Summary of a lesson on testoplasty for the senior group “A Heart for Mommy”

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The use of testoplasty in working with preschool children. Testoplasty is one of the types of folk applied art. Nowadays, salt dough modeling has become a very popular activity. And this is not surprising. Making salt dough is a great pleasure and joy. The recipe for this material is so ancient that no one knows when people invented it. Even in those days when in Rus' the New Year was celebrated on September 1, and at the same time weddings were celebrated, it was customary to give figurines made of salt dough. It was believed that any craft made from salt dough found in the house was a symbol of wealth and prosperity in the family. And bread and salt will always be on the table. That is why these figures were often called very simply - “hospitable people”. Salt dough is an environmentally friendly material, so any child can safely trust a lump of light, soft dough. This lump gives the feeling of something alive, and the sculpting evokes the most pleasant feelings. And it is very well suited for modeling classes, both at home and in kindergarten. Modeling is one of the types of fine arts in which three-dimensional figures and entire compositions are created from plastic materials. Modeling is the most tangible form of artistic creativity. The child not only sees what he created, but also touches it, picks it up and changes it as necessary. In modeling, the scale of crafts is not determined by the sheet format, as in drawing and appliqué, or the size of the cubes, as in construction. It depends each time only on the child’s plan, on his skill and individual characteristics. So one child prefers miniature products, while another gravitates towards monumentality. Modeling is not only an interesting, but also a very useful activity. This hobby brings, in addition to pleasure, invaluable benefits for the health of the body and soul. The work of the fingers and brain is activated and the body and soul are completely relaxed. A person is filled with joy, worries and stress go away. Work on dough plasticity has a complex effect on the development of a child; in addition to the generally accepted opinion about the development of fine motor skills, we can say that modeling from salt dough contributes to the development of creativity in preschoolers. Modeling from salt dough promotes the development of visual perception, memory, imaginative thinking, instilling manual skills and abilities necessary for successful learning at school. Just like other types of fine art, modeling shapes aesthetic tastes and develops a sense of beauty. Therefore, it can be reasonably assumed that modeling from non-traditional materials has a beneficial effect on the development of the child as a creative personality.

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Master class for teachers on testoplasty

Author-compiler:

Epanchintseva Irina Svyatoslavna,

teacher

MAUDO of the city of Yalutorovsk “Kindergarten No. 9”

highest qualification category

Teaching experience 27 years

USING TESTOPLASTY TECHNIQUES AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Goal: To present the possibilities of testoplasty as a means of development of preschool children

Tasks:

Introduce master class participants to testoplasty techniques.
Show a system for working with dough as a material for children’s creative activities.

Equipment: salted dough, blank for making the “Chicken” craft, material for decorating the craft.

Progress of the master class

An important role in creating a modern educational environment today is played by innovative technologies aimed at developing the interests of children with special educational needs, based on the principle of fantasy in play activities.

Dough modeling is as natural and organic a child's need as play. Testoplasty is one of the most fascinating types of decorative and applied art.

Making dough from flour, salt and water is an ancient custom and was used to make figures from folk tales. In Rus', figurines made from this material were given as gifts for the New Year as a sign of prosperity, fertility, and satiety. And they were decorated with paintings characteristic of the area where our ancestors lived. It was believed that any craft made from salt dough found in the house is a symbol of wealth and prosperity in the family, and bread and salt will always be on the table. That is why these figures were often called very simply - “Hospitable Man”.

The dough has a number of advantages:

• The material is environmentally friendly, non-allergenic.

• Surprisingly flexible material.

• Crafts made from salt dough are more durable and can be used in games.

• Crafts can be painted in different colors.

Difficulties may arise when working with the test:

You need to learn how to knead the dough. It’s a mistake when we take a lot of flour, it’s better to use less and knead well. Dough recipe: 1 glass of water, 1 glass of fine salt, flour.
It is necessary to take into account thematic planning when developing a circle program.

There are no limits to your imagination when working with the test!!! The process of work is the joy of learning. The child brings his sincere interest, surprise or admiration into his work; he not only reflects the world, but also gets to know it. The educational and educational value of modeling is great, especially in terms of mental and aesthetic work. Working with dough allows you to solve a variety of problems and is aimed at:

development of the sphere of images and representations;
formation of mental activity: stimulation of mental activity, formation of mental operations, development of visual forms of thinking (visual-effective and visual-figurative), concrete-conceptual (verbal-logical);
development of spatial gnosis and constructive praxis;
formation of spatio-temporal representations;
development of mental abilities through mastering the actions of substitution and visual modeling in various types of activities;
development of hand-eye coordination, stimulation of reflex zones and nerve endings of the palms and fingers;
activation of the formation of connections between the hemispheres of the brain;
development of creative abilities.

