New Year's crafts made from salt dough. DIY New Year's souvenir made from salt dough

Alexandra Veselova

Master Class"New Year's toys made from salt dough"

Veselova Alexandra Vladimirovna

New Year is a magical time for our children. And preparing for this magic is interesting and exciting. All the kids love it New Year's crafts made with your own hands. Fiddle with test- also one of the children’s favorite activities. By combining both, you can decorate the Christmas tree with wonderful unique toys.

Progress.

For we need some dough: 2 cups flour, 1 cup fine table salt and a little water.

Mix dry ingredients and gradually add water. The mass should have a pleasant consistency - not stick to your hands, and not be too tight (do not break or crumble).

Ready dough Place it on a flat surface and roll it out.

Using cutters or stacks, cut out the shapes of the intended shape.

We decorate crafts with beads and glass beads. We lay out beads on the watch mold in accordance with the location of the numbers on the dial and the hands. We decorate the Christmas tree by sprinkling it with beads and pressing them a little into dough. We lay out any bead pattern on the bell mold.

Attach a ball from the center of the dial dough, flattening it a little.

Christmas tree blanks toys dry at room temperature for 24 hours, turning them over periodically.

Ready, already dried salt dough toys paint with paints.

And you can admire original crafts and homemade Christmas tree decorations toys.

Fantasize make crafts and make children happy!

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Master class with step-by-step photos “New Year's gifts” using the salt dough modeling technique.

Author: Daria Galanova, 9 years old student of the municipal budgetary institution of pre-school and youth education, association “Salty Fantasies”, Millerovo
Teacher: Nazarova Tatyana Nikolaevna, teacher of additional education of the Municipal Budgetary Institution of Preschool Children's and Youth Children's and Youth, Millerovo

The master class is very simple in complexity, perhaps it will be useful to teachers of kindergartens of senior and preparatory groups. In this case, you can cut out snowmen and mittens from the dough in advance. Dry them, and during the lesson ask the children to make the rest of the molds. The master class will also be interesting
for everyone who loves to sculpt salt dough. Make gifts for friends and loved ones. As well as additional education teachers, primary school teachers, teachers of extended day groups.
Purpose: New Year gifts.
Target: creating New Year's gifts using the salt dough modeling technique.
Tasks:
Educational: master the technique of making gifts from salt dough;
Educational: develop accuracy in modeling and artistic thinking;
Educational: encourage the desire to give New Year's gifts made with one's own hands;

Required material:
Paper napkin, stack, glass of water, “Extra” salt, premium flour, “snowman” dough cutter 10.5 x 6 cm, photo frame, colored paper, “snow” floral mesh, “small mitten” 5 x 2.5 cm cocktail tube, ballpoint pen without paste, rolling pin, simple pencil.
Salt dough recipe:
Combine 1 cup flour and 0.5 cup salt. Stir, make a well. Gradually pour in 1 glass of cold water in a thin stream. Knead into a tight, elastic dough. Store the dough in a cellophane bag.
Recipe for "snow"
In a small saucepan, combine 2 tablespoons water and 1 teaspoon potato starch. Stir and place on low heat. Stir constantly while doing this. As soon as the mixture becomes transparent, remove it from the stove and immediately add 1 cup of Extra Salt. First, use a spoon, and once the mixture has cooled slightly, you can stir with your hands. The snow is ready. Place it in a plastic bag and seal tightly. It is important that no air enters the bag.
Progress:

Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5-7 mm. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the “snowman” and place on a paper napkin.

Mark the eyes with a pencil, push the mouth with a stack. Using a stack, make a mark for yourself where you will glue the snowman’s hat.

Form a flat cake from a small lump of dough. Cut it in half. Moisten the snowman's head with water and glue on the hat. We glue all elements of the composition with cold water. Roll up a small, thin flagellum and glue it to the hat. We are making a fur hat. Form a ball from a small lump and glue a bell.

Form a very small carrot and glue a nose on the snowman.

Roll up a thin rope and glue a scarf on the snowman.

From small, identical lumps, form two lumps similar to beans and glue the legs.

Using a ballpoint pen without paste, press the buttons down the center of the snowman.

Form a gift box from a lump the size of a large plum and glue it onto the snowman’s hand. It turns out that the snowman is holding a gift in his hands. Glue the gift tightly so that after the craft dries, it does not fall off.
The snowman is ready, let's start sculpting the mittens.

Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-4 mm. Cut out two small mittens.

Stack the cuffs on the mittens. Use a cocktail straw to make holes.

Make a very small snowman on one of the mittens.

Glue the Christmas tree and toy balls onto the second mitten.
We made the mittens so quickly.
Place the snowman and mittens on a sunny windowsill. Crafts dry in air for about 5-7 days. Although the mittens will certainly dry in a couple of days, since they are not as bulky as a snowman.
The crafts are dry. Paint them with paints and cover them with glossy varnish.
We glue the snowman into a frame and decorate it with glitter. Spread a layer of PVA glue under the legs of the snowman, put “snow”. Compact it lightly. Once the glue dries, the “snow” will stick firmly. This “snow” can be stored for a couple of days in a plastic bag.
The snowman is ready.
Thread the ribbon into the mittens. Decorate with glitter
Gifts for the New Year are ready.

Master class on testoplasty. Craft “New Year's Clock”

The master class is designed for children of senior preschool age, teachers, and parents.

Purpose: This salt dough craft can be used as a New Year's gift or as a decoration for a kindergarten group for the New Year's holiday.

Target: develop children’s aesthetic senses, emotional and value orientations, and introduce children to artistic culture.

Tasks:

· Develop children's independence and initiative, friendly relationships and cooperation with peers and adults.

· Develop spatial and figurative thinking.

· Develop the skill of carefully working with salt dough.

· Develop the ability to assemble a whole from parts

· Foster a culture of communication, a desire to bring the product to the desired image.

You will need: For the dough (salt 1 tbsp, flour 2 tbsp, water by eye, 1 tbsp sunflower oil); foil, stack, paint, brush, sippy cup.

New Year's watch

The alarm rings twelve times

New Year has come again

He boldly opened the doors to us

Entering the house without asking

And our souls will feel sad again

We will remember the old year

We will remember the old chimes

And the old firmament

Or maybe we want

Take back that year

Where I saw it for the first time

That gray firmament

But a year has passed

And he will never return again

So let's meet friends with fun

Your new year and new hour.

Step-by-step execution process

So, you can make this original composition from salt dough with a clock. It just takes a little effort. First, prepare the salt dough for further modeling. The recipe is: 1 glass of salt, 2 glasses of flour, 1 glass of water and 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil. Next, knead the dough, bring it to the desired consistency so that it does not stick to your hands, and begin work.

1. Take a piece of foil and place it on a baking sheet. Roll out the dough and cut out the base of the house.

2. We determine a place for the clock and begin to roll out the flagella 1 cm thick and lay them out in the form of logs. Lubricate one side with water to make it sticky. All excess must be carefully trimmed with a knife.

3. When the entire house is covered with sausage, use a flagellum to identify the window and the roof. For the roof, roll out the rope and flatten it a little.

4.Next we move on to the figures. As usual, the house has its own residents. You can do anyone. I made a snowman and a Christmas tree. I also depicted icicles along the edge of the roof. I made a clock with numbers and arrows in the window.

Crafts made from salt dough: New Year's crafts, Christmas tree toys

Salt dough is a popular and affordable material for children's creativity and making their own crafts. Just like plasticine, salt dough can be used to make products of any level of complexity, so children of any age can make crafts from salt dough. The recipe for making salted play dough is very simple; the ingredients for it can be found in every home.

Salt dough recipe. How to make salt dough

You will need:

Flour - 2 cups
- salt - 1 glass
- water - 250 gr.

You need regular wheat flour, without raising agents, dyes or other additives. Salt - "Extra". The water is ordinary cold.

How to make salt dough: mix flour and salt, add water, knead the dough. The degree of readiness of the salt dough can only be determined by hand. If the dough crumbles, add water. If, on the contrary, it stretches too well and sticks to your hands, then there is too much water, and you need to add a little flour. Roll into a ball and make several indentations in it with your finger. If the dough does not spread and holds its shape, it is ready. It is recommended to add vegetable oil during the kneading process. Now the dough will not stick to your hands, dry out quickly and become crusty while working. However, it should be remembered that the best is the enemy of the good! If there is a lot of oil, the dough will get dirty, and final drying can take a very long time. For our recipe, a couple of tablespoons is enough.

Well, the dough is ready, now you can proceed directly to the process of modeling salt dough.

