As a gift to a mother or grandmother, a teacher or a girlfriend, you can make an original box for small things with your own hands: threads and needles, jewelry or pencils. This little thing looks very beautiful, and you don’t need to buy almost anything to make it.

• Necessary materials for crafts

You can make a box from any used container. If the house has a microwave oven, then even plastic boxes, trays and buckets will be used: from under mayonnaise, fish or ice cream.

For this craft, you also need salt dough, any paints and, if desired, varnish. By the way, even hairspray will do.

Master class with photos

• Salt dough preparation

The most important component - salt dough - must be made from flour, salt and water. To make a box with a volume of 30 cm X 20 cm X 7 cm, you will need 200 g of ordinary flour (but not pancake or fritters), 200 g of salt and 125 g of water. Considering that the density of salt is twice the density of flour, then in volume terms it will look like this: 200 ml: 100 ml: 125 ml.

Salt is mixed with flour and water is carefully added little by little, thoroughly mixing the mass. You can use a mixer for this.

Then the dough must be kneaded with your hands, like a dumpling dough. And the consistency of salty modeling dough should resemble soft dough for dumplings.

• Execution of the bas-relief

To begin work on the box, you need to roll out a piece of dough in a thin layer. It must be carefully laid out on the outside of the container. The excess can be easily cut off with a sharp knife. The dough is pressed tightly against the container so that there are no voids between the dough and the walls.

When the whole box is covered with this mass, you can begin to make a bas-relief. For strawberries, you need to roll out a tiny piece of dough, cut out the shape of a berry with a sharp knife. Before applying, you need to moisten the side of the part to which it should be attached. The bas-relief is pressed easily, then with wet fingers you need to carefully smooth the junction so that there are not even small lye.

Berries can be of various sizes. They are also placed in random order. Then, sepals are cut out from the rolled out layer of mass with a sharp knife, which are placed on top of the strawberries. The algorithm for attaching all parts is the same. You can also stick strawberry leaves and flowers.

If desired, small legs can be attached to the bottom of the box.

• Drying salt dough

When the bas-relief on the box is completed, the product should be dried in the oven or microwave. It goes without saying that when using plastic, plastic or glass containers, you should not put the product in the oven to dry. In this case, it is best to use a microwave oven.

For the first time, it is enough to turn off the oven for 2 minutes, putting it on the defrosting mode. After turning off the oven, the box must be taken out and carefully examined if there are any cracks or irregularities on the surface. If any are found, it is recommended to cover them with dough, abundantly moistened with water.

Then the box should be put back inside the microwave chamber for 2 minutes in the same mode. If everything is held together normally, you can thoroughly dry the little thing already in the heating mode, setting the drying time to 5 to 8 minutes.

• Coloring the box

You need to paint the box after the final drying. It is best to do this with a very thin brush, carefully drawing all the small details and trying not to leave unpainted places.
During operation, it should be remembered that the dough is quite hygroscopic. Therefore, in order for the color of the finished product to be bright and saturated, the coloring process will need to be repeated several times at intervals of time.

• Lacquering of dough products

After the paint has dried, the finished box is covered with a colorless varnish. If the master decides to make a thing of the same color, without coloring, then you can use dark varnish on wood - this will create an imitation of a product made of wood.

It is very convenient to use hairspray for the last coating: when sprayed, it lays down in an even layer and falls into the smallest bends. However, the disadvantage of such a coating is that the hairdresser's varnish does not give such a strong shine as other varnishes.

• Helpful Hints

Here is an original gift for a woman! The recipient will love this salt dough box! Our master class is over, but in the end I would like to give a couple more useful tips.

By the way, knowing how to decorate the surfaces of containers with a bas-relief, you can make an original sugar bowl, dish, fruit plate, napkin cup, salt shaker, spice stand and other nice kitchen utensils.

You just need to always remember that salty dough, even well-dried and varnished, is afraid of liquids. Therefore, washing such things with water is not worth it. Also, do not forget that salt dough products are very fragile and brittle.

Salt dough box. Master class with step by step photo

Author: Nazarova Tatyana Nikolaevna, Teacher of additional education, MOU DOD House of Childhood and Youth, Millerovo

Master class "Box for mother's beads" in the technique of modeling from salt dough.

Any mother will be delighted to receive a gift from her child. Yes, if this gift is also made by the child himself, with desire and love.
Purpose: such boxes can be given on March 8, Mother's Day or just a gift for no reason.
Dear colleagues! I offer this master class for technology teachers, primary school teachers, teachers of additional education, as well as for educators of preparatory groups for school. Maybe the master class will seem simple to you? This is not true. In our work we use subtle elements and sometimes it is not easy for children to cope with such a task.
Target: make a bead box using the salt dough modeling technique.
Tasks:
- encourage the desire to make handmade gifts for loved ones;
- develop students' creativity, imagination;
- instill a love for modeling from salt dough.
Stages of work:

To make the box, we need: an empty jar of face cream, PVA glue, “cloves” seasoning - seeds, a stack, a rolling pin, a thin brush for glue, a cut for marzipan “flower”, “leaf”, salt dough.
Salt Dough Recipe:
Flour - 1 tbsp. salt "Extra" - 0.5 tbsp. water 0.5 tbsp. Pour salt into a bowl and fill it with cold water. The salt will dissolve a little, and immediately add a little flour. Sprinkle flour as needed. Knead a tight, elastic dough. While working, store the dough in a plastic bag so that it does not dry out.

