can place flowers in a basket woven from “sausages” from the same salted dough. You need to paint the flowers and the basket using the simple technology given above.
This cat is the bright embodiment of Halloween.
You can make funny animal figures from salt dough. For example, such a cute tiger.
Fish and seals.
Favorite for cat lovers crafts - salt dough cats. This is generally a fertile topic in any form of creativity - in the visual arts, in literature, and even in music. After all, this graceful, wayward pet cannot but delight and inspire, especially creative people. To make your favorite Ryzhik from dough, you can go the route of decorative primitivism, or you can try to make a more believable cat. True, its dimensions will be small, because the possibilities of making products from salt dough are limited by the need to maintain the proper thickness permissible for uniform drying of the craft. Well, everything else is a matter of technique!
It is interesting to make owls, hares and baskets from dough.
The most easy crafts from salt dough can be done by rolling out a sheet and cutting it into different flat shapes using notches. The advantage of this method is the speed of production large quantity different objects, as well as in its minimum thickness, which will speed up the drying process and protect against subsequent deformation. This technique most of all allows the use of different presses and impressions. Using a similar principle, you can make a children's mosaic. To do this, you need to roll out a lot of “sausages” and leave them to dry overnight. In the morning, chips are cut from the “sausages” and again left overnight. Again in the morning a layer of dough is rolled out and given correct form(circle or rectangle). Then the chips are inserted into the fresh dough so that they leave indentations, and are immediately removed. The chips are painted in different colors, after which both the layer and the chips are left to dry.
Figures made from salt dough can be decorated with rhinestones and beads.
This is not only simple fun, but also serious correctional lesson, allowing to develop fine motor skills children, their perseverance, observation, creative imagination and to educate their aesthetic tastes. And for adults, this is an excellent way to find peace and recover from the constant bustle, even if it is highly meaningful. And believe me: you only have to try it once - and you will surely grow to love this art with all your soul. And may your creativity be a joy to you!
Crafts from salt dough photo
You can even make a pendant from the dough.
These are the decorations made from dough. who would have thought…
The most best decoration to the Christmas tree.
You can make letters from the dough and string them into a bracelet.
The dough can be used to make not only New Year's, but also autumn decor.
With the help of paint and dough strands you can easily bake such a gold and silver heart.
Do you want a new ring? Make it from salt dough!
Cover the workpiece with glitter varnish and you're done!
Adorable owl made from dough.
You can draw a penguin on the star.
This is what the baking dough looks like; it will “brown” a little in the oven.
Shiny hearts on the Christmas tree.
Autumn crafts from dough.
Crafts decorated with buttons.
And this - Easter crafts.
Salt dough flowers.
From the dough you can make a memorable thing - your baby's handprint.
You can make balls from the dough and decorate with cereals.
Salt dough rose.
Christmas wreath made of dough.
Candlestick
You can make vegetables and fruits from the dough.
Why do we love holidays? Probably because it’s nice to prepare for them: think about gifts, set the table. But there are special, bright celebrations in our lives, such as Easter. At Easter people give each other small Easter gifts: painted eggs, Easter cakes, baskets, Easter souvenirs. Children love to prepare crafts for Easter with their own hands; they are so interested in taking part in the preparation and work. We have selected the most from a variety of crafts interesting master classes for children and adults.
We offer crafts for Easter from the most simple materials, the purchase of which does not break your pocket, they are always available in any regular store.
This interesting basket for eggs can be easily made from disposable plate, wooden clothespins and tape.
Cut a disposable plate with scissors:
Glue the sides together and seal the top with paper or tape. Separate the clothespins and glue them with Moment glue. We secure the top with a thin braid.
We cut strips of paper into the bottom and make a handle from cardboard. Decorate with a bow or several.
Print out the bunny template or draw on a piece of cardboard or thick paper. We paint on both sides, glue and place a beautiful Easter egg in the paws.
We make chickens from disposable spoons, cotton pads, colored paper.
You can make the same funny bunnies:
More Easter-themed crafts: unusual egg plates. How beautiful multi-colored eggs will look on such an original plate! Cut out 4 legs and a bunny's head from white paper, and decorate the face. We put clothespins on a plate and glue paper paws to them. Place chopped white paper on the bottom of the plate.
We make a plate with chicken in the same way. Differences: yellow paper and the size of the paws.
DIY gifts for Easter
There are so many ideas for gifts for Easter, you’ll get tired of choosing. I would like to hope that our master classes will help you in your choice.
