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Modeling is a useful and exciting activity not only for kids, but also for parents. This is an opportunity to spend quality time together. Modeling improves hand motor skills, develops creative and creative thinking. You can sculpt not only from plasticine or clay. We will tell you about an excellent replacement for them in this article.

Safe plasticine

Salted modeling dough is an excellent option for replacing the usual plasticine. His recipe is so simple that it is quite suitable for cooking with.

This dough does not pose any chemical threats. It is non-toxic. Does not stain other surfaces. If the baby puts it in his mouth, he will quickly spit it out due to the amount of salt in the composition. Plus, preparing it won't put a dent in your wallet.

How to make your own play dough

You can prepare safe modeling mixture with ease. It won’t take much time, the ingredients are quite accessible and are almost always available in the kitchen.

Did you know? The color of the very first plasticine was gray.

Required Ingredients

To make salted play dough according to our recipe, you don't need many ingredients. It comes out just like plasticine.

Before you start cooking, you should stock up on the following products:

• 1 cup flour;
• half a tablespoon of fine-grained salt;
• 2 teaspoons citric acid;
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil;
• half a glass of boiling water;
• food coloring (the amount depends on the desired shade).

Important! To make the dough even more natural, you can use natural dyes - beet or carrot juice.

You can also add essential oil.

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Below we will present a recipe for salt dough, suitable for modeling any crafts.

• Pour a glass of flour into a large bowl. Add salt and all the citric acid there.

• Mix all dry ingredients.
• Pour in sunflower oil.

• If the dough is colored, then pour/add food coloring into half a glass of boiling water. At this stage, you can adjust the color saturation.
• Pour the colored water into the flour and begin kneading the dough.

• If you want to add aroma, you can add a few drops of essential oil.
• Sprinkle the board with flour and knead until smooth.

Important! The flour should be homogeneous, without impurities.

Secrets and nuances

By adhering to the recipe, you can get an analogue of Play Doh plasticine, only made with your own hands.

• It’s better to take extra salt. If you don’t have one at hand, then simply grind regular-sized salt in a coffee grinder;
• It is best to store the modeling mixture in the refrigerator. However, its shelf life is no more than three weeks;
• To enjoy your creativity longer, you should add the preservative potassium sorbate to the dough. It is non-toxic and will not cause any harm to the baby. One coffee spoon should be diluted with a small amount of water and poured into the dough at the kneading stage.

Did you know? Plasticine was originally created as a means for cleaning wallpaper from stains.

It's easy and simple even at home. You can involve your child in kneading and then it will be even more interesting for him to sculpt from your plasticine.

Hi all! Do you know what I thought about the day before? Sometimes not only children need and want to make crafts, but also us adults. Take my culinary exploits, for example. This is not just a dish, I want it to be a kind of mini-masterpiece. Or another craft of mine that I created recently. And do you know what it is? Play dough with your own hands! Of course, I used the manual from the Internet, read and watched videos. But she also added a couple of her innovative developments to the “recipe”, after which the modeling dough became simply perfect!

Buying anything today is not a problem! And different companies offer similar products, and there are all kinds of options for this material for creativity. I once stopped in front of a shelf in a store with plasticine, and for half an hour I was tormented... what to buy? But why do I suggest trying to make it yourself at home? There are 2 main reasons for this:

• Safer components, we choose them ourselves;
• Making dough is also an activity, and believe me, very exciting for your baby!

Of course, we will have to use some chemicals as dyes, for example, gouache. But I tried several options, and I especially liked one of them. There I took food coloring for coloring. There is a rather large color palette, and I am confident in the safety of the material that the little one will have to work with.

How to make it interesting for the baby too? Everything is very simple! Invite him to participate! Entrust him with mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough. Believe me, all the processes are not difficult for him, and he will really enjoy doing them! Two tiny hands helped me all the time! I'm sure it was thanks to them that such a great result turned out!

Variations of Play-Doh plasticine

Even when making Play Doh at home, you can go in two ways: using heat treatment and without it. I'll tell you about both methods. In addition, the composition itself may also differ. Some people add lemon juice, others citric acid.

What other differences are there? They will be there at the end of the work. Since Play Do is essentially salted dough, only colored, after making the craft, you must be prepared in advance for the fact that it will not only harden, but also become smaller. There may even be a change in color. What should I do? Try painting the figurine with varnish. And again, it’s up to you to decide which varnish to use to open the product! Will it be enamel or acrylic varnish, and perhaps nail polish? Think.

Let's do that!

First, the recipe without cooking. It's simpler and faster

What we need:

• Flour – 1 tbsp;
• Salt – 0.5 tbsp;
• Hot water – 0.5 tbsp.;
• Rast. oil – 1 tbsp.

1. I first mix salt with water. Why? If there are any foreign elements in the salt, they will settle. And I only use pure saline solution.
2. Mix hot salted water with flour. I stretch my hands well.
3. Add oil and mix well again.
4. All! The base is ready. You can divide it into the required number of parts, add your own dye to each of them and knead thoroughly until elastic.

IMPORTANT! After all this, be sure to find containers in which to store Play Dough. Otherwise, the mass will quickly harden and cease to be suitable.

Another option:

Second option, with heat treatment

Ingredients:

• Flour – 1 tbsp;
• Salt – 0.5 tbsp;
• Water – 1 tbsp.;
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp. or citric acid;
• Rast. oil – 1 tbsp.