Take a small piece of dough and roll it out 2-3 mm thick. Cut out 13 leaves with a leaf cutter.

Dust the table with flour and lay out the squeezed leaves. Leaves will not stick to the table. With a stack on the leaves, make notches as if you were drawing a Christmas tree.

Now we need to glue these leaves to the jar. It is desirable that your PVA glue be thicker. Lightly dip the brush into the glue, and lubricate the jar in the place where you stick the leaf. Try not to smear the jar strongly with glue, the leaves can “float” down. Thus, glue all the leaves. Excess glue can be wiped off with a dry brush.

Take a small piece of dough the size of a pea and glue it to the leaves. In this case, you do not need glue, it is already enough at the edges of the leaves. Now take the seeds of "carnation", cut off the ponytails with scissors so that the carnation is shorter. Press a clove lightly into the center of a small lump. Thus, the berry will stick to the leaves, and the leaves will hold on to the jar more firmly. So just glue a berry to all the leaves.

Let's start decorating the lid. In a way already familiar to us, we cut out 9 leaves, make notches on them. Let me remind you once again, when you stick the leaves, do not lubricate the lid heavily with glue. Leaves and so after drying will hold firmly. Leaves are glued on.

Take a small lump of dough, roll it out with a rolling pin 2-3 mm thick. Cut out a few flowers with a flower cutter.

Place a flower on each leaf, and press down with the back end of the brush in the center of the flower. Get the center of the flower. We do not use glue. The flower will hold up well. When pressing the flower, hold the brush carefully so that it does not slide on the lid, not a careful movement can ruin the whole composition. Remove excess glue with a dry brush or cotton swab. Even if the glue is visible somewhere, do not worry, after drying it will not be visible.

This is how the box should turn out. Now our task is to carefully transfer it to the place where you will dry it. Dry on a sunny windowsill. Drying will take approximately 6-7 days. It is better not to rush, but to dry the box well.

The box is dry. Paint it with paints, and after the paint dries, cover it with a colorless acrylic varnish. Varnish will keep your work for a long time. Here is our box and ready.
By the same principle, the children and I decorated food jars in which you can store raisins, or any seasoning. The mothers were happy. Here's what we got.

I wish you and your children creative success!

Welcome all!

Friends, many made some crafts from salt dough, this is a very affordable material and it is easy to make it at home.

In this article, we will not bypass it and make interesting vases from salt dough and Tetra Pak boxes.

What we will need for this:

• Milk cartons or similar;
• Salt dough, rolling pin;
• PVA glue;
• Acrylic paints;
• Sponge for washing dishes.

Craft option number 1.

Step 1.

We start a steep salty dough and roll out a pancake from it, larger than the box.

Step 2

We cut off the upper part from the box so that the edge is even, measure a strip on the pancake from the dough so that it can be wrapped around the entire box in a circle. We cut a strip from the dough, apply PVA glue to the surface of the box and glue it to the box, covering the entire side surface.

Step 3

With the help of a flat object (a flat, wooden stick was used here), we make horizontal risks on the entire surface of the dough, and then vertical ones between the horizontal risks, imitating brickwork. We are waiting for the dough to harden.

Step 4

The dough has frozen, and now you need to paint over the applied risks with acrylic paint, and then, with a damp sponge for washing dishes, rub the paint a little over the surface, slightly toning our “brickwork”.

We are waiting for the paint to dry and that's it, the vase is ready!

Craft option number 2.

Step 1.

We cut off the upper part from the box, apply PVA glue to the surface and glue rounds, ovals, etc. to it. from salt dough. We are waiting for the dough to harden.

Step 2

We paint over the gaps between the glued pieces of salt dough with acrylic paint and, as in the first version, rub it a little with a damp sponge. We are waiting for the paint to dry.

Here are two options for crafts I showed you. They can be used as decorative vases, or as organizers, everything is up to you. By the way, you can do this work with children, I'm sure this activity will be very exciting for them))).

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Every woman has small things: beads, accessories, cosmetics, etc. There comes a moment when they cease to fit into the existing caskets. Or mixed up, which complicates the search for the right thing. Well, there is a way out! You can make a wonderful box of salt dough.

The popularity of this material for needlework is incredibly high. His motto could be "Cheap and.. (no, not angry) beautiful." Every home has a pinch of salt, water and flour. In addition, the dough is a very plastic material. From it you can sculpt everything that your soul desires - toys, various figures, decorations and even containers for them.

Advantages - inexpensive and relatively fast. Most importantly, there is no limit to the imagination. The dough is such a malleable material that it allows you to realize any bold ideas. Beginners can follow the instructions exactly. More experienced ones can take the idea, and the technology for manufacturing products is not much different - we make the dough and cut off all that is superfluous.

Such a box of dough you can do not only for yourself. It can be a wonderful gift for a woman who will appreciate a handmade present. After all, such things carry a piece of the soul of the needlewoman herself.