From paper
An Easter basket for the upcoming holiday can be made from an ordinary paper bag. Or from beautiful wrapping paper, maybe you have leftover candy boxes. There are many options. Multi-colored Easter eggs or delicious treats will look original in such an interesting basket.
To work you will need:
- Paper.
- Scissors.
- Ruler.
- Hot-melt gun or regular paper glue.
- Pencil.
If you took a bag for work, you need to cut off the bottom of it. Cut the side. Using a ruler and pencil, draw the paper into strips 3 cm wide.
We bend all the strips in half along the entire length.
We begin to weave a basket from the strips, as in the photo.
To prevent the parts from getting tangled, glue the strips to the top of the basket, then cut it all off. Glue the handle and glue the top of the basket.
We will make an interesting chicken stand for Easter eggs as a gift. There are several recipes for making dough.
Recipe for wheat flour dough:
- Flour - 2 cups.
- Extra salt - 1 glass.
- Cold water - 250 grams.
- Bag for storing products.
- 1 tbsp. spoon of sunflower oil.
Recipe for products made from rye flour:
- 3 cups (300 gr.) wheat flour.
- 1 cup (100 gr.) rye flour.
- 2 cups (400 gr.) fine salt.
- 250 ml water.
Rye flour gives the figures a warm bread color. To prepare any dough, mix flour and salt, then gradually pour in cold water and mix again. The degree of readiness of the dough can be determined as follows: if the dough stretches and sticks to your hands, it means there is a lot of water in it. Therefore, you need to add more flour.
To work you will need:
- The dough is salty.
- Stack.
- Vegetable peeler.
- Toothpick.
- Manicure file.
- Black peppercorns.
- Paints, brush.
- The varnish is transparent.
- Garlic press.
Roll out the flatbread to a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm, this will be the chicken’s nest itself. We make the side parts of the nest using a garlic press. We form a “straw” by moistening it with water.
Leave the work to dry for 1 day so that the dough holds its shape well in the future. Let's start sculpting the chicken. We sculpt the body blank. We need the chicken as a stand for the egg, which means we need to make a recess for the Easter egg. We take a round shape, make a notch, and sculpt the breast and neck of the chicken. Use a vegetable peeler to feather the breast.
Insert a toothpick into the chicken's neck, leaving 1.5 cm. Connect the nest and the chicken's body. Roll out the dough, make wing blanks 1 cm thick. Draw the plumage with a vegetable peeler, attach it to the body of the chicken, moistening it with water.
Next, our task is to give the chicken a beautiful tail. We take an oval cake 0.7-1 cm thick as a basis. We make the plumage with a vegetable cutter. We trim the edges of the tail with a knife to resemble the pattern of feathers. Make the cuts neat, smoothing them with your fingers. Attach the tail to the chicken's body. Place something under your tail, such as a ball or an apple. After the product dries, remove the apple.
Roll into a round ball for the head. We shape the scallop using fingers and a stack, giving it the desired look.
To make the eyes, you need to mark their location. Make dents for the eyes with a stack. Next, use a vegetable peeler to make dents so that the eye becomes shaped.
Insert a peppercorn instead of the pupil. We make a beak and sculpt it to the head.
We fasten the head and body by putting the head on a toothpick. We attach a small strip of dough to stabilize the head. Decorate the chicken neck with dough feathers. You can make “earrings” for the chicken from pieces of dough.
We sculpt chickens in the same way. Don't forget to wet the parts for better fastening.
We leave the product to dry for 1-2 days, placing them in a distant place, maybe even on a closet. After a day or two, when the chickens and chickens have hardened, we finalize the work: we plant the figures on leaves, moistening the centers with water. Leave it in the air for 1-2 days. We dry the products first in air, and then put them in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees for 1 hour. After drying, paint and cover with clear varnish.
Another option: dough figures: sculpt Easter bunnies, hens, chicks. You can make refrigerator magnets out of them, or you can make pendants on willow branches.
The fastest gift option is multi-colored paper napkins and ribbons. Wrap the boiled egg in a napkin and tie with a ribbon. Can be replaced with corrugated paper.
This funny and interesting Easter chicken can be crocheted.
To work you will need:
- Yellow yarn, 100% cotton or 50/50,
- Some orange and white yarn.
- Hook number 3.