1. Mix flour with salt. Add lemon juice, oil and water. Mix.
2. Divide into as many parts as there are dyes.
3. And add dye to each part. Then pour each part separately, in turn, into the frying pan. Place on the fire for just a few minutes until the mixture thickens enough to stop sticking to your hands.
4. All! Ready. You can hide the plasticine in a container so that it does not harden.

The third option that we found on the Internet from starch and shaving foam

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Modeling is one of the most favorite activities for children. But many mothers are afraid to give their child plasticine or store-bought modeling clay, because the little toddler loves to taste everything. In this case, homemade materials for modeling and other types of creativity would be an excellent option. Let's look at a few simple recipes that will help you learn how to make safe plasticine and modeling clay for your child yourself.

What types of materials can you prepare yourself?:

1. Modeling compound (analogous to the well-known plastic material Play-Doh)
2. Homemade cold-made plasticine or salt dough
3. Gluten-free plasticine (for children with allergies)

Play-Doh sculpting compound at home:

Many young mothers have probably heard of such a product as Play-Doh modeling compound. This children's modeling compound is very elastic and pleasant to the touch, has a good smell and is positioned by the manufacturers as an absolutely safe product. With all this, in terms of its composition, Play-Doh cannot be called plasticine; it is more like dough! The price of this product is quite high, so it is much easier and safer to prepare such a mass yourself. By the way, it is often called “fried plasticine”, because we will be cooking it on the stove!

To make children's mass for modeling with our own hands, we will need:
1 cup wheat flour
0.5 tbsp. spoons of fine salt
2 teaspoons citric acid
1 tbsp. spoon of vegetable oil
0.5 glasses of water
food coloring

First, mix all the dry ingredients and oil in a saucepan.

Any dye can be used, for example, in tablets or powder. You can buy it at the grocery store; you will find a particularly wide selection of dyes during the Easter holidays. I used food coloring tablets designed for coloring eggs.

We dilute the food coloring tablet in water according to the instructions.

Add colored water to the dry ingredients, put the pan on the fire and, stirring constantly, “cook” the mixture for about 5 minutes. During this time the mass will thicken.

Place the thickened mass on the table and knead with your hands.

As a result, we get a very elastic, bright and, most importantly, absolutely safe product for children's creativity.
This homemade Play-Doh can be stored in the refrigerator for up to several weeks if you do not plan to give your child the entire portion at once. You just need to wrap the unclaimed part of homemade plasticine in cling film or a bag and store it in the refrigerator door.

Salt dough, or cold plasticine:

This product is another type of homemade plasticine. It has undoubted advantages: it cooks very quickly and has sufficient elasticity. In addition, salted plasticine can be given even to very young children without fear that the mass will be eaten. This modeling paste is so salty that a child will spit it out in no time.

To prepare salt dough, we need to take:
1 cup wheat flour
1 cup fine salt
1 tbsp. spoon of vegetable oil
water - as much as needed

To prepare the simplest plasticine, you need to mix flour and salt.

Add oil.

Add water little by little and knead the dough. If desired, the water can also be colored with food coloring.

By mixing all the ingredients, you get salted plasticine, which children will enjoy crushing and rolling out. Like the previous modeling mass, salted plasticine does not stick to your hands.

Modeling compound for children with allergies:

If suddenly your baby suffers from gluten intolerance, then he should not use wheat flour. But this does not mean that modeling becomes taboo for a child. Starch will come to the rescue!
To prepare a hypoallergenic modeling mass, mix 1 cup of starch (corn or potato) with 2 cups of baking soda. Pour in 1.5 cups of water and, if desired, add dye. This mixture should be cooked on the stove, turning on the minimum heat. After the contents of the saucepan thicken, the mass needs to be kneaded.
Starch-based plasticine is absolutely harmless for little allergy sufferers.

Dyes for homemade plasticine:

You can color homemade plasticine and modeling clay with a variety of dyes. The only condition is the safety of the dye, and since little experimenters love to taste plasticine, it is better to use food coloring to color this product.

It can be:

Gel colors intended for food purposes. They are bright, easy to use, but quite expensive.
Food colors for eggs - in tablets and powder form. They give quite bright colors to plasticine, while being cheap and accessible.
Gouache. It is better to use it only if the plasticine is intended for older children.
Natural dyes:

Red – beet juice;
- orange – turmeric, saffron, carrot juice;
- pink – raspberry or cherry juice;
- green – spinach juice;
- blue – red cabbage juice;
- brown – cocoa powder.

Hi all!

This is not the first time I have bought Play Do modeling dough. In the summer I bought a whole package of large Play Doh cups on sale; there were six of them in a package, and there really was a lot of dough. But the colors are not very varied.

But the dough began to dry out quite quickly, and eventually crumbled. Although it is still in our jars.

I recently bought another set, several small Play Do glasses, which my daughter is now playing with, and I’m taking pictures and writing a review. The dough is really cool, it’s still new. It’s so soft and pleasant to the touch, but the cans are not very easy to remove, and the cans are a little hard to close.

This is what this play dough looks like, our two sets, large and small jars.

All jars are yellow. Only the lids are multi-colored. Each can is labeled "Play Doh".

In addition, I note that the dough smells pleasant. Its colors are bright. There are whole sets with figurines and other toys for modeling with this dough.

In general, I still recommend this dough, despite the fact that it is a little expensive, but you want your child to have something branded at least once))) My rating is five points, although there are some shortcomings. But every dough dries out quickly. Overall the quality of this test is good!