New Year's crafts made from salt dough. Christmas tree toys made from salt dough

In this article we will tell you how to make New Year's crafts and Christmas tree decorations from salt dough. We tried to select crafts made from salt dough that, on the one hand, are easy to make, and on the other hand, the end result is beautiful.

Salty dough. Crafts made from salt dough

To make Christmas tree decorations from salt dough, you will need shaped cookie cutters. With their help, even a child can cut out figures from a rolled out sheet of dough.

The resulting salt dough figures can be left as is, but it’s even better to decorate them. For example, like this.

You can use a cocktail tube to make many holes in the dough and then you will get openwork figures.

Or decorate crafts made from salt dough with beads. Just keep in mind that if you use beads made of plastic, etc., then you cannot dry the finished salt dough products in the oven, otherwise the beads may melt.

Instead of beads, you can use various cereals, shells, buttons and even broken dishes to decorate New Year's crafts made from salt dough.

You can give Christmas tree decorations made from salt dough a festive look with the help of beautiful ribbons and threads.

Note: if you do not have a suitable mold, you can cut out a stencil from cardboard and use it to cut the salt dough for the craft.

Modeling from salt dough. Salt dough photo

Finished, already dried salt dough products can be decorated with sparkles by applying them to a layer of glue.

Crafts made from salt dough. Salt dough master class

Christmas decorations made from salt dough, painted using colored permanent markers, look beautiful.

Products made from salt dough. Salt dough modeling

You can decorate New Year's crafts made from salt dough using the decoupage technique, pasting them with beautiful pictures or decals. For decoupage, you can use pictures cut out from New Year's napkins. For New Year's decoupage, regular PVA glue diluted with water in a 1:1 ratio is suitable. Cut out pictures or patterns from New Year's napkins, separate the top layer and paste it onto the finished salt dough craft. Apply another layer of glue on top.

Figures made from salt dough. Crafts made from salt dough

Here are some more examples of decorating salt dough figures.

Christmas tree decorations made from salt dough. Salt dough modeling

A simple and original way to decorate salt dough products is to make prints on them. Prints can be made from all sorts of objects with interesting textures that you can find around your home.

The salt dough craft “Fish” in the photo below was made using various textured items that the author of the craft found at home. For a detailed master class on making this original craft from salt dough, see the link

Natural materials are also suitable for making Christmas tree decorations with your own hands from salt dough: twigs, shells, leaves with thick veins.

When making New Year's crafts from salt dough with your children, you can use purchased stamps for children's creativity. The ink is suitable for both black and colored.

The DIY Christmas tree decorations stars, house and cockerel in the photo below are also made from salt dough using patterned stamps. By the way, you can make stamps for children’s creativity yourself. Read about how to make stamps with your own hands on our website in a special article.

An interesting way to make New Year's decorations from salt dough is offered by the Ladybirds in my garden website. Using textile or paper lace, openwork prints are created on salt dough, from which figures are then cut out using shaped molds or a simple glass.

Christmas tree decorations made from salt dough with prints of children's hands or feet look touching. On the back of the salt dough craft, write the date the print was made.

From fingerprints and palm prints on salt dough you can make these memorable Christmas tree decorations with your own hands: a New Year tree and Santa Claus.

Crafts made from salt dough. Salt dough figurines

Concluding our review article on the topic “New Year’s crafts from salt dough”, here are a few more interesting New Year’s crafts that can be made from both salt dough and plasticine.

1. New Year's mosaic made of beads and bugles

To make this original New Year's decoration, you will need:

Plasticine or salt dough
- plastic covers
- beads, beads
- gold paint (optional)

Paint the lids with gold paint, then fill them with plasticine or salt dough, and lay a mosaic of beads and bugles on top. Even kids can make such New Year's crafts.

2. DIY craft for the New Year “New Year’s candles”

To make this New Year's craft you will need:

Salt dough or plasticine
- cardboard base from a toilet paper roll
- corrugated paper in red, yellow and orange colors

Make rings from plasticine or salt dough of different colors, then put them on a cardboard roll. Make a flame from corrugated paper and insert it inside the candle.

3. New Year's craft for children "Christmas tree"

You can make a cute Christmas tree from cardboard packaging of milk, kefir or juice and plasticine (salt dough). For a master class on making this craft from salt dough, see the photo below.

