Decorating a Christmas tree is one of the most joyful and exciting experiences in every family. This is a reason to get everyone together and prepare your home for the long-awaited holiday.
If you want to somehow decorate the New Year tree in a special way, then you will like our master class. So, let's start creating New Year's snowflakes from salt dough.
For this you will need:
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1 cup salt
- 1 table. a spoonful of lemon juice;
- mixing water.
Combine all ingredients in a deep cup and dilute this mixture with water until the dough is elastic and smooth. Salted dough should not stick to your hands, make it as close as possible to plasticine.
Next, prepare the surface for work - cover the table with parchment paper or any other material to which the dough would not stick. Prepare a special baking dish in the shape of a snowflake.
Take a small piece of salted dough and roll it out into a 1.5-2 cm thick plate. Squeeze a snowflake on a plate of salted dough using a mold. Show your imagination using snowflake shapes of different sizes, as shown in the photo. Remember to make a small hole in the snowflake so you can hang it on the tree.
Repeat these steps with the remaining test.
When all the snowflakes are ready, place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake the snowflakes for 4 hours in an oven preheated to 80 degrees Celsius. Check the items every 30 minutes to ensure they don't burn.
Salted dough snowflakes can also dry out without an oven. It is enough to leave them to dry in the fresh air for several days.
The edges of the finished products need to be slightly sanded with a nail file to get rid of unpleasant roughness.
After the salted dough dries up, you can proceed to the most pleasant stage - painting and decorating snowflakes.
You can paint salted dough products with special food dyes, watercolors, acrylic paints or gouache.
In our case, we will use silver acrylic paint. Using a thick brush, completely cover the surface of the snowflakes with paint.
After the paint has dried, use a thin brush to decorate the snowflakes with various patterns. There are no special rules here, show your imagination and paint the snowflakes at your discretion, decorate them with beads, beads or other decorative material.
To fix the color, cover the snowflakes with a layer of colorless varnish or transparent acrylic paint in several layers.
Thread a pretty string or ribbon through the hole. Salted dough snowflakes are ready.
Children will really like making New Year's crafts from salt dough with their own hands. It's safe and fun. In addition, such snowflakes are a great idea for a small gif.webpt to friends and family.
