It's already around the corner with the wonderful New Year holiday. This holiday is expected not only by children, but also by adults. And how great your room will look, especially if you make jewelry for yourself with your own hands.
Have you ever thought about making Father Frost on your own in anticipation of the new year? If not, then you should think about it, especially since it is not difficult to do this, especially if you have small assistants.
Make a New Year's Santa Claus with your own hands can be made from different materials: paper, felt, clay, plasticine. And we suggest you make Santa Claus a salted dough.
Salted dough for Santa Claus
In order to make our Grandfather Frost from a salty dough, you need to start making the dough itself. And this is not difficult at all. There are a lot of salty dough recipes. We have selected the most popular and practical ones for you. Recipes are placed by popularity rating:
- Recipe number 1 : flour 200 g, salt 200 g, water, potato starch 100 g. The amount of water in the dough goes according to the type of flour. The dough is considered ready when it ceases to stick to the hands, but it should not be too tight to not crack.
- Recipe number 2 : flour 200 grams, salt 100 g, 2 teaspoons of wallpaper paste, water.
- Recipe # 3 : flour 200 g, salt 200 g, 1 st. a spoon of vegetable oil, water. Salt for dough is better to use fine, so that the texture of the dough does not become very rough.
- Recipe number 4 (most simple): flour 200 g, salt 200 g, water.
Master class - Santa Claus
We offer you MK to create a flat Santa Claus from salted dough. You can make it small and give out for souvenirs or a big one to decorate a New Year's apartment. Prepare an unpainted dough, as well as red and pink. You can paint with food paints or any liquid dyes.
Let's get to work:
- Sprinkle the working surface with flour, roll out a 6 mm thick cake from the unpainted dough.
- Cut out the head for the future grandfather.
- Roll out the thin sausage and make a contour for the face of Santa Claus.
- From the red dough roll a cake 3-4 mm and cut out the cap.
- Attach the edge and the bubo to the cap (moisten the joints with water).
- From the pink test roll two small balls and attach the cheeks.
- From the red dough roll the tiny balls and make a nose.
- Eyes can be painted, you can make a black dough, and you can make eye-raisins - it's like your imagination will allow.
- It remains to make a beard and mustache. This can be done by rolling very thin sausages and, cutting, fasten in the right places. Or you can do with the garlick (skip the dough through the garlic).
That's all - Grandfather Frost is almost ready, it remains only to dry it. It can be dried outdoors (depending on the thickness, the drying takes up to two weeks), and if time is pressing - in the electric cupboard at a temperature of 50 degrees, the workpiece dries out within 1 hour.
