Such a wonderful holiday is approaching - New Year. If you don’t know what new crafts to decorate your Christmas tree or home with, what original gift should you give to your family and friends? We will help you. Let's make with our own hands one of the main symbols of the upcoming holiday - a dough snowman. It is bright, beautiful, unusual, everyone will be delighted. Use step by step instructions with photos, described in detail below.

To work you need

To make crafts from salt dough you will need:

• Bowl
• flour (2 cups)
• salt (1 cup)
• water (depending on flour, about ¾ part flour)
• 2 glasses (large and small)
• tea spoon
• clear varnish
• paints
• ribbon

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Let's start by making the dough. Take the prepared bowl and pour the ingredients for the dough into it (flour, water, salt). All this should be mixed well until smooth.
2. After looking at the resulting consistency, track the required amount yourself. If the dough crumbles when you take it, add a little water. If the dough sticks to your hands, add a little flour. You can add hand cream (1 tablespoon) to our dough, or vegetable oil, then the dough will be more flexible, yielding and pliable. When adding any component, stir the dough so that the mass remains homogeneous.
3. The dough turns out dense and flexible. If it is soft, then add a little more flour and salt, mix and check the result, repeat if necessary.
4. It is better to put the prepared dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours (but be sure to wrap it in a bag to prevent it from drying out) so that it can rest.
5. If you want to give your craft a certain smell, then drop it into the dough or just add a little spice.
6. The dough we made dries quickly enough in the air, so you should constantly cover it with a container or keep it in a bag (if you are going to make a lot of crafts).
7. Now take and roll out two pieces of dough, using glasses (one larger, the other smaller) to make two circles. To do this, use a glass to squeeze out the dough into the desired shape.




8. Place the smaller circle at the top and leave the larger circle at the bottom. The body and head of the snowman are ready.




9. Now take a teaspoon and carefully lightly draw a smile with the end, pressing down a little.




10. We ended up with such a cute mouth.




11. Now let's take a little more dough and make a hat for our snowman first. To do this, we will roll out the dough, squeeze out a circle with a small glass and cut a hole in it for the face, put it on our face. Then we put a strip on top of the cap (our edging). Using a spoon, we will make two eyes and carefully sculpt a nose from the dough. If the parts do not stick well to each other, you can moisten them a little with water at the base.




12. Then we will mold the snowman’s handles from the dough, and also glue them to the base (our body)




13. Now let's make two small balls and glue them to the body - these are our buttons. And then in order to hang our decoration in the hat, we will make a hole for the ribbon.




14. Our figurine is ready, now we bake it in the oven. This should be done at a not very high temperature so that our snowman does not burn or get burned. It can also change color and shape. It should be cooked for about 30 minutes, it all depends on the thickness of the figurine, the time can reach up to an hour. We advise you to leave the product in the air for a while so that it dries first, and when it goes into the oven, it does not crack.
15. After we take the figurine out of the oven, let it cool. And we begin to give it color and brightness. Let's decorate our craft with paints. You can use any colors that suit your taste.
16. After the paints have dried, coat the craft with colorless varnish. Let it dry completely as well.
17. Now we pierce the ribbon into our pre-prepared hole.

