Autumn crafts from salt dough

A lot of original and beautiful crafts can be made from salted dough. They often turn out to be an effective addition to home interiors. Let's figure out how you can make attractive autumn crafts from salt dough with your own hands.

It is possible to make a very beautiful maple leaf from salted dough.

For this you will need:

• salty dough;
• Maple Leaf;
• a stack for neat sculpting (usually this tool is sold complete with plasticine, but it can be purchased separately);
• rolling pin;
• paints (gouache and acrylic are suitable);
• brush;
• a baking bowl.

When all the listed components are ready, you can proceed to making the original candlestick in the form of a maple leaf. Consider a step-by-step master class.

• It is necessary to form a ball from the salted dough. It is rolled into a flat cake, the thickness of which is from 5 mm to 1 cm. The dough should be rolled out as accurately and evenly as possible.

• A harvested maple leaf is applied to the salted composition. An imprint of this natural component is made. A leaf is carefully cut along the remaining contour, using a stack for modeling.

• A sheet of salted dough is placed on a clean bowl turned upside down and evenly distributed on it.

• Next, the dough is given time to fully harden. To do this, the dishes, along with a sheet of dough, are sent to the oven for drying. Here the workpiece should be for about an hour and a half at a temperature of 80 degrees Celsius.

• When the craft cools down, it is covered with paint. An acrylic mixture will give a more saturated and multifaceted color. The gouache will be more transparent.

• After that, the salt dough craft is left until the paint has completely solidified. This completes the process of making a creative maple leaf candlestick.

It is possible to sculpt from the dough not only various natural elements such as red autumn foliage, but also a variety of animals. A charming hedgehog will serve as a wonderful craft on the theme of autumn. It is done without unnecessary difficulty, but it turns out to be very cute.

Let's consider step by step how you can make such a wonderful creation from salt dough.

1. First of all, a salty dough is prepared. After that, it is rolled into a ball. One part is pulled out of the resulting ball. She will play the role of the animal's nose.
2. The next step is to make hedgehog thorns. They can be shaped with scissors. An interesting solution is to insert pasta in the back. There are a lot of options on how to depict thorns.
3. After that, all that remains is to draw the hedgehog's face. It should be depicted on his face, eyes, nose and mouth. At the final stage, the set dry craft is painted using any colors you like.

The finished hedgehog can be added to the whole autumn composition.

Such a craft will turn out to be especially bright and original.

There are so many more cool ideas for making autumn salt dough crafts. With their own hands, children can make a variety of products and whole creative compositions. Consider several interesting options that are suitable for both kindergarten and school.

For a kindergarten, a child can make a whole picture made in the autumn theme. To make such a composition will come in handy:

• rectangular plaque or sheet of cardboard;
• brushes and paints;
• simple pencil;
• glue "Moment crystal";
• salty dough;
• components from natural materials;
• decorative leaves and apples;
• frame;
• varnish.

Consider a step-by-step instruction on how to make a very beautiful painting "Gifts of Autumn" for a kindergarten.

• Sketches are made on the basis of a rectangular shape using a pencil. The autumn landscape can be absolutely anything. This will be the background of the painting.

• The applied picture is painted with colors of autumn shades. Clean areas are left in the center. They will be reserved for hedgehogs.

• While the paint on the painting dries up, hedgehog figures are sculpted from salt dough. They can simply be copied from a book on a sheet of paper, and then stick the dough on top, adhering to the contours.

• Small mushrooms, apples and berries are also molded from the dough. A voluminous basket is made by placing a rounded object under it.

• When the hedgehogs are dry, they are glued onto black cardboard. He will fix the figures so that they do not start to crumble. After that, thorns are drawn and the figure is cut out, starting from its contours.

• Next, the finished hedgehogs are painted. The paint can be applied in several layers, if necessary.

• They make hedgehog thorns. For this, sunflower seeds are glued onto black cardboard using Moment glue or tile adhesive composition.

• At this time, the drawn background image is placed in a beautiful frame. In places where the paint was not applied at the very beginning, ready-made hedgehogs are fixed. The painted trees are complemented with cobbled apples, maple leaves. Made mushrooms and twigs are also glued.

• The result should be a very beautiful and vivid 3D picture. At the end of the work, it should be covered with colorless varnish. It is advisable to apply it in several layers. That's all, the picture is completely ready!

A huge number of original and very beautiful crafts from salt dough can be made for school. For example, a basket of mushrooms made from the material in question will be attractive and relatively easy to manufacture.

To make a beautiful craft, you need to prepare:

• salty dough;
• brush;
• watercolors or gouache;
• knife;
• 2 sewing pins;
• rolling pin;
• autumn leaves;
• adhesive composition (in this case, you can use ordinary PVA glue);
• Super glue.

We will understand in detail the correct course of work in the manufacture of a good school craft from salt dough.

• First you need to prepare the salted dough. To do this, take 200 g of flour, 200 g of salt, 125 ml of water, 1 tbsp. l. wallpaper glue. All components are kneaded. If the dough sticks to your hands, add more flour to it.

• A small piece is taken from the dough. It is rolled out so that small flagella of about 0.5 mm are formed.

• The first "sausage" is rolled up like a snail. In this case, the base is lubricated with an adhesive. This component will serve as the basis for the future autumn basket.

• To make the basket easier and more convenient to shape, you should additionally use a suitable mold.

• In the next step, the "sausages" made from the dough are woven together like a pigtail. In this case, it is also necessary to coat the blanks with glue. The interlaced components are glued to the base of the basket. The handle of the future basket is woven from a pair of "sausages", which are shorter.

• The next stage of work is the production of small mushrooms from salted dough. To do this, pinch off small pieces from the salted ball. Their size should correspond to the size of future autumn gifts. A leg is formed from one piece of dough, and a hat is formed from the other. The finished elements are carefully glued together to make the finished mushroom.

• When all the necessary preparations are made, they will need to be laid out on a baking sheet. After that, it is sent to the oven, heated to about 90 degrees Celsius. Salt dough blanks should stay in such conditions for at least 1 hour.

• After the specified time, all the components of the future craft can be removed from the oven. You should wait until everything has cooled down. Next, the handle and the basket itself are taken. These components are glued together into a single composition. To fix the elements to be more reliable and of high quality, it is advisable to use superglue, grabbing the "spare parts" with sewing pins. After that, the blanks are again sent to the oven, but already for half an hour.

• At the next stage, you can proceed to the design of the mushrooms, which will then be placed in the basket. To do this, you need to take paints and a brush. The workpieces must be painted.

• Watercolors or gouache will be aesthetically pleasing, but not too bright on the surface of salt dough mushrooms. Such coatings often look translucent, dull. If you want to achieve brighter and more vibrant coloring, it is advisable to turn to acrylic paints and varnishes.

• Mushrooms must be painted carefully, leaving no clean areas. It is recommended to use natural shades to make the craft more realistic as a result.

• After completing the process of painting the autumn gifts, be sure to wait until the paintwork is completely dry. Until this moment, no action can be taken.

• When the painted mushrooms dry and set, they can be sent to a ready-made basket of salted dough. To make the craft even more spectacular and expressive, natural twigs, cones, fallen red leaves can be placed in a wicker container together with mushrooms.

A master class on making an original autumn craft from salt dough can be found in the following video