Holiday decorations from salt dough: 5 bright ideas for decoration

Salt dough toys are an ideal solution for decorating for Christmas if you have small children in your family! First, we make a holiday with our own hands, secondly, we get safe toys, and thirdly, you get a very creative and beautiful Christmas tree. Additional bonus - children are proud of themselves!

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The main rule of Christmas toys? She must please! Our very simple, but at the same time absolutely magical New Year's decoration ideas give parents and children the opportunity to enjoy both the process of making and the result.

You have certainly heard that sculpting children is very useful for the development of fine motor skills. What's good about it, except that mom has to clean plasticine from everywhere afterwards (the kids, if they start, don't stop!)?

The good thing is that the brain centers responsible for fine motor skills and speech development are located nearby and interact with each other. So children who have well-developed fine motor skills of their hands usually learn to speak easily and their level of intellectual development is high. Attention, imagination, and logic also develop when a child is babbling. And adult? An adult receives the effect of art therapy: relaxation, the opportunity to engage in creativity, compensate for the lack of attention to oneself. If you were not particularly sculpting in childhood, now you can compensate.

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Don't forget to write a note from the bearded wizard "Let the whole family make dough tonight! Not dumplings, not dumplings, but salty decorations!"

IDEAS FOR GIFTS

1. Brushes and paints (to have something to color your Christmas decorations).
2. Delicious cookies (you will definitely want to have a snack in the process).
3. A set of children's tableware.

ASSIGNMENT FOR PARENTS

Prepare everything you need for a modeling evening. Find New Year's melodies on YouTube and start. By the way, any work with the test brings all family members together, so get ready to get unforgettable impressions and pleasant consequences.

ASSIGNMENT FOR A CHILD

Come up with your own Christmas toy and blind it. Catch our hints!

CHRISTMAS TOYS FROM SALT DOUGH

Any Christmas decoration from salt dough is made from the same base, there are many recipes, but the basic products are the same everywhere. How to prepare dough for modeling?

You will need:

• 4 cups flour
• 1,5 cup warm water
• 1 cup fine salt

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Process:

• Mix salt and flour in a deep bowl.

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• Gradually pour warm water into the mixture from a glass or decanter and mix thoroughly with a wooden spatula.

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• The dough should be tight and absorb all the excess flour.
• Roll out the dough with a rolling pin on a large kitchen board and, using cookie cutters, cut out various festive figures from it.

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• On the figurines, you need to make a round hole at the top so that they can be hung later. You can also make marks with a fork or draw something, and after it is baked, paint it with paints and cover it with glitter.
• You can dry the figurines in the oven at a temperature of 60-80°C for about an hour, and also spread them on parchment in the kitchen. True, the air drying method - enough long process and can last 3-4 days.

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And you can not paint the dough, but ask the child to leave his handprints in it. It will turn out to be a very memorable and cute decoration, especially if you hang it on a beautiful ribbon.

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You can make a funny Santa from a child's palm print on the dough, and to make the toy look brighter, you can cover it with glitter varnish.

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SALT DOUGH GARLANDS

Such figures can be used to make a Christmas garland on a tree or simply for wall decoration. You just have to decide in advance what shapes you want to make a garland from: you need to make 2 holes in the middle of the raw cookies in order to then put it on the ribbon.

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Gingerbread men who came to us from the West look especially festive in a garland. On each arm of the gingerbread man, you need to make a hole and then tie the men with beautiful ribbons into one big chain.

So that salty cookies do not look boring, cut thin strips of colored fabric and tie them in the form of a scarf around the neck for each part of the garland.

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CHRISTMAS WREATH FROM SALT DOUGH

To make such a New Year's wreath, you will need to prepare a double portion of salt dough: it will take a lot to decorate it.

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Process:

1. Cut the finished dough into 4 parts: from 3 parts you will make a wreath-pigtail, and the dough from the fourth part will be used for decoration.
2. From each individual piece, make a long "sausage" with a diameter of 3-4 cm. Put all 3 such "sausages" on the board next to each other and start braiding, making a classic braid.
3. Connect the ends of the braid and decorate it with various details: leaves, flowers, stars, Christmas trees. You can make a hole in the braid to hang the wreath on a ribbon.
4. Bake the product for at least 3 hours in the oven, after cooling — brightly decorate.

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