Christmas crafts from the dough do-it-yourself: Simple and fun leisure (145+ Photos). All the secrets for exciting and successful work.
Crafts from salt dough is a popular way to do something with your own hands. They do not need a lot of money, because consumables cost a penny. Making handmade decorations for the Christmas tree is a way to bring a New Year's atmosphere into your home and have a good time. And children will be especially delighted. Asterisks, balls, lollipops, Christmas trees, figurines - everyone can do everything. Find out how they can be made later in the article.
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How to work with the test?
Lamb dough with their own hands
Before you start modeling, you need to make the dough itself. To do this, you need ingredients that can be found in any kitchen:
- a glass of wheat flour;
- a glass of finely ground salt;
- half a glass of cold water.
Look beautiful and cheap
Then it remains only to mix the ingredients with a spoon first, and then put the dough in a lump on table and roll it well and knead it well. As a result, it should be flexible, soft, should not stick to hands and crumble.
It is important to make the dough correctly.
In order to further give crafts the color - because the dough itself is yellowish, which is boring - you can use one of the ways:
- add food coloring at the kneading stage - then you need to mix the dough in several different bowls to get several pieces of different colors;
- use pencils, paints, felt-tip pens and tinsel when crafts are ready.
Step by step do-it-yourself workshop
To give ready-made crafts strength, you can dry them in two ways:
- slowly - to do this, put the finished crafts on a plate and put in a warm dry place, away from direct sunlight, for a week;
- quickly - for a few hours to put the finished crafts in the oven so that it is baked there (the main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise it will crumble).
This decor can be used for any occasion.
The first method is slower, but the result will be achieved quite accurately. The second one is faster, but there is a chance to spoil the craft by overexposing it, under-keeping or breaking it.
And, of course, the simpler the form, the less likely it is to spoil it.
Bright ideas that attract the attention of everyone
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The easiest way to make a decoration from salt dough is to take forms for cookies and use them. The algorithm is simple:
- roll out the dough into a layer of thickness somewhere in the centimeter and a half;
- using molds to cut stars, hearts, circles out of it;
- make a hole in each craft using a sharp stick and bake the resulting flat toys in the oven;
- Get them out of the oven in two hours and color it.
We use forms for cookies
There are different ways to paint crafts to make them look good. For example:
- one color - then you get just bright, shiny toys;
- strips - narrow, wide, horizontal, vertical, diagonal;
- peas - more, less, one color, multi-colored;
- patterns - geometric, floral, abstract, can be taken from cards, for example;
- drawings - snowflakes, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowing, Christmas trees.
Christmas toys on the Christmas tree
When the coloring is finished, it remains only to pull the laces through the holes, tie them together - and you can hang up the finished toys on the Christmas tree.
You can take your child for a long time with dough
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To flat figures look more interesting, you can use someone else's experience and give them originality, charm. You can, for example:
- Make figures with transparent clearance. To do this, cut a figurine, and in the middle cut a through hole of the same shape - round, in the form of a Christmas tree or a star. Before sending the figure to the oven, you need to put some plastic beads in the hole. When they melt, you get something like a stained glass window. The main thing is to place them not for two hours, but for twenty minutes, otherwise the plastic will not just melt, but will burn and smell unpleasant.
- Make a garland of figurines. It's enough to strung them on a long cord, which can be decorated with feathers, beads and bells.
Strung on the cord after it dries
- Make lollipop. To do this, you need to make two lumps of dough, one red, the other white, roll both into long sausages, and then weave the sausages together and bend at the end. Edges cut so that they are smooth.
Multicolored treats, but not edible
- Make a mitten figure or a sock figure. To do this, cut out the cardboard form, attach to the dough and cut around the knife. Or you can take a thin strip of tin (for example, cut from an aluminum can) and fold the shape from it.
- Make a knitted figure. To do this, make two long sausages from dough and roll them into a flagellum. Cut the flagellum into equal parts and put it on a rolled sheet of dough. When the mold is used for cutting, the resulting figure will appear knitted. When it dries, you can glue the button on top for greater similarity.
Making a knitted figure
- Make a month figure. It will look especially good if you cut out his nose and lips, and hang a small bell on the upper horn.
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A separate kind of flat figures you can count the snowflakes. It is more difficult to do them than the others, since there are no ready-made forms for them, and it will not be so easy to make them from a piece of aluminum can - they are too intricate.
Great decoration for the Christmas tree
There are three main ways to make a snowflake:
- Use tracery napkin. The pattern on the napkin looks great, if you use it correctly - you need to attach the napkin to the dough and press it harder. And then cut the overall shape with a soft toy knife. This snowflake is very simple and vaguely like a snowflake, but young children just like it.
- Use drawing. It is necessary to take a scheme in which the snowflakes are cut out of paper, and then transfer it to the dough, you can use a pencil. When this painstaking work is finished, you need to carefully cut out the pattern - this is a good fine motor training for children over six years old.
