Recipe
On the Internet, you can find many recipes for the test, but it is important to correctly observe the proportions. In addition, you can buy ready-made material for modeling, but make a homemade dough cheaper.
To make the figures qualitative you need to know how to make the dough for modeling. Photo: Getty To prepare a salted dough, prepare and mix the following ingredients:
- 200 grams of flour;
- 200 grams of salt;
- 120 milliliters of water.
Choose a good salt without lumps to make the dough uniform.
The process of modeling
Observe the following steps:
- Prepare a homogeneous dough;
- Roll it out;
- Prepare figurines, or think of what will be sculpted;
- Implement the idea;
- Place the pieces in a non-heated oven, and then turn it on 120 degrees;
- Take out the figurines, let them cool;
- Treat with sandpaper;
- Proceed to coloring the figures.
- Cream if desired.
The process of modeling is very simple, and both adults and children will cope with it.
Possible difficulties
In the process of modeling you can face some difficulties that can be solved:
- After drying, the figure showed cracks andbubbles. This may be due to improper flour or non-compliance with drying rules. Buy ordinary rye or wheat flour and check if you dry the products correctly.
- The figure cracked after you covered it with paint. This happens when you start painting the product when it is still dry. Next time wait until it dries.
- The paint peels off the product, and it becomes dull. This problem can be solved by varnishing after staining.
If you encounter difficulties, then understand,that you are doing wrong and try again. Practicing this, you will eventually learn to make really good figures. For children it's just an interesting activity and an exciting hobby. This is more interesting than sculpting from plasticine, because the result of modeling can bake, and he will always rejoice the eye. You can do modeling with your baby, and you, and he will be interested. You can together make gifts to relatives on different holidays, for example, grandparents.