DIY dough snowman Such a beautiful holiday is approaching - New Year. If you don’t understand what new crafts to decorate your Christmas tree or home with, what unusual gifts should you give to your family and friends? We will help you. Let's create with our own hands, without the help of others, one of the main signs of the approaching holiday - a snowman made of dough. It is catchy, beautiful, extraordinary, everyone will be in ecstasy. Use the step-by-step annotation with photos described carefully below. For work you need To make crafts from salt dough you will need: a bowl flour (2 cups) salt (1 cup) water (depending on the flour, about? part of the flour) 2 cups (large and small) teaspoon dull varnish paint ribbon Step by step abstract: Let's start with the production of dough. Take the prepared bowl and pour the ingredients for the dough into it (flour, water, salt). All this should be mixed well until smooth. After looking at the resulting consistency, track the required amount yourself. If the dough crumbles when you take it, add a little water. If the dough sticks to your hands, add a little flour. You can add hand cream (1 tablespoon) or vegetable oil to our dough, then the dough will be more flexible, pliable and pliable. When adding any component, you should stir the dough so that the mass remains homogeneous. The dough comes out dense and flexible. If it is soft, then add a little more flour and salt, stir and check the result, repeat as necessary. It is better to put the prepared dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours (but be sure to wrap it in a bag to prevent it from drying out) so that it settles. If you want to give your craft a certain smell, then drop it into the dough or just add a little spice. The dough we made dries out quite quickly in the air, so you should always cover it with a container or keep it in a bag (if you are going to make a lot of crafts). Now let’s take and roll out two pieces of dough, using glasses (one larger, the other much smaller) to create two circles. To do this, use a glass to squeeze out the dough into a suitable shape. Place a smaller circle at the top and leave a larger circle at the bottom. The body and head of the snowman are ready. Now we take a teaspoon and carefully, lightly draw a grin with the end, pressing down a little. We ended up with this cute little mouth. Now let’s take a little more dough and make a hat for our snowman first. To do this, we will roll out the dough, squeeze out a circle with a small glass and cut a hole in it for the face, put it on our muzzle. Then we’ll put a stripe on top of the cap (our edging). Using a spoon, create two eyes and carefully sculpt a nose out of the dough. If the parts do not stick well to each other, then you can moisten them with little water at the base. Then we’ll make handles for a snowman from the dough, and also glue them to the base (our body). Now we’ll make two small balls, glue them to the body - these are our buttons. And in order to hang our decoration in the hat later, we will create a hole for the ribbon. Our figure is ready, now we bake it in the oven. This should be done when not very the highest temperature so that our snowman does not burn or get burned. It can also change color and shape. It should be cooked for approximately 30 minutes, everything depends on the thickness of the figure, the time can reach up to an hour. We recommend that you leave the product in the air for a while so that it dries out first, and when it goes into the oven, it does not crack. After we take the figurine out of the oven, let it cool. And we begin to give it color and brightness. Let's decorate our craft with paints. You can use any colors that suit your taste. After the paints have dried, coat the craft with dull varnish. Let's also let it dry one hundred percent. Now we pierce the ribbon into our hole prepared in advance. Our beautiful snowman is ready! It is catchy, eye-catching and extraordinary. Fantasize, create your own images from dough, use paints from others different colors. Make your family and friends happy! Fortunes at work!

Every parent knows how much their child loves to tinker with all kinds of modeling materials. Plasticine, regular dough, whatever. Offer him puff pastry. The material is extremely cheap, but incredibly functional. New Year is just around the corner. There is a reason to spend a lot of fun moments with your child.

Or simply create wonderful souvenirs that are not sold in stores and will be a wonderful gift for colleagues, acquaintances and friends.

Make a cute snowman from salt dough that will lift your spirits even on gray winter evenings.

What you will need for the snowman:

• Salt.
• Flour.
• Water.
• Toothpick as a modeling tool.
• Blue gouache.
• Garlic press is like an extruder.
• PVA (optional).
• Starch (optional).
• Artistic small brush.

Let's get started. And the first thing you should do is come up with a future sketch of the figure. As an example, a snowman can be made from two circles, wearing a hat and scarf, with a snow broom in hand.

It depends on the test what kind of snowman you end up with. Fragile and unreliable or strong and knocked down. So we mix it conscientiously. Use a mixer in the process - this will make the task easier and the material for modeling will turn out best quality. Although you can knead the dough simply with your hands, most importantly, do not forget to wear gloves since the salt will sting a little before dissolving.

