Angelika Smolnikova
Easter is coming soon, I suggest making a souvenir
Look what a miracle
Did mom put it in the dish?
There is an egg, but not a simple one:
Golden painted,
Like a bright toy!
There are stripes, curls,
Lots of little rings
Stars, circles and hearts.
What are all these colors for?
Like in a good old fairy tale?
Mom gave everyone the answers:
Easter is the brightest holiday!
And the egg, I know,
Symbol of life on earth!(
We will need:
salty dough(can be colored, water, brush No. 3, stack, gouache, rolling pin, plungers, chicken egg.
The plunger is an object consisting of two parts made of plastic - internal and external. A spring is connected between these parts, on which the entire operating principle is based. Place the plunger on the rolled out salt dough, press on it and release the pressure. A spring is triggered and a cut-out silhouette remains on your piece of dough, or a traced image of a flower, heart, star, or something else. And then it’s a matter of imagination and artistic ideas for future work. Buying them is not difficult; you can order them in the online store. Plungers are used by confectioners to decorate culinary products.
My kids, who are involved in circle work on testoplasty, really like working with plungers and decorating their crafts. Try it too.
Completing of the work:
1. To make a blank you need a whole eggshell. We make two small holes in the chicken egg and blow out the contents.
2. Roll out long sausages from the salt dough and roll them into flat strips with a rolling pin. We wrap these strips around the egg, as shown in the photo. Here, of course, the child will need your help so that when wrapping it in a layer of dough, the egg does not crack. You can completely cover the shell with dough; I decided to make it hollow inside. Using the second option, we leave the foreground of the shell unfilled.
3. Place the egg on a sculpted platform - a stand. Our preparation is ready.
4. Using plungers, we prepare flowers and place them on the workpiece (to prevent small parts from deforming when attaching them to the base, moisten the gluing areas with a brush dipped in water). We supplement the composition with leaves, it all depends on your imagination.
5. Now you need to make a small figure that will be located inside the egg. It could be a chicken, a candle, etc.
6. Dry the product. Best at room temperature, or in the oven at about 80 degrees.
7. After the craft has dried, you need to carefully remove the shell from the foreground
8. Place a small figurine in the inner part.
9. If you sculpted from unpainted dough, then paint the craft with gouache paints.
10. You can decorate your work with beads, satin ribbons, coat with varnish.
The work is very interesting and not very difficult for children. Create, imagine.
Easter crafts, made from salted dough, can decorate the Easter holiday in the best possible way, making it warm and joyful. An Easter egg made from salted dough on a stand will best help convey the mood of this wonderful holiday. Dough crafts do not require much time to make, and the pleasure of modeling and coloring is simply indescribable. The kids are delighted, and so are the parents!
Crafts from salt dough: DIY Easter eggs
The master class of this craft will allow you to cope with the task without difficulty.
You can, of course, roll the entire egg from the dough. It will just take a very long time to dry, it will be quite heavy and may crack and swell when drying. Salted dough gives a good result if its thickness in the product does not exceed 7 cm.
Therefore it is best to do Easter eggs– dummies on a frame. In this case, the best option is an empty eggshell. To prepare it, you need to make two small holes in a raw egg with a sharp object - a darning needle, or the tip of a knife. The inside of the egg is blown onto a plate to be used as food.
Now you should start preparing the mass for modeling. A cup of regular flour (without impurities), half a cup of finely ground salt are poured into a bowl and mixed. Water is added little by little to the mixture and everything is mixed immediately. Then the dough is kneaded on the table. It should have the consistency of dumplings.
An empty shell is placed on the rolled out pancake.
Then the entire frame is wrapped in dough, the seams are smoothed out with fingers dipped in water, and the surface is leveled by rolling the egg on the table. At one end, you should make a puncture in the dough shell in the place where the shell has a hole, otherwise during baking, the air that has increased in volume from heating will cause an unsightly swelling. 
From a thinly rolled piece for modeling mass, letters, flowers, berries, leaves are cut out with a sharp knife - everything that the master’s imagination suggests. Having moistened with water the side of the future bas-relief with which it will be attached to the main part, the sculptor carefully applies the applique in the right place. Using fingers dipped in water, carefully smooth out the seams so that there are no cracks.
You can emphasize the border of the bas-relief using a knife. The point should be applied with the flat side - the sharp part should be directed directly to the line where the bas-relief rises above the plane.
You can bake an egg in a regular oven, but it is preferable to do it in a microwave. The mode should be set to “defrost”, time – 1 minute. This will be a test firing. To prevent the egg from becoming deformed, it is best to place it in a cup with flour. Then, at the point of contact with the plane, dents do not form on the egg.
After checking, you can putty: use pieces of soaked dough to fill the resulting unevenness and cracks. If, after all, swellings have formed, they can still be cut off with a knife or scissors so that the “repair” area can be covered with a wet mass.
Now you can “burn” the egg in a microwave oven in the usual way, but it is better to do this in several steps for 2 minutes, checking the result each time.
After “baking” the egg is painted with watercolors, acrylic paints or gouache. After drying, you can coat the product with regular colorless wood varnish or spray it with hairspray.
Modeling on the theme “Easter” involves making an egg stand. It is most convenient to perform the stand in three stages. First you need to form a cup. For this, the master can take a plastic cap from an air freshener or dichlorvos. First you need to lubricate it with oil: Vaseline, sunflower, margarine. Then you need to carefully cover it with a thin layer of rolled out dough and smooth out the joints. 
After spreading the dough in an even layer, you need to cut off the excess with scissors. The lid should protrude slightly above the dough. It is possible to make a “roller” along the edge of the “glass”; you can decorate the stand with a bas-relief.
The “cup” can now be placed in the oven with the bottom up. After 1 minute of “baking” in the “defrost” mode, the part is removed from the cabinet, and the mock-up lid is easily removed. 
The leg rolls out of small piece dough, attach the moistened end to the bottom of the cup, the attachment point is smoothed with wet fingers. The part is again placed in the oven, which is turned on to “defrost”. Place the part with the leg up and “bake” for a minute. 
For stability, attach a metal lid covered with dough to the leg of the stand. Don’t forget to moisten the attachment point and carefully smooth the seams! It is better to dry the product upside down for the first time. 
After the last baking (at normal temperature), the stand-glass is painted with watercolors, gouache or acrylic paints and varnished.
This decoration can last as long as you like: a year, two or longer. But you need to remember that this product is fragile and should not be dropped. And it is not recommended to wash the egg with the stand with water.
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 ball - 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. 
Holy Easter is one of the most anticipated holidays of the year. Both adults and children look forward to it. And the main reason for this is not only the religious significance of this day, but also the delicious treats that every family prepares on this important day.
We would like to offer you a master class on making dough crafts for Easter with your own hands.
Easter basket
To make an Easter basket from yeast dough, you need to take the following baking ingredients:
- fresh yeast – 2.5g
- warm water – 1/2 cup
- milk – 1/2 cup
- eggs – 1-2 pcs (one for dough, one for greasing)
- sugar – 1/4 cup
- salt – 1/2 tsp.
- olive oil – 1/4 cup
- flour - 4 cups
By using step by step photos make this for Easter interesting craft from the dough will not be difficult.
Let's start:
1. In a glass bowl (preferably with deep edges), you need to combine milk with water. Mix two tablespoons of water with milk and add yeast. Stir thoroughly and leave to brew for a few minutes.
2. Beat the egg, add the resulting mixture of milk, water and yeast, then add olive oil, salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly until smooth.
3. Add flour to the resulting mass. First you need to add half a glass, mix, then gradually add the remaining amount of flour.
5. The next step is to roll the finished dough into rolls. You should use a heat-resistant glass dish or cake pan as the braiding mold. And before you start applying the dough, you need to wrap it in foil.
7. Apply the resulting strips evenly to the mold, connecting at the top. On average, there are 14-15 flagella per form. Now you need to put something heavy and round on top of the strands to make the bottom (you can take a glass bowl)
9. In a separate bowl, mix one egg, a tablespoon of milk and a little olive oil. Lubricate the entire dough basket with this mixture.
10. Place the basket on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper in the oven, preheated to 180-190 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes. The dough should take on a golden brownish appearance.
11. When you remove the basket from the oven and remove it from the baking sheet, there will be a mark of dough and utensils on the paper. You should make a braid of the same size along it. This will be the edging for our Easter basket. To make a handle you will need wire. We measure the required length, wrap the wire with foil, and wrap the dough on top.
12. We don’t wait for the dough to rise, but immediately put it in the oven.
13. We attach the finished edging with toothpicks, and insert the handle in the same way.
The Easter basket is ready! Now you can decorate it with a napkin, ribbons and put Easter cakes and other Easter treats in it.
Easter craft made from salt dough: painted eggs
To prepare these crafts you need to take the following ingredients:
- flour – 2 cups
- salt – 1 glass
- water – 1 glass
- acrylic paints or gouache
- egg-shaped mold
- tassels for decorating with ornaments
- hanging tape
If you don't have a suitable mold, you can easily make it yourself. You need to cut off the strip plastic bottle and secure with tape, giving it an egg shape.
Let's start making crafts from dough, photos will help us with this:
1. In a deep dish (bowl), mix salt, water and flour, knead the dough.
2. Roll out the resulting salt dough to a thickness of 1-1.5 cm.
3. Using egg-shaped molds, “squeeze” eggs out of our dough.
4. Using a rod from an old felt-tip pen or pen, we make holes for the ribbon in the resulting molds.
5. Place the resulting eggs from the dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper for quick drying. Place in the oven over very low heat, remember to leave it slightly open so that the pieces do not bubble.
6. After the crafts have dried and cooled, we decorate them as desired. Leave to dry.
7. Take a long ribbon of red or white flowers- symbols of Easter, and we pierce them through the holes in our colored eggs.
We did it wonderful craft from salt dough for Easter in the form of a garland.
