I couldn’t tear the children away from the tablets until I made them a dough for sculpting, harmony reigned in the house.

Creating crafts from dough, or bioceramics, is a spiritual form of creativity for the whole family. Preparation is elementary: mix the ingredients, shape the substance, dry and paint. Such a souvenir can become a real family charm. Try to prepare dough for sculpting for children according to the simplest recipe from "Site". It'll be fun!



How to distract the attention of the baby from gadgets? Old, good crafts with their own hands will always come to the rescue. The advantages of this occupation are many. The child will have fun, develop imagination and fine motor skills of the hands, and the mother will calm the nerves after a hard day’s work.

Mass for sculpting can be made not only from traditional flour and salt. We have prepared a popular recipe for you from the available ingredients that you will find in your kitchen. The workpiece for crafts turns out to be strong, dense and plastic. It is also perfectly white, unlike the usual test.



The ingredients

• 0.75 cups of warm water
• 0.5 cups of corn or potato starch
• soda

Preparation of starch mass

1. Mix starch and baking soda. Add warm water and stir thoroughly to uniformity so there are no lumps left. If you plan to use a food coloring, share the required amount to the desired shade. Put the container with non-stick coating on the medium fire and boil until thickened. Stir from time to time so that the workpiece does not burn.
   
   
   
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2. When the substance becomes soft and gathers in one lump without liquid areas, remove the sodium from the fire. A little cool the future dough under a wet towel, so that it does not dry. Multiple mixes.
3. So that the mass does not stick to the working surface, you can add a drop of essential or vegetable oil to it. This is an extreme solution - this dough is not particularly sticky. A dye can also be added at this stage. But you will have to once again knead the workpiece well to uniformity of color.
   
   
   
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4. Time for creativity! Blind the desired figure. For example, such a decorative dumpling as in the photo. If you plan to hang a future souvenir on a rope, make a hole in it in advance.
   
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5. With the help of a shoulder blade, carefully transfer the blanks to dry. To keep everything evenly dry, turn each figure on the other side in a few hours.
6. Frozen crafts turn out quite strong. Now they can be painted with acrylic or other paints. To create a “folk” souvenir, try to make it in the style of Petrikovsky, Kosovo or Yavorov painting.
   
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For the manufacture of dough you can take any starch, but we recommend corn. They get a perfect snow-white mass, and from potatoes - dirty gray. If you need a very solid monolithic substance that you can not simply break, dilute the specified volume of water with a small amount of PVA glue. The approximate ratio is 1:4.



Working with homemade plasticine is a pleasure. Such leisure will appeal not only to children, but to scheming adults. Anti-stress and art therapy in one bottle will relax and soothe the broken nerves.

Try making this dough for the kids. Be sure to share the results and impressions in the comments!