In addition, special tasks of development and correction of deficiencies in the emotional-volitional sphere and the emerging personality are also solved, which implies:

development and training of mechanisms that ensure the child’s adaptation to new social conditions;
prevention and elimination of occurring affective, negativistic, autistic manifestations, and other behavioral deviations;
development of social emotions;
creating conditions for the development of self-awareness and self-esteem;
formation of the ability for volitional efforts, voluntary regulation of behavior;
preventing and overcoming negative personality traits and developing character.

The use of testoplasty is indispensable for the prevention of severe emotional disorders, undeveloped communicative competence, with the aim of developing play activity, developing play motives and interest in the game in a child. Testoplasty provides a child with ample opportunities to react emotionally in a socially acceptable way.

During joint activities with a child, the use of testoplasty techniques makes it possible to consolidate color, quantity, shape, ordinal and backward counting, as well as expand and clarify knowledge about the world around us, using riddles, poems, proverbs and sayings.

Testoplasty helps to activate vocabulary, update existing ideas about sensory standards of color, shape, size; strengthening ideas about seasonal changes in nature. Even restless children during the testoplasty process show such a long concentration of attention on one type of activity, which is unusual for them.

There are practically no children who would refuse to experiment with the dough, leaving imprints on it with various objects, play with molds and stacks, or make something of their own choosing.

In correctional and developmental work, you can use various didactic games and play exercises, the material for which will be dough products. For example, in the didactic game “The Fourth Extra”, you can ask children to find an extra figure made from dough (the child must highlight the difference - by color, shape, size). You can invite children to independently make all the figures the same by changing the sign of inconsistency.

In the game “Find out by touch,” we invite children to recognize a given object by touch (this can be fruits, vegetables, toys made from colored dough by the child himself). In addition, testoplasty opens up wide opportunities for the development of elementary mathematical concepts in preschoolers.

Children can make their own material from dough to develop counting skills and operations. It is possible to consolidate and update such mathematical concepts as “one-many”, “more-less”, “equally”, “long-short”, “wide-narrow”, “big-small”, etc. All objects with which the child acts and which are created by him as a result of productive activity serve as a visual support for speech and thinking exercises. Moreover, in this case, clarity is represented by volumetric objects, and not by illustrative material.

Working with a test is a kind of exercise that helps in the development of fine differentiated movements, coordination, and tactile sensations necessary for children with disabilities to work. Productive activity acts as a specific imaginative means of understanding reality, and therefore is of great importance for the mental development of children. In turn, the mental education of a child is closely related to the development of speech.

Testoplasty is an opportunity to use available material:

Spaghetti (hedgehog spines)
Colored macaroni and vermicelli (cake decoration)
Cereals (we laid out a fur coat for a bear made from buckwheat)
Peppercorns (nose, eyes)
Garlic press (hairstyles)
Stacks (draw)
Buttons (make a relief surface)

This is how, through play, based on a common passion, testoplasty helps children develop, and teachers help solve assigned correctional and educational tasks.

I start each club session with a warm-up:

Shifting and squeezing the dough in your palms;
Rolling a kolobok in your palms;
Pressing on the bun produces a flat cake;
The “mice” came and began to dig holes;
The “geese” came and began to pinch the dough;
The “toed bear” came and began to stomp on the dough;
Rolling the flatbread into a sausage;
Wrap the sausage in a “snail”;
The “snail” hid in the house - it turned out to be a bun.

After warming up, we move on to making crafts. I suggest making an Easter chicken (the idea for the craft was taken from the website https://yasno-solnishko.ru).

To begin, we will knead salt dough from 2 tbsp. flour, 1 tbsp. fine salt and half a glass of water. Add yellow gouache.

Then we roll out the dough into a layer about 0.5 cm thick and squeeze out an oval with a mold. We will take a plastic cup as a mold and lightly press it on the sides to make an oval.

Separate the oval from the rest of the dough and smooth its edges with a finger slightly moistened with water. This is the body of a chicken.
For the wings, we make small ovals, roll them out thinly, lightly moisten them with water and glue them to the chicken. Using a toothpick, draw feather stripes on the wings.
Roll small balls for the eyes and a square for the beak.
For the legs we make small ovals and roll them out using gouache.
We will make holes in the workpiece - one at the top for hanging the egg and two at the bottom for attaching the legs. We will also make holes in the legs for attaching to the chicken.

