Recipe
You can find many dough recipes on the Internet, but it is important to follow the proportions correctly. In addition, you can buy ready-made material for modeling, but making homemade dough is cheaper.
To make high-quality figures, you need to know how to make modeling dough. Photo: Getty To make salted dough, prepare and mix the following ingredients:
- 200 grams of flour;
- 200 grams of salt;
- 120 milliliters of water.
Choose good salt without lumps so that the dough turns out homogeneous.
The process of modeling
Follow these 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 modeling process is very simple, and both adults and children can handle it.
Possible difficulties
During the sculpting process, you may encounter certain 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 are facing difficulties, then understand,what you are doing wrong and try again. By practicing this, you will learn to make really good figures over time. For children, this is just an interesting activity and an exciting hobby. It is more interesting than sculpting from plasticine, because the result of sculpting can bake, and it will always be pleasing to the eye. You can do sculpting together with your baby, so both you and he will be interested. You can make gifts together for relatives on different holidays, for example, for grandparents.