The most common recipe for salt dough is this: two parts of flour, without exceeding the volume, you can mix in dry starch. Starch will give the dough elasticity. Elastic dough makes good small parts. Well, we digress, add some salt to the flour, very finely ground. Next, water. It must be introduced into the dough carefully, in small portions. The dough should reach the consistency of soft plasticine or a little softer and be elastic. And yes, if you want to make the dough stronger, add 2 tablespoons of PVA glue before adding water.

The result should be a homogeneous white elastic mass. Form it into a ball and wrap it in cling film or a simple T-shirt bag. The main thing is to seal it tightly and put it in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. During this time, the salt will completely dissolve, the starch will react with the other ingredients, and the flour will add a paste.

Let's start with the color test. The next batch is identical to the previous instructions. Only during the process should you add dye.

Let's start building a snowman

Decorating the head

Form two balls of uncolored dough. One is more, the other is less. You can take a white sheet of paper as a basis for laying out the figure. Next, place the smaller ball on the paper and flatten it into a flat cake shape. Because the salty dough quickly becomes crusty, you should either cover the cake with a piece of white paper, or immediately start decorating the snowman's head. Place a snowman body under the smaller cake. Flatten it about the same way as your head.

Take a toothpick and shape the mouth. Gently scratch and press the face of the future snowman. First, he outlines the locations of the eyes, lightly placing dots in the right places on the head-cake. And around these points we form something like the rays of the sun, shallowly pressing the dough. Tear off a little dough and form two tiny identical balls.

Lightly moisten the areas marked for the eyes with a brush dipped in water. Helping yourself with a toothpick, place small balls in the places for the eyes, pressing, but not too much. Take the blue dough and form two very small balls in the same way. Which we then turn into pancakes. And we place eyes on the balls - these will be the pupils. We also pinch off just a little bit of the blue dough and roll into miniature sausages, which we place above the snowman’s eyes. Eyebrows are one of the main means of conveying emotions, so make sure that your snowman's eyebrows do not make him angry or sad. We tear off a piece of blue dough and form a small icicle or carrot, most importantly not long, since this part can break off. This is the nose. Place carefully under the eyes on the pre-moistened dough. Then we press the toothpick into the snowman’s mouth.

Legs and arms should be attached to the body cake. From the uncolored dough we form two sausages of equal length, slightly thicker at one end. We place them on the body. These will be the hands. We place one arm, with its thickening toward the hand, along the body, and place the second arm as if holding something, bent at the elbow. This hand can hold a shovel or broom.

Next we sculpt the legs. From the blue dough we form two elongated drops of the same size and place them on one straight line under the snowman’s body, with the thin ends inward, slightly flattening them. We attach all the parts with a brush and water. Well, if an embarrassment does happen and after drying some part falls off, it can be glued back using PVA glue.

Dressing up a snowman from salt dough

Let's make a hat. There is a huge field for imagination here. The hat can be fashioned in any size and shape. But for example, let’s choose the most ordinary hat with cuffs. From a small and fairly wide blue dough pancake we make something like a crescent with an elongated middle part. We apply it to the head and “dress” it like a cone. We form a small sausage from the same dough and carefully place it in the place of the lapel, between the naked and the cap. Flatten it a little. Use a toothpick to apply any pattern you like. You can get by with simple dots and it turns out very nice.

The next step is the scarf. It should be “wound” around the snowman’s neck. It will consist of two parts. Roll out the blue dough into a small rectangle and separate one of the narrow ends with a toothpick, forming a “fringe”. The scarf will be wrapped around the neck, as it were, and therefore the section of the scarf that is thrown on the shoulder is placed on the body first, being glued with ordinary water. Then the part that wraps around the throat. Steal a scarf in a pattern with a hat.

Making a panicle

A toothpick with previously broken off sharp ends is perfect for the role of the shaft of a future panicle. This can be done with scissors, usually cutting off the excess. The cut will be smooth.