- Use simple forms. You need to draw a snowflake, then make thin flagella out of the dough and fold the snowflake out of them. The work is also quite painstaking, requiring perseverance, and is not suitable for small children.
The work is painstaking, requires perseverance
Snowflakes look especially good when painted with silver paint.
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Santa Claus and Snow Maiden do too easy, but the simplest forms can not do. There are several ways:
- Ladoshki. A good idea for a game with small children - you need to attach your palm to the dough, cut it along the contour, bake the impression and then paint it: your fingers will be a beard, your thumb will be a hat, small blue eyes and a small mustache will remain.
More complicated work, but everyone can
- A drop. It is also easy - you need to cut a drop out of the dough, and then a wide strip, the edge of which is cut into transverse strips and narrower and attach to the drop. Then it remains to slightly curl narrow strips, attach a circle of nose and slightly curled mustache on top of them, and put everything in the oven. And after - paint in white, red and flesh-colored.
- Mosaic. We need to find a beautiful paper sketch of Santa Claus, then cut a figurine out of the dough, and then, on it, separate parts - pens, beard, face, hat and put them on top. The result will be something like a voluminous coloring, the main beauty of which will be given with the help of colors.
Gorgeous and not at all difficult - please your children
For older children - and for adults who want to test their skills - a flat image of Santa Claus’s face, which is made up of individual elements, will do. Perform it consistently:
- first cut out the background - a circle, or a star, or any other beautiful shape;
- then cut out an oval for the face and a triangle for the cap, impose one on the other;
- they supply the cap with fur - that is, a thin strip of dough;
- they make a round red nose and pink cheeks, you can press your mouth, as well as your eyes, and you can make it convex;
- they put curled mustaches on top - they can be made fluffy, or they can be made of two thin strips;
- impose a beard on top - it can be drawn, it can be made from thin curled stripes, you can just make it flat, with a smooth wavy edge.
Sometimes scares off the complexity of doing
The result is baked and painted. And if you do not make a beard and mustache, and instead make a bang and a braid, you get a Snow Maiden - and her hat, of course, needs to be painted blue.
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An even more interesting way to make Father Frost and Snow Maiden out of dough is to make them bulky. This, of course, is more difficult than making a silhouette and painting it, but also more fun, especially since you can experiment in the process. The main steps are as follows:
- to make a frame - it is possible from foil, it is possible from a glass jar without a label, it is possible from an old light bulb, it is possible from a clay cup;
- put dough on the frame, evenly and neatly - it will be a fur coat;
- make a ball, stick a nose on it, press your eyes - head;
- make a cone - a hat, and then two smaller cones - handles.
In the process of execution, you can experiment
The Snow Maiden needs a braid of woven flagella, and Santa Claus has a beard curled at the ends and has a mustache to it. When the figures are ready, you can bake them, and then add accessories. You can make a bag for Santa Claus - it’s better to sew, but you can also make it from dough - and a long silver foil staff. Snow Maiden does not have such recognizable objects, but you can give her a bunny made of cotton, for example, or a big star made of foil.
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Then the figures are painted and you can put them under the tree.
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And, of course, it is impossible to do without a Christmas tree for the New Year, even if it is made from dough. There are several ways to do it:
- Simplest - to make figures-stars, each a little more than the previous one, and in each in the middle to turn a hole. After baking, paint them green (or white) and join them with a cord. Beads can be attached between the stars on the lace to make it more beautiful.
- More difficult - make a big cone of dough and, pinching with nail scissors, cover it with needles. The work is petty and with a sharp object, because children should be trusted only under the supervision of adults and after explaining what safety technology is.
- Even harder - make a big cone, and then push additional lumps of dough into the garlic press. The result will be long, noodle-like sausages. They need to be carefully cut and stuck on the Christmas tree, starting from the top, layer by layer.
Fasten the top and can be decorated
For the smallest two simple options will do:
- Make flat shaped Christmas trees. To do this, simply cut them out of the dough with a dull toy knife and bake. While the dough is soft, you can make beautiful patterns on it.
- Make a Christmas tree-pyramid. To do this, make stupid, starfish-like figures out of dough and make them one on another. Such an exercise will not only help the child develop fine motor skills, but also practice in determining the size of objects - a very relevant skill for the age of two or three years.
Be sure to do such crafts with children
To make the tree look more fun, of course, you need to decorate it.. To do this, you can make small balls of dough, which then paint in different colors, you can cut out garlands from paper, you can make a big important star, you can make decorations from paper or stick small candies in bright wrappers on top.
A simpler option for small
The main thing is that as a result, the Christmas tree would look like a New Year's holiday and create the right mood.
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Salty Dough Recipe
Master class for beginners
Conclusion
Especially well obtained jewelry, if you do her whole family under the New Year's music. Try to do an odd job with your children - there will be no limit to delight And most importantly, you will have a long memory.
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