Tinker knights and castles
With salt dough you can easily and cheaply make knights and castles and thus avoid plastic models in the children's room and at the same time promote the creativity of the little ones.
What you need:
- 2 glasses of flour
- 2 glasses of salt
- 1/2 glass of water
- 2 tbsp wallpaper paste
- Hairspray
- Easter egg colors
Make castles and figures from salt dough
- With salt dough you can design your own toys easily and cheaply. Castles and the right accessories such as knights can also be tinkered quickly yourself.
- Salt dough can be modeled as easily as modeling clay. With simple ingredients that you usually have at home, plus a few colors, you will quickly have a castle with knights and other accessories.
- The wallpaper paste causes the dough becomes harder and you can model better with it. Make sure your children don't eat the dough. It tastes inedible and is also dangerous due to the addition of paste.
- To color the dough, you can simply paint the finished objects with Easter egg or food coloring.
- Or you can make colored salt dough from natural substances. For example, adding cocoa will make the dough brown or jelly powder green. By adding the juice beetroot, the dough turns red, and ink turns blue.
- Whether you decide to color the dough or to paint it later is a matter of taste. The fact is that the colored dough fades when baking.
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Little tricks for crafting castles and knights
- When it comes to modeling the castles and knights, your creativity is required. As a model, you can, for example, orient yourself to castles from toy manufacturers such as Playmobil or Mattel. Depending on the size of the castle, you will need to use aids such as small wooden sticks, which you need to support the castle walls.
- When handicrafting the knights, more sensitivity is necessary, as the figures are divided into small parts and have subtleties such as the knight's armor or the contours of the face must be carefully crafted.
- To do this, you can use aids such as the tip of a knife, the impression of a spoon handle or whatever other ideas you have.
- After you have made the figures and castles, the salt dough needs to dry for a day or two. It is best to place it in a warm place.
- Then the objects go into the oven. Put them on parchment paper. You can also brush the castles and figures with egg yolk or condensed milk to make them shine after baking.
- In total, you should expect a baking time of five hours. It is worthwhile to gradually increase the temperature of the oven. Start at 60 degrees for the first hour. In the second with 80 degrees, in the third with 100 degrees, in the fourth with 120 degrees and in the fifth with 140 degrees. This increase ensures that the dough does not crack.
- When you've taken the items out of the oven, let them cool down. Then you can spray hairspray over them so that they are preserved and not retain moisture, which too Mould leads.
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