Then we dried everything in the oven at low temperature.
Once the dough has cooled, we will paint the details.
Insert ribbons into the holes.

Well, our Easter chicken made from salt dough is ready. You can use it to decorate your room or as a gift.

Testoplasty acts as a means of understanding reality, is of great importance for the mental development of children, and helps maintain positive motivation and cognitive activity of children with psychophysical disorders. Thus, the possibilities of testoplasty in correctional and developmental work are limitless.

Literature:

https://aplik.ru/shkolniku/9-klass/ispolzovanie-priemov-testoplastiki-v-korrektcionnopedagogicheskoi-rabote-s-detmi-s-ogr/
https://io.nios.ru/articles2/51/10/testoplastika-v-detskom-sadu
https://yasno-solnishko.ru/detki-3-5-let/pashal-ny-j-tsy-plyonok-iz-solyonogo-testa.html

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A lump of salted dough - It’s interesting to sculpt from it!
The dough ball is soft, pleasant and smooth to the touch. It’s lying in my palm, I can mold it into a cat, I can mold it into a baby elephant or a mouse, I can mold it into a picture that I saw in a book, I crushed the lump a little, I’ll mold it into arms and legs, I’ll mold it into ears and eyes, and together we’ll go to a fairy tale! I. Glebova In the main general education program, the priority is the developmental function, which ensures the development of the child’s personality.

The state of the domestic preschool education system is currently characterized by a transition to new approaches focusing education on a humanistic, personality-oriented model. This significantly expands the range of educational tasks that can be solved.

One of the closest and most natural activities for a preschool child is visual arts and modeling. In the process of visual activity and modeling, preschoolers acquire a whole range of graphic and pictorial skills and abilities, learn to analyze objects and phenomena of the world around them. This activity develops fine motor skills of the fingers, their muscles, coordination of movements, has a beneficial effect on the development of speech (since the projection of the hand is in close proximity to the speech zone in the brain), relieves nervous tension, fear, and provides a positive emotional state. Fine art and modeling provide ample opportunities for experiencing beauty and for developing children’s emotional and aesthetic attitude to reality. Visual activities in kindergarten are an effective means of understanding reality. This activity helps the development and formation of visual perceptions, imagination, memory, spatial concepts, feelings and other mental processes. Such personality traits as perseverance, focus, accuracy, and hard work are formed. “All modern programs present three ways for preschool children to master the fine arts: perception - performance - creativity. Every child, in my deep conviction, should grow up from childhood in an atmosphere of love, beauty, and creativity. I try to turn joint activities with children with testoplasty into creativity, then real works of art will come out of his hands! While working with dough, I strive to develop in children aesthetic taste, a sense of rhythm, and the ability to understand beauty. While modeling from salt dough, children's vocabulary is activated, because during classes, I ask them to voice their actions. The child sculpts and explains: “The bear has such wide paws because...”. A child can fantasize and can share his knowledge about the world around him with other children. I develop logical thinking, just as before work a child, first of all, must consistently think through a plan of action, think through every detail: what? For what? Why? After completing the work, the children perform their craft, compose a fairy tale, and stage real theatrical performances. When planning my work with children, I use dramatization games (children create fairy tale characters and voice them). Learning to form is not on the basis of “doing according to instructions or a model,” which is what an adult suggests, but to “come up with” your own plans, formulate ideas and realize individual imaginations in activities. The content of the activity is structured in accordance with the thematic planning of the speech therapist, defectologist, and also based on the interests of the students. Children love to make crafts for the holidays (New Year's tiger, Christmas trees, fairy horseshoes); making homemade toys for kids; making heroes based on Russian folk tales; attributes for role-playing games: vegetables, fruits, bakery products to the store. I consider the collective panels to be the pride of the children - “The Seabed”, “Mysterious Space”, “Fruit Basket”.

To create a subject-development environment, I made a card index of games for the artistic and aesthetic development of children. I think the most interesting are “Guess and tell about a folk toy”, “Find out an element of a pattern”, “What does it look like?”, “Complete a craft”, “What doesn’t happen in the world?”, “Think and guess”, “Fantastic heroes”.

