Cactus

Good afternoon. Today I want to invite you to make an ever-blooming cactus with your own hands from salt dough and scrap materials.
For this we need:
- Flour.
- Water.
- Salt.
- Dyes or gouache (brown, red, black, green).
- Potty.
- A glass of yogurt.
- Rolling pin.
- A tablet.
- Knife or stack.
- Brush.
- Toothpicks.

First you need to knead the dough. There are many recipes for salt dough, I took the simplest one. 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt (fine) and ¾ cup cold water. Based on this calculation, knead the dough. It should be thick, like dumplings. Take salt, add water, add dye of the desired color. Mix everything, add flour and knead the dough. You can add a little vegetable oil to the dough. I immediately mixed the dough in brown, red, green, black, white and put it in the refrigerator for 3 hours.

After the dough is ready, take the brown dough and roll it out to 0.5 centimeters thick.

Take a pot and wrap it with dough. We bend the edges inward at the top. The bottom also needs to be covered with dough.

Now take the red dough and roll it out. Using a knife or cutting glass, cut out 5 petals. This will be a flower.Take a brush, lightly moisten it with water, lubricate one side of the petal, and press it to the pot. We do the same with the rest of the leaves. Roll a ball of white dough and press it to the center of the flower.

Roll out two ropes from the green dough and make branches for our flower.

Again, take the green dough, roll it out and cut out 4 leaves. We press them to the branches.

The pot is ready. Now let's take care of the cactus. Roll out the green dough and wrap it around a yogurt cup. The principle of operation is the same as with a pot.

Now we need to make small protrusions from which needles will then “grow”. They are very easy to make. Pinch the dough from top to bottom with your fingers. As a result, we should have a vertical relief. You don't have to make it straight, you can make it slightly spiral. We make protrusions at the same distance throughout the cactus.

We plant the cactus in a pot. My cactus fit perfectly into the pot. If your pot turns out to be much larger than the cactus, then simply put the remaining dough into it and feel free to plant your plant in the pot.

Roll out a flagellum from black dough and cover the distance between the cactus and the pot. Thus imitating the earth.

Take toothpicks and use a knife or scissors to cut each of them into small pieces. Then paint the sticks green. These will be the cactus needles.

For now, leave the toothpicks aside and make a flower. Roll out the red dough. We cut out 12 petals from it and glue them in three rows using water and a brush to the top of the cactus. First we glue 5 petals, 4 petals on top, and then 3 petals.

Now roll out a rope of white dough.Use your fingers to make a strip out of it and cut the fringe. We roll it into a tube and attach it to the middle of the flower. In this case, you need to lubricate it a little with water and lightly press it into the middle of the flower.