
How to make and color a quality dough for modeling yourself
In the modern world, safety and naturalnessmaterials that children work with is becoming increasingly important. And the recipes and the ability to prepare them at home are becoming especially valuable. This article tells you how to make dough for modeling with children with your own hands. Everyone who has ever tried to do it loves modeling. Kids in kindergarten and very grown-up aunts and uncles. Everyone enjoys working with plastic materials, pinching off pieces, kneading, shaping and creating entire compositions. Plasticine, clay, dough, plaster and much more are used. Most of these products can be purchased in handicraft stores. But it is much more interesting to create modeling material at home with your own hands. And for children, it is also safer. Parents or educators can be completely confident in the ingredients for modeling. In their environmental friendliness and harmlessness. One of these materials is modeling dough. Its composition is extremely simple. The safest option for children consists of water, salt and flour. When adults do the modeling, they can optionally add wallpaper glue, PVA, vegetable oil, starch, dyes and even hand cream to the dough.Ingredients required:
- Flour. It is necessary to use the most usual, without various additives. Flour for cooking pancakes will not work. Baking powder included in its composition, will contribute to the fact that the product will increase in volume and crack;
- Salt.The best choice is the "Extra" table salt. Regular food and iodized salt is too large and contains dark particles. They will not dissolve completely, will shine and give the finished product an untidy appearance;
- Water. It is best to use very cold or icy water for making dough;
- Potato starch increases the plasticity of the dough;
- Different types of glues (PVA, wallpaper, etc.) give the products strength. They need to be stirred in water.
By creative impulse or in accordance withYou can add other ingredients to the recipe. For example, vegetable oil or even hand cream. They, like starch, increase the plasticity of the dough for modeling. For these same purposes, water can be replaced with jelly. To make it, you need to take:
- Water 1 tbsp. + 1/3 st (for diluting the starch);
- Starch 1 tbsp.
Pour into boiling water, diluted with cold waterwater, starch. The liquid should thicken and become transparent. After that, remove it from the fire. Cool and mix with flour and salt instead of water. Colored products will undoubtedly look more interesting, impressive and attractive.You can paint ready-made figures or sculpt themfrom colored dough. There are several methods of coloring. You can use watercolors or gouache. Or you can add food coloring to the dough for modeling. For greater safety and environmental friendliness, it is better to use natural dyes. Beet or carrot juices convey their shades perfectly. For greater variety, you can mix them in different proportions. Green juice will color the dough in magnificent green shades, cocoa or coffee will create a deep chocolate color. Soot will allow you to get a rich black color. You should dilute the dye with water and then knead the dough. You can prepare dough with different color intensities, and some of it should not be colored at all. In the future, this can be useful for creating different shades. It is important to remember that the color will become lighter when the product dries. Art varnish will save the situation. It will give the surface of the craft a beautiful gloss and make the colors brighter. Those who do not like shine on products can use matting varnish. How to knead dough for modeling according to the classic recipe. You will need:
- Deep tank;
- Flour;
- Salt;
- Water.
You need to start mixing in a deep bowl untilforming a lump. Continue kneading on the work surface. Sift the flour. First, add salt and pour in some water. After the salt has completely dissolved, add flour. If the dough is not flexible enough, you can add water. If the dough is too soft, add flour and salt, observing the proportions. The quality of the dough for modeling directly depends on the duration of kneading. The longer you knead, the better. The finished dough for modeling does not stick to your hands and does not crumble. The colored dough is uniform in color.The finished dough should be wrapped in cling film and put in the refrigerator. It can be stored for no more than a month.