Lamb dough

Already not far off the new year, and you need to start thinking about gifts that would be nice to give to family and friends. Yes, and decorating your own apartment for the holiday brings many positive emotions and allows you to create an atmosphere of the upcoming celebration. The symbol of the coming year on the Chinese horoscope is a sheep. In this regard, we offer to your attention a master class in which we will create a lamb from a salted dough.

Necessary materials

In order to make such a sheep, we will need:

• flour and salt for the preparation of a salted dough;
• water;
• brush;
• foil for baking or bakery paper;
• toothpick;
• acrylic paints;
• twine or ribbon;
• glue gun.

Instructions

Now that everything is prepared, you can proceed to a detailed description of how to make a lamb.

1. First you need to knead a salty dough. To do this, fill a glass of flour and half a cup of salt with hot water and knead it well. To make the mass more elastic, you can add a tablespoon of vegetable oil. And for greater strength - to add a little wallpaper paste or PVA.
2. Roll the dough into a layer about 5 mm thick and cut out the base of the body for the sheep.
3. From the next thinner layer, cut the narrow strips and fold them into spirals.
4. Using a brush, lubricate the body of the body with water. Then, with a toothpick, transfer the twisted strips to the base. In this way we sculpt the sheep "wool".
5. From the remaining test, form the missing parts of the body: the head, ears and feet. Glue them to the body of the sheep also with the help of water.
6. Transfer the figure to a baking sheet covered with parchment baking paper or foil. In order to head baked in the necessary position under it, you can put crumpled baking paper. The legs of the lamb should be baked without gluing to the body, as they will be attached to the ropes.
7. To bake a hand-made article - the lamb needs to be kept for two hours at a temperature of 80 ° C, until the surface of the dough lightly blushes.
8. Now the ready and cooled figure remained only to decorate. With a dry brush and a small amount of white acrylic, walk along the surface of the "wool".
9. Then draw a small brush with a fine brush.
10. Paws baked separately, glued to a string or a ribbon with an adhesive gun. Instead of the paws of the test, you can use beads.
11. With the help of an adhesive gun attach to the body lamb paws and a loop for hanging.
12. This pretty sheep from the salty dough is ready!