During activities, I try to ensure that children say the word “I can’t” as little as possible, I explain that we have gathered here to learn, that I will definitely help. By doing this, I remove the child’s fear that he will not succeed. Sometimes the word “I can’t” covers up the fact that the child does not want to study. Then it is necessary to create motivation in children, arouse interest and desire to study. To create motivation for activity, I use game techniques, through which I develop interest in testoplasty. Often, in order to interest children, I use “animation” and playing with crafts with which they can talk, consult and play. The content of game actions depends on the content of crafts. If it is a bird, then it can “fly”, “peck”, “talk”, “show off to each other”.

When sculpting circus animals, children were trainers and talked about their animals on their own; While playing a game of drawing up an identikit, children took on the role of a “detective” and came up with a positive and negative character, etc. By offering children a role, I arouse interest in the task and a desire to complete it. Acting in character, the child is passionate about his work, inventive, and does his work carefully. And I also take on some role - a sorceress of colors, a sorcerer or a grandmother - a riddle who has forgotten all the fairy tales and cannot tell them to the children.

In order to maintain interest, I used elements of theatricality, surprise moments, game characters (Pinocchio, Dunno, Luntik), and didactic games (for example, “game names”). In joint activities with testoplasty, I activate the child’s speech and replenish his vocabulary. (What are you sculpting now? What will you sculpt later? What kind of ears will you make for the bunny? Why did you give the bear such powerful, strong paws? What kind of mood will your hero have: sad, cheerful, perky, cunning?)

With the help of testoplasty, I tried to create conditions for the creative self-expression of pupils (modeling for a table theater, attributes for role-playing games “Home”, “Shop”; regular exhibitions of children's creativity in kindergarten, in the city children's library, in the library of the Michurinsky Village Council of the Iskitim region , in the museum of the city of Berdsk, etc.).

In my pedagogical activities, applying the principle of integration of learning, I develop the child’s thinking, his knowledge in the field of the formation of elementary concepts in mathematics, orientation in space (divide a piece of dough and count the parts, compare them by size, shape, which parts of the craft are in front, behind, left, right). I develop the child’s speech: I suggest talking about my craft, describing it, giving it a name, composing a story about its adventures. I use crafts in play activities: it is advisable that the child does not immediately take the craft home, but uses it in games for some time. In the group, we collected a collection so that we could show a tabletop theater for our peers. This makes children want to create new characters and develop the plot of a fairy tale or game.

The modeling technique is rich and varied, but at the same time accessible to small children. Modeling is the most tangible form of artistic creativity. The child not only sees what he created, but also touches it, picks it up and changes it as necessary. The main tool in sculpting is the hand. From this point of view, the modeling technique can be assessed as the most environmentally friendly.

To teach a child the technical skills of modeling and develop his fine motor skills, first I take the child’s hands in my own, let him feel the force of pressing on a lump of dough: when rolling the dough into a ball, a stick of varying widths and lengths. The muscles of the palm should be tense, the hands should be straight. Therefore, I suggest that the child roll out the dough on the board. We make all the details only by hand. I immediately teach my child to work carefully. Looking at the sample, children analyze the shape of the parts and their location. Then I remove the sample. Using my piece of dough, I demonstrate sculpting techniques: pulling, pinching, spreading, and others. After the show I put my work away. This is done to prevent the child from copying the product. If a child finds it difficult while working, I show him the required technique on my piece of dough. If independent work is going on, I do not interfere with the child’s work. I can only show you on my piece of dough how to correct the error. When working together, I can pick up a child’s product and, at his request, correct the craft. I teach children how to work with a stack. So that children gain experience and know which side can make a drawing on the dough, a hole, a slot, and cut off the required piece of dough.

I think it is necessary to start by creating conditions in the group - a small corner of creativity. In my group I posted: paints (watercolors, gouache),

colored pencils, felt-tip pens, crayons, wax crayons, various brushes, pieces of foam rubber, scissors, colored and velvet paper. Natural materials: cones, seeds and fruits of various plants, pebbles, nutshells, twigs, dried flowers, cotton wool, sticks, fabric, pieces of cellophane, remnants of woolen threads, plot pictures, postcards, glue, cardboard, buttons, beads, beads, and other waste material. All this is concentrated in different boxes, caskets, and special containers. In the creativity corner, I put on a monthly changing exhibition to introduce folk and applied arts. My main task is to create conditions and provide all this diversity for the creative imagination of children. I can say with confidence that every child finds what he needs to realize his idea.

With the help of dough crafts, communication developed (we visit each other, say polite words to each other); by playing out children's poems and songs with crafts, she instilled moral and ethical values.