Preparing salt dough

Before you start creating holiday crafts for the New Year 2020 from salt dough, you should prepare it yourself. Allow your child to do this, who will receive in this way not only a certain experience, but also great pleasure. Arm yourself with the necessary products and get to work.

For production you will need:

2 cups wheat flour;
1 glass “Extra” salt;
250 gr. water.

Work process:

To prepare the dough you need to mix flour and salt.
Then you need to pour in water. Mix well, gradually adding the remaining amount of flour. Remember, the mass should not be liquid or sticky. By the way, to make the salted dough more elastic and shiny, you should add a little vegetable oil to it during the kneading process.
Roll the dough into a ball and visually check whether it holds its shape. If yes, it does not spread or crawl on the table, then the material for creativity is ready.

This is how you and your children can easily and simply create with your own hands an excellent pliable material for future creations for the New Year 2020.

Video: recipe for making salt dough for crafts

Salt dough coloring process

Modeling from salt dough is, of course, a fun activity. It’s so nice to make something cool and unusual with your own hands in the form of cool figures for the Christmas tree, magnets for the refrigerator, figurines for beauty and harmony in your home, and so on. However, the further process of coloring them is not convenient for everyone and, let’s say, is within their control, since, if you take into account small children, they do not have the ability to delicately paint over all the details in their crafts, so they need a simpler option with already bright and colorful finished material. And it’s quite easy to make variegated salt dough at home. You can try to decorate it yourself in all the colors of the rainbow, rest assured, you will even like it. For the New Year 2020, such splendor will yield equally attractive creations.

Coloring methods:

gouache;
food colorings;
instant coffee;
cocoa;
acrylic paints;
brilliant green;
multi-colored ink;
mascara;
vegetable or fruit juices;
sparkles.

Thanks to such a variety list, you can achieve excellent results in a fairly short period of time. But you just need to remember that the dye you choose must have a liquid or paste consistency. If you received the coloring element in the form of tablets or powder, then it is advisable to dilute it with a small amount of water. All you need is a few drops of this substance, squeezed onto the salt dough for a delicate, faint shade, and if you want to achieve a more saturated color, then, naturally, more. After this, you should knead your “building” material properly, adding flour if necessary, and begin the direct creative process. But some craftsmen, after drying decorative items, still resort to re-saturating their crafts using acrylic, watercolor, and oil paints. This finishing touch will add an alluring and perfect gloss to any figurine.

New Year's mosaic made of beads and bugles

If you don’t know what crafts to make from salt dough for the New Year 2020 with your own hands for holiday home decor, then take advantage of our master class. It is very simple and therefore your children can freely work in this direction on their own, creating beautiful holiday decorations. This activity is perfect for labor lessons at school or the development of children in kindergarten.

To work you will need:

salty dough;
plastic covers;
beads and seed beads;
gold paint.

Progress:

To get beautiful toys for the New Year tree, you need to take small lids. Perfect for coffee or other products.
Then the parts you have chosen need to be decorated with gold paint or you can leave them as they are.
After this, they need to be filled with salt dough, and a mosaic should be attached on top. If desired, you can use beads, glass beads or other interesting things.
By attaching a thread to the product, you will get a wonderful DIY craft for the New Year 2020.

To expand your knowledge in the field of New Year's decorations from the above-mentioned material, made with your own hands, we recommend watching our video tutorial. From it you will learn about the existence of some secrets in this work.

Master class: 11 secrets when working with salt dough

New Year's candles

You can create a pleasant magical atmosphere for the New Year 2020 if you have salt dough candles at home. To make this kind of craft, it is important to follow all the work step by step, and the end result is a magnificent decoration made with your own hands quite simply.

To do this you will need:

salty dough;
cardboard;
corrugated paper.

Progress:

It is necessary to make rings from the salt dough, which should be put on the roll. The latter can be made from ordinary cardboard or use a base from toilet paper.
Corrugated paper will be needed to create a visible flame that needs to be placed inside the candle. By color you can choose red, yellow or orange paper. If desired, you can place the candle on a cardboard base decorated with salt dough. This handmade craft is ready to decorate your home environment for the New Year 2020.

Christmas tree decorations made from puff pastry

Before the New Year holidays, you can organize a great entertaining activity for children related to puff pastry modeling. This process is very easy to perform and, among other things, brings a lot of pleasure, just like salt dough.

To work you will need:

puff pastry;
cookie cutters;
decorations: beads, beads, rhinestones, etc.