Next, put a ball of blue dough into the garlic press and squeeze out many threads of the same diameter. We even them out in length and assemble them into a bundle. Place the prepared toothpick inside the bundle. We “give” the finished broom into the snowman’s hand and “tie” a bunch of blue threads with a thin thread from ordinary dough.

That's it, the work on sculpting the snowman is completed.

We design the figurine

The dough needs to be dried. At this stage, it is risky to heat and cool the product too much. Because the dough may crack and then the work will be lost forever. Of course, you can dry the product in the most traditional way - on the windowsill, in the sun. Still, the risk of cracks is always present. And the thicker it is, the more serious the risk. But those who don’t take risks don’t eat tangerines on New Year’s Eve according to carriage norms. Dry in stages. By the way, you can use the microwave oven in the “Defrost” mode. Staged drying means that you dry vigorously in periods and periods of letting it dry on its own. Heated it a little in the oven, took it out, cooled it, and repeated.

When the product is completely dry, to add gloss and extend its service life, open it with varnish.

That's all. You can present a salt dough snowman just like that without unnecessary decorations, or glue a magnet and present it as a decoration on the refrigerator, or glue a ribbon and use it as a pendant on a Christmas tree. Happy New Year!

Modeling from salt dough is fascinating and simple technique, which will be interesting to both kids and older children. And parents will be happy to join the process. For work you will need acrylic paints, acrylic varnish and PVA glue.

Preparing the base

Classic salt dough consists of flour (2 parts), salt (1 part) and water (1 part). It is best to take premium wheat flour. You cannot use pancake bread - it contains additional components that lead to cracking of the crafts when dried. The same rule applies to salt - take “Extra” of the finest grind. The dirtier the salt, the more untidy it will look. ready product. The water must be cold, or better yet, ice-cold. You can add a little starch to the standard components (it adds plasticity) or wallpaper glue (it increases strength). But this is a matter of taste.

Please note that flour, salt and water should be measured by volume, not by weight. You can use a small cup or glass as a measuring tool. Dissolve salt in water, then mix it with flour and knead the dough thoroughly on the table. It should not stick to your hands. If necessary, add more flour.

IMPORTANT! The master class uses classic white dough, but it can also be tinted. To do this, add food coloring or a drop of gouache to the water. Please note that during the sculpting process your hands will get very dirty.

Let's make a snowman

Photo 1. On thick paper draw a template for the future snowman and cut it out. Roll out the dough not too thin, place a template on it and cut along the contour with a sharp knife.

Photo 2. Wet your fingers with water and carefully align and smooth the edges of the workpiece.

Photo 3. Using a regular paper clip, make a loop for the ribbon.

Photo 4. To do this, secure a paperclip at the top of the dough.

Photo 5. Roll the dough into two small thick sausages. Make one edge a little flat.

Photo 6. Grease the sausages with PVA glue and glue them to the body of the snowman.

Photo 7. Make another sausage and shape it flat. We form a scarf from this sausage.

Photo 8. In the same way, make the edge of the scarf, as if hanging down. Using a knife, “draw” small indentations on this part.

Photo 9. Make a sausage out of the dough, flatten it slightly and glue it (with PVA glue) to the top of the head. Use a knife to make perpendicular indentations.

Photo 10. Make a carrot nose from the dough and glue it on.

Photo 11. Use a knitting needle (or something else sharp) to make indentations along the body of the snowman. Dry the finished figurine. If any part breaks or falls off during the drying process, don’t worry! Everything is perfectly and imperceptibly glued back with PVA glue or “Moment”. Small cracks, unevenness and swelling can be smoothed out perfectly with small metal files (needles).

Photo 12. When the snowman is dry, we move on to decorating.

Photo 13. Paint the snowman's body, arms and face white.

Photo 14. Hat and scarf - red, add white dots. Color the carrot nose orange.

Photo 15. Add black eyes and buttons. All that remains is to thread the ribbon through the loop and hang the finished snowman on the tree.