We start knitting from the body. First 7 rows:
1st - 8 sc in an amigurami loop
2nd - knit 2 sc in each loop (16 sc)
3rd - 1 sc, 2 sc, and so on (24 sc)
4th - in every third loop add: 2 RLS, 2 RLS (32 RLS)
5th - in every 4 p. add: 3 RLS, 2 RLS (40 RLS)
6th - in every 5 p. add: 4 RLS, 2 RLS (48 RLS)
7th - in every 6 p. add: 5 RLS, 2 RLS (56 RLS)
15th - knit the 5th and 6th stitches together (40 sc)
16th - we knit 2 rows without decreasing (40 RLS)
18th - knit the 4th and 5th stitches together to decrease (32 RLS)
19th - no decreases (32 sc)
We fill the chicken with cotton wool or padding polyester.
20th - knit every 2nd and 3rd stitch together (16 sc)
21st - knit every two loops together (8 sc)
Cut the thread and carefully sew up the hole.
Wings (2 wings):
- 1st - dial 7 air. loops with yellow yarn, 1 sc in the second loop from the hook, 4 sc, 3 sc in one loop, 4 sc, conn. P.
- 2nd - 1 VP, 4 RLS, two times 2 RLS in one stitch, 3 RLS in one loop, two times 2 RLS in one loop, conn. P.
- 3rd - 1 VP, 1 sc in each loop
- 4th - 1 VP, 1 connection. p. in each loop
We knit the paws with orange yarn:
- 1st - 2 VP, 6 sc in the second loop from the hook (6 sc)
- 3rd - increase in every second stitch (18 RLS)
- 4th - row without changes (18 RLS)
Beak (1 piece)
1st - cast on 5 VP, 1 sc in the 2nd loop from the hook, half-dc, 1 dc, and 1 dc2h
Eyes (2 parts)
- 1st - 6 sc in amigurami loop (6 sc)
- 2nd - increase in each stitch (12 sc)
- 3rd - increase in every 2nd stitch (18 sc)
- The beads are different (colors are indicated next to the diagrams).
- 2 meters of thin fishing line or nylon thread.
- 2 beading needles.
To work you will need:
We start weaving from the central row from number 1 to number 2, then we perform each part separately at different ends of the fishing line, using the table.
In the egg weaving pattern, notice the double rows (12 and 13 at the top, 13 and 14 at the bottom). For a chicken-shaped keychain in the upper part, we first weave the right wing (numbers 5 to 9), and then the left wing (numbers 10 to 16). Next, we move on to the design of the head (numbers 17 to 40).
What would Easter be without Easter cakes, Easter eggs, souvenirs and angels? You can make these original Easter angels with your own hands from ordinary pasta. Pasta can be anything: stars, cones, spirals, vermicelli. Such angels can be hung on a willow branch or placed in Easter basket.
To work you will need:
- Pasta.
- Ribbons or sticks.
- Thermal gun or Moment glue.
- PVA glue.
- Salt dough balls.
Use a glue gun to connect the head (dough ball) to the body. Next, glue the ribbon to the back. We select wings from pasta and glue on top of the braid.
Thickly coat the angel's head with PVA glue and dip it into small noodles or stars. This is the "hair" of an angel.
For hands use openwork pasta. Apply glue thickly on the sides, near the wings and glue.
We paint with either simple golden paint or spray paint.
If you want to insert them into an Easter basket, insert a stick inside the pasta body and glue it, the crafts are ready.
Easter crafts made from salt dough.Equipment:
- oil for lubricating the bowl
- rolling pin for dough
1. Mix flour and salt, gradually adding water. The dough must be kneaded until it resembles a dense butter dough. Then turn the bowl over and lightly coat the bottom with oil. Place the container itself on some object so that its edges rise above the table. Roll the dough into a small ball, form it into a flat cake (the base of the basket) and place it in the bottom of an inverted bowl
2. Make long flagella with a diameter of 5 mm from the dough. Wet the outer edge of the dough piece - this will act as glue. Fasten one end of the flagellum to the edge of the cake, arrange the flagellum itself in the form of a loop and then fasten the second end to the cake. Lightly press both ends for better attachment to the base. 
3. Moisten the outer surface of the loop and attach another flagellum to it. Make a second double loop. The ends of each loop should be located in the middle of adjacent loops 
4. After attaching the loops, moisten the base with water and use a knife to make cuts on it, so that the ends of the loops will stick better to the base of the basket, and its bottom will be flatter. 
5. Roll another ball of dough and make a flat cake out of it. Place it on top of the first basket base with the ends of the loops attached to it. Lightly press the cake so that it sticks more firmly to the first base 
6. Preheat the oven to 120°C. Bake the basket in the oven (the basket is placed there along with the bowl) until the salt dough becomes hard and turns white. Remove the basket from the oven, let it cool, and then carefully remove it from the bowl. 
