One of the most exciting activities for a small child is modeling different figures.Of course, this has all the famous clay.But, anyway, it's still not an environmentally friendly material.But you never know what - maybe the child will want to taste it.So many caring mother began to apply this procedure to a special dough for sculpting.If you prefer, you can buy it in the store and spend lots of money on a small amount of material.But you can save your hard earned money and cook the dough for sculpting house: so to say, cheap and cheerful.
Salt dough - it's one of the best material from which to sculpt figures of excellent quality.His cooking does not take much time and is quite simple.And no, it does not leave stains and is very easy to wash off.Moreover, as mentioned above, the molding of the salt dough for children will be absolutely safe and harmless, even if it is unintentionally swallowed.
So how to cook this wonderful stuff?
Recipes cooking salt dough for sculpting a lot, but we will look at the main ones.For starters take a glass of salt and about the same amount of flour and mix all.Then what happened, pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil and half a glass of water.All mix and mesim hands until the dough is uniform in composition.It is also necessary that it does not stick to hands.If you want to make the dough for sculpting was more flexible, you can try to replace the water in the starch jelly.
To prepare it, you should dissolve a tablespoon of starch in half a glass of water.In a separate saucepan, bring 200 grams of water to a boil and pour it into a small stream of starch solution, not forgetting to stir the mixture.Our jelly is ready when its content becomes transparent and slightly thickened.Allow the resulting mixture to cool and add it to the flour instead of water.
finished dough for sculpting put in the bag and send it in the fridge for a couple of hours.That's all - our homemade stuff ready for "labor and defense."Now you can begin to realize your fantasies.If you want your articles made of dough for sculpting were colored, you can take the help of dyes that are sold in the store.You can apply simple gouache or even a carrot or beet juice.
To put figures on different patterns or something else, you can also use gouache.When painting products from salt dough should take into account the fact that, after drying, food coloring does not change its color, gouache and here a little pale.But it is necessary to consider that the figure is only necessary to paint after they are dry.A drying such products must be carried out in an oven with a temperature of about 80C °.For simplicity, you can use the heating battery.
This puff pastry to be stored in the refrigerator for several days.A dried and painted figures will please your eyes for several years!