Drying rules

Salt dough pieces must be properly dried. Temperature changes can cause crafts to crack. Therefore, choose the most suitable method and follow the rules:

• Natural drying. To do this, just lay out the products on a sheet of paper in a room with a temperature of 20-25 degrees. Under no circumstances should workpieces be placed near heating radiators. The method is simple, but very time consuming.
• Drying in the oven. Place the crafts in the oven that has just been turned on and dry, gradually increasing the heat. Periodically turn the workpieces so that the moisture leaves evenly. Do not remove hot items immediately after switching off - let them cool together with the oven.
• Mixed drying. First, the crafts are dried in the open air, then in the oven.

If you decide to do dough making on a regular basis, you will need rubber cutting mats (the dough won't stick to them), a set of plastic stacks, and a spatula with a thin edge for turning the pieces. For the first experiments, ordinary kitchen utensils are quite suitable.

To cut crafts, you can use a set of children's stencil molds; beads, small beads, small buttons, skewers for canapés and other available materials are suitable for decoration. Happy creativity and bursts of inspiration!

Salt dough is the simplest, most environmentally friendly and affordable material for children's crafts. Today we will tell you what kind of dough you can use and what else you can make with your child.

The long-awaited one is coming soon. Preparations for this wonderful holiday always begin about a month before it, or even earlier. They especially love preparations for New Year's holidays children. They are happy to take part in the production. So that you don't have to worry about the safety of materials for children's crafts, prepare salt dough and let your child make his own New Year's toys.

Children's can become not only a wonderful decoration for the apartment for the holiday, but also a nice gift for family and friends.

How to make salt dough: recipe

Incredibly simple, the main thing is to maintain the proportions and mix well. You'll need:

• 1 cup flour
• 0.5 cups salt (non-iodized)
• 125 ml water

You need to mix water into the dough gradually, achieving a uniform, smooth mass. For large and volumetric crafts It’s better to take 2 cups of salt, without changing the amount of flour and water. You can store the finished salt dough in the refrigerator, be sure to wrap it in a bag.

Master class on how to make a snowman from salt dough for the New Year

Salt dough, which a child can make with his own hands with just a little help from you, will become a wonderful Christmas tree decoration, a holiday gift or a favorite toy.

For a children's craft for the New Year "Snowman" you will need:

• blue gouache
• spadefoot
• toothpick
• acrylic lacquer

1. Prepare salt dough from water, flour and salt. Divide the play dough into two parts: larger and smaller. The smaller part of the dough needs to be colored Blue colour using gouache.

2. Now you can start: from white dough you need to make two cakes of different sizes for the body and head of the snowman. As soon as you have sculpted the head, immediately form the mouth and eyes using a toothpick. Now attach the arms and legs.

3. Make a hat of the desired shape from blue dough; you can apply a design with a toothpick. Next, roll out a rectangle of blue dough - this will be a scarf, make the desired pattern on it. Next, make the buttons.

4. Insert a toothpick into the snowman’s hand - this is the base of the broom. You need to squeeze out a little blue dough through the garlic press, shape it into a broom, let it dry a little, and then put it on a toothpick.

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5. Finished snowman You need to dry it well and coat it with acrylic varnish - this will give brightness to the children's salt dough craft!

Crafts made from salt dough for the New Year: the best photo ideas for children

In order not to limit ourselves to just a snowman, we have collected more that can be made from salt dough. Such New Year's toys will be wonderful or home decor.

And if you add a little cinnamon and cocoa to the salted play dough, you will get not only beautiful, but also good-smelling toys that will fill the house with the incredible aroma of the holidays.

Your children will definitely enjoy making such New Year's crafts from salt dough. Yes, and you can try to create something original with your own hands. If you don’t want to encroach on the material for sculpting your child, similar ones can be repeated. Use your imagination and have fun preparing for the New Year 2020!