How to make salt dough

Salt dough is one of the most inexpensive and easy to prepare and use at home materials. Can be used for different purposes, there are small variations in its construction, depending on whether it is intended for modeling and control of children, or it is necessary to make a beautiful objects with greater stability in time.

Ingredients

1 cup flour
½ cup water
1 tsp adhesive TS200 (only the first recipe)
1 cup fine salt
1 tsp oil (or baby oil body)

1. Perfect recipe for salt dough

First of all you need to provide a wide and comfortable place to work and obtain the necessary products. If the salt that we have is not very fine, well to digest an additional machine for coffee. This is necessary since the coarse salt will prevent our dough to become smooth and its ingredients to be mixed well, and thus it will be more brittle and difficult to shape.
Mix the salt and flour and add a thin sruya water. Gradually add the oil and then glue and mix well to obtain a homogeneous mixture (if you use enough salt should be fine during the kneading not feel rough crystals on it). If the dough sticks too much on your hands, add a little flour. If then, it is too hard, add a few drops of water.
The resulting material you can use right away or store it in the refrigerator, wrapped in foil.

2. Recipe for salt dough suitable for children

Preparation becomes as previously described, with little difference in the ingredients. To ensure a peaceful and safe children play with salt dough, it need only contain harmful products.
Of course, this means that the material will lose its elasticity and resilience, but for kids it does not matter. They are fun to shape the pieces and rebuild them repeatedly, play with dough and even to try to taste. It is therefore recommended during the kneading not add glue to use cooking oil.

How to paint salt dough

Suitable for this purpose are as tempera and watercolors and some natural dyes. If you want to color the dough while it is still soft, it is better to divide it into several pieces, to which add different colors.
Note that the process of drying the brightness of colors increases. So if you want the final color is bright and not very deep, use less paint when kneading the dough.

How to dry the finished pieces

The best way to "seal" was made ​​objects in an oven heated to 50 degrees, or place them near a heat source (the figures should not be heated much to not crack). After drying can polish their creations with water-based varnish - so they will remain for a long time.