Progress:

The puff pastry prepared by yourself needs to be rolled out and formed into figures, which in their appearance will remind you of the approaching New Year 2020. And for this, ordinary cookie cutters are used. The resulting crafts can be left in the condition in which they are, but it is best to paint them in different colors. It is recommended to decorate the surface with beads, seed beads or rhinestones. If you prefer plastic beads, you should remember that such products cannot be dried in the oven. You can use various grains. Nowadays, handicraft stores sell a large assortment of accessories, and therefore you can buy absolutely any kind of jewelry.
Depending on the types of shapes, you get wonderful crafts in the shape of hearts, Christmas trees, stars, etc. Cocktail tubes are used to create holes in the product, with which you can make cool patterns with your own hands. Organizing such an activity is perfect for kindergarten. The kids will probably enjoy fiddling with such a pleasant-to-touch material as puff pastry. It is as pliable and soft as salt dough. The point here is diversity, and it’s up to you, dear friends, to choose what you like best.

Don’t forget to look at our photo ideas on this topic, and we also have a cool article with many more cool crafts, go see for yourself.

Christmas tree toys “Hearts” made of puff pastry

For a festive tree for the New Year 2020, it is not necessary to buy toys in the store, because handmade crafts from puff pastry or salted dough will also look great. Moreover, independent creativity is always doubly pleasant. There are no specific instructions required here, it is important to use some recommendations and you will get beautiful decorations.

To do this you will need:

puff pastry;
materials for creating prints: hearts or other types of shapes;
beads;
ropes or ribbons.

Progress:

You can create jewelry with your own hands using a method such as a print. To do this, you need to roll out the puff pastry or salt dough and form it into shapes as you wish. You can use baking dishes or any other utensils for this.
To make a design on the surface of the craft, you need to attach shells to it and press a little. The result will be a shell design, but you can use leaves, twigs, etc.
After this, it is best to decorate them with beads and beads. Painted toys look beautiful. So that they can be hung on the Christmas tree for the New Year 2020, you need to make a hole for the rope.

Browse our photo ideas to expand your imagination.

Master class on creating Christmas tree decorations from salt dough

New Year's wreath made of salt dough

What could be cooler and more noticeable than a DIY craft made from salt dough for the New Year 2020, made in the form of a wreath. Such a wonderful and quite spectacular decoration can transform not only the doors in your house or apartment, but also, quite simply, complement and clearly emphasize your New Year's decor as a whole.

To work you will need:

salty dough;
water;
rolling pin;
file;
gouache;
spray - paint;
newspapers;
an oval or round bucket as a base;
thin tree branches;
threads;
a small piece of fabric;
sponge;
self-hardening plastic;
ring for fastening;
PVA glue;
heat gun.

Work process:

To begin with, you should make snowmen from salt dough. They can be the same as in our photo or yours personally, born from your fantasies.
After this process, it is necessary to dry the resulting products. To do this, you will need to place your creations on a file with a stand and wait a few days for them to strengthen and harden.
After making sure that your crafts have dried, proceed to their further transformation by painting. To do this, you can use black and brown gouache or something else, more colorful. We take a sponge dipped in paint and carefully treat our product with it.
Then we wash off the paint with a damp cloth, making it less noticeable, but with a slight tint of brownishness. Then, using other colors, you should bring the decorative coloring to the desired result.
After this, you need to take a small piece of self-hardening plastic and mold it into a small ball, the size of a cherry pit. Flatten it and attach a metal ring - fastening so that its upper edge slightly peeks out from behind the plastic.
We take the newspapers you prepared and roll them into thin tubes, the edges of which should be fixed with PVA glue.
Then we take out a bucket, which we will use as a base for making a wreath. We turn it upside down and wrap the resulting newspaper tubes around it, connecting them together with a glue gun. You should end up with an oval or a circle, it all depends on the shape of the container you choose.
Pre-soak selected tree branches, preferably birch, in boiling water. This way they will become elastic and obedient. Then, after drying them, you should carefully wrap them around a newspaper base (circle or oval) and attach them using threads. The wreath should look lush and not glow through.
When the DIY craft for the New Year 2020 is almost ready, it will need to be spray-coated with white and then silver paint.
Decoration should be done using dried orange slices, berries, bows, satin ribbons, rhinestones, beads and other assortment. But most importantly, don’t forget to attach the snowmen you made earlier from salt dough.

Conclusion