The work I have begun has wide boundaries and possibilities, and requires continuation. Work in this direction confirms that artistic and aesthetic development takes shape and develops not only on the basis of productive activity (sculpting from salt dough), but also in the perception of a work of art, in play activities, in the formation of a holistic picture of the world - therefore, I see the prospects of my work the need to organize these activities accordingly and improve them. I plan to develop a program of circle activities on testoplasty.

The use of testoplasty in working with preschool children.

Author: Dmitrieva Elena Nikolaevna

teacher of MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 45" Sarov

The use of testoplasty in working with preschool children.

The use of testoplasty in working with preschool children.

Testoplasty is one of the types of folk applied art. Nowadays, salt dough modeling has become a very popular activity. And this is not surprising. Making salt dough is a great pleasure and joy.

The recipe for this material is so ancient that no one knows when people invented it. Even in those days when in Rus' the New Year was celebrated on September 1, and at the same time weddings were celebrated, it was customary to give figurines made of salt dough. It was believed that any craft made from salt dough found in the house was a symbol of wealth and prosperity in the family. And bread and salt will always be on the table. That is why these figures were often called very simply - “hospitable people”.

Salt dough is an environmentally friendly material, so any child can safely trust a lump of light, soft dough. This lump gives the feeling of something alive, and the sculpting evokes the most pleasant feelings. And it is very well suited for modeling classes, both at home and in kindergarten.

Modeling is one of the types of fine arts in which three-dimensional figures and entire compositions are created from plastic materials.

Modeling is the most tangible form of artistic creativity. The child not only sees what he created, but also touches it, picks it up and changes it as necessary. In modeling, the scale of crafts is not determined by the sheet format, as in drawing and appliqué, or the size of the cubes, as in construction. It depends each time only on the child’s plan, on his skill and individual characteristics. So one child prefers miniature products, while another gravitates towards monumentality.

Modeling is not only an interesting, but also a very useful activity. This hobby brings, in addition to pleasure, invaluable benefits for the health of the body and soul. The work of the fingers and brain is activated and the body and soul are completely relaxed. A person is filled with joy, worries and stress go away.

Work on dough plasticity has a complex effect on the development of a child; in addition to the generally accepted opinion about the development of fine motor skills, we can say that modeling from salt dough contributes to the development of creativity in preschoolers. Modeling from salt dough promotes the development of visual perception, memory, imaginative thinking, instilling manual skills and abilities necessary for successful learning at school. Just like other types of fine art, modeling shapes aesthetic tastes and develops a sense of beauty. Therefore, it can be reasonably assumed that modeling from non-traditional materials has a beneficial effect on the development of the child as a creative personality.

Lesson summary:
“Goldfish.”
Program content:

Continue to strengthen your skills in working with salt dough on a plane, creating an image in half volume.
Achieve expressiveness and unusualness in the execution of a fairy-tale image.
Develop accuracy in work.
Strengthen the ability to determine the subsystem and supersystem of an object.
Form mobility of thinking. Encourage children to fantasize based on changes in shape.

Methods and techniques:

Conversation, explanation, use of an illustration with a picture of a goldfish, use of a riddle, morphological analysis: “Magic path”, D/i “Where can you see it?”, “What could it be, if there is something there?”

Materials:

Blue cardboard, stacks, patterns of geometric shapes (ball, oval, triangle, square), colored sequins. Yellow salted dough, signets. Illustration with the image of a goldfish.

Preliminary work:

Observe the fish in the aquarium, remember the methods of sculpting.

Progress of the lesson:

An illustration of a goldfish (upside down) is placed on the easel.

Educator

:- Guys, I want to play the game “What could it be?”

What could it be if there is a body and a tail?

Children:

(answers)

Educator

: What could it be if there is a body, tail, fins, scales?

Children:

Fish.

Educator

: Right . Guess my riddle and you will find out what kind of fish it is.

Gold, but not a chain.

Floats, but not a boat.

Grants a wish, but not a magic wand.

Children

: Gold fish. (illustration reversed)

Educator:

Guys, where can you find goldfish?

Children:

In the sea, in the aquarium, in fairy tales, books, etc.

Educator:

Which fairy tale is about a goldfish?

Children:

In the fairy tale about the old man and the goldfish.

Educator

: Tell me, who is the author of this fairy tale?

Children

: A.S. Pushkin.

