How to make figures from the dough?

Mickening is a fascinating creative process that will captivate not only children, but also adults. Creating your small workshop is quite simple, only some products, paints, patience and, of course, fantasy will be required. And some ideas for creating figures from the dough you will find here.

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Creating figures from dough - recipe for making mass for modeling

The optimal material for creating bizarre figures is salty dough. You will need it to prepare it:

• a glass of small grinding salt;
• 2 cups of flour;
• glass of water;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

1. Prepare a plastic or glass bowl. Pour all the dry components into it - salt and flour. Mix them.
2. Add oil and water.
3. The exact amount of liquid is determined in the process of preparing a plastic mass. If it sticks very much to the hands, the flour is still required, if it crumbles, you need water (or juice, if you decide to use it as a colora).

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Creating figures from dough - how to paint and dry the dough?

You can give the necessary color to your figure in two ways - to decorate the finished product using gouache or acrylic paints, or add the color at the stage of preparing the dough.

In the latter case, as a tinting composition, you can use:

• gouache;
• food coloring;
• natural fruit or vegetable juice.

The finished figure can be dried both in a natural way, but not under the straight rays of the sun, but in the oven. If you have chosen the second method, heat the oven to 70-80 ° C. Next, place the figure in it for 1-2 hours (depending on the size of the product). After taking a break and again send crafts to the oven. The total heating time is from 3 to 6 hours with breaks.

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Creating figures from dough

In the process of creating crafts from the dough, improvised means will help::

• all kinds of molds for cutting cookies;
• knife;
• brush;
• paints (gouache or watercolor);
• ball pen or other fixture for designing patterns and holes;
• decor elements (lace, beads, beads, buttons).

Craftsman "Caterpillary"

For the preparation of bright green caterpillars prepare the salt dough of the corresponding color. When you color the dough into a green shade, separate a small fragment of the plastic mass for the design of the eyes and the pupils of the caterpillars. A piece from which eyes will be performed, color black.

• Divide the green dough on 6 pieces - 1 small, 1 large and 4 medium. Separately form a little caterpillar ball.
• Form from each piece of a neat ball.
• Connect 4 medium and 1 small (last) ball with each other. On top of the first fragment, install a major ball - the head of the crafts.
• Next, fasten your eyes, pupils and the nose of the figurines.

Craftsman "Owl"

• Prepare a ball from plastic salted mass.
• Roll it. The bun is the base should have a round shape.
• Using a ballpoint cap, a cocktail tube or a knife, formulate a wavy pattern on your bird's trouser.
• We draw up the wings of the owls - bring the side pieces of the flat base forward.
• Next form your head. Take a small fragment of salt mass, roll it out and cut out oval face with small ears. You have a bird's head over the base-blank.
• Male eyes and beaks.
• Using gouache, deactivate the figure.

Distillary "New Year tree"

To prepare figures, prepare a plastic mass in 5 colors:

• green - for the christmas tree;
• beige - for garlands;
• red, yellow and blue - for Christmas balls.

1. Plastic green ball roll over, turning into a flat loophy.
2. Cut the face figurine.
3. Thin short sausages roll out of the mass of beige colors. Lay out them diagonally over the Christmas tree.
4. Colored fragments divide into small pieces, each of which roll in the ball. You have these decorations on the Christmas tree.

If you want to attach a braid or laugh to the figure, make a hole in the top of the Christmas tree.

Crafts "Slonik"

Coloring the plastic base in blue color. Prepare separately:

• 2 fragment of white (beige) color - for eyes;
• 2 pieces of black - for pupils;
• 2 pieces of pink color - for the colors of the figure.

1. Separate a large fragment from the test - the future of the elephant's body. Form from it oval.
2. Next, make legs - 4 fat and short sausages.
3. Form a trunk from a thinner and long sausage.
4. To prepare the ears, take 2 pieces of the dough and a little flatten them. Form the same size of pink cakes. Connect them with each other.
5. Connect all the details, not forgetting to attach a small tail and eyes.

Craftsman "Hedgehog"

• Take a fragment of salted dough. Make the hedgehog torso - oval with an elongated tip (nose).
• Of the three small pieces of plastic mass of black color, shape the balls - the eyes and nose of the hedgehog. Either install the balls, and after cleaned them with paint. In the first case, the work will look more natural.
• Install them on the oval basis.
• Now you start forming the acute coat of the hedgehog. Take the manicure scissors and, moving along the body of the figure, make cuts.
• When the figure dries, crook it.