Educator:

That's right, A.S. Pushkin. This year marks his 223rd birthday. Who can tell me why the goldfish in the fairy tale could grant wishes?

Children:

Because it’s magical.

Educator:

There will be a magical holiday soon, what kind?

Children:

New Year!

Educator:

New Year is the most magical holiday on which all wishes come true, and Santa Claus fulfills them. But I think that every child would also like to have a fish - a sorceress for the New Year, in order to be able to make a wish for it. Would you like to make your own goldfish?

Children

: Yes.

Educator: What material do you think we can make a fish from?

Children:

(answers).

Educator:

We will make fish from salt dough. Then we can decorate the beautiful Christmas tree with these fish, so that other children can make their own wishes.

The children sat down at the tables.

Educator

: Your fish may be different and have different parts. Which ones?

Children:

(answers).

Educator:

Today in class we will pay attention to the tail of the fish. The game “Magic Path” will help us with this. The fish will travel along magical paths, and the shape of its tail will change depending on the geometric shape that it encounters. The first thing on the way is a triangle. What shape will the tail take?

Children

: Triangular.

Educator:

What form will be encountered next on the “magic path”? Etc.

Practical part

During work, the teacher reminds how many parts to divide a piece of dough into, what shape the body is (streamlined, similar to an oval). How to decorate a fish. What can scales (sequins) be made from? Children's work.

Analysis of works.

Invite the children to release the fish into the sea (or decorate the Christmas tree with them), and in order for them to become magical, they need to consider how they differ.

Educator:

Guys, what parts of your fish are different?

Children:

(answers).

Educator:

How else are fish different?

Children

: Color of scales, size, etc.

Invite children to make their wish.
Draw children's attention to the fact that fish fulfill only good wishes. He asks the children’s permission if other children can make their own wish when the fish hang on the tree. The use of testoplasty in working with preschool children.

How to make salt dough

In testoplasty, salt dough familiar to all young mothers is used. The composition of the modeling dough is very simple:

300 g flour
300 g salt
200 ml water
1 tbsp vegetable oil (optional)

Mix salt with flour and, stirring the mixture thoroughly, gradually add water. Experienced art therapists recommend using finely ground salt and adding a tablespoon of refined oil to the mixture to make the consistency more elastic. The unused portion of the dough can be stored in the refrigerator until the next session.

You can see how to prepare salt dough and what materials you will need for creativity in this detailed video tutorial:

How to sculpt from salt dough

Dough is an incredibly pliable material from which you can mold anything: from pots and animal figures to panels of various sizes. Therefore, crafts made from salt dough provide a huge scope for imagination, developing skills and creating wonderful things for decoration, games and gifts for each other.

To create the simplest dough products, it is enough to have a rolling pin and a board; for children over three years old and adults, you can stock up on culinary decor and use toothpicks to draw details.

For almost all dough crafts, the workpiece is usually a “sausage” or a “ball”. To create, for example, a little man, a ball is used for the head, and sausages are used to sculpt the body, arms and legs.

Complex shapes can be created from rolled out dough using templates and molds. You can decorate the product with ribbons, beads, leaves or braids made of dough or anything else of the child’s choice. And of course, a special stage is painting the resulting figure.

You can paint crafts made from salt dough with your own hands, both at the modeling stage, and while kneading the dough and after the product has completely dried.

And you can dry crafts made from salt dough at room temperature, in the oven at 50 degrees and in the microwave on the lowest defrost setting. Drying dough products, of course, will take time, but then such a gift will delight its creator and owner for a long time!

How to make casts from salt dough

An example of an art therapy lesson with children

Crafts made from dough can become an independent activity for children of preschool and primary school age. An activity can provide additional educational information, for example, by making an owl from salt dough, telling the child all the interesting facts about this bird. But the big advantage of testoplasty is that modeling itself brings tangible benefits, both to mental processes and psychologically harmonizing consciousness.

On the eve of March 8, I conducted such a lesson with my son. The topic was banal - preparing gifts for teachers with your own hands. Despite the fact that at first I had to persuade him to go sculpt, then I couldn’t stop him! So he went wild, creating crafts one better than the other)))

So we got these 8s with flowers and baskets with fruits and flowers.

As soon as our dough crafts are dry (and they dry in the oven at a low temperature and just in the room), we plan to glue magnetic tape to them so that they become a warm decoration for the refrigerator of our favorite teacher)))

In this video I showed our vision of modeling salt dough for the holiday of March 8:

The video below presents several more master classes on making crafts from salt dough: