These salt dough models are so easy to make with only a few pantry items needed. They will keep your kids so busy modelling and decorating.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of water
1/4 cup of salt
1/2 cup of plain flour
This doesn't sound like it will make a lot of dough but it actually makes plenty once rolled out. You could double the ingredients if you have more than one child doing this activity.
Step one:
Wash your hands
Step two:
Place salt and flour in a bowl and mix together (you may like to sieve the flour to make it smoother)
Step three:
Add the water into the flour/salt mixture slowly and stir. Eventually, it will form a dough (keep extra water and flour on hand to add if necessary to get the consistency right).
Step four:
Knead into a dough on a floured board and then roll with a rolling pin to get the thickness you want (we found 1/2 an inch worked fine).
Step five:
Use cookie cutters to turn them into shapes or roll into letters/numbers and arrange on baking paper.
Step six:
Bake in a warm oven 130c for around 2 hours. Afterwards, take them out and leave to cool for as long as possible (we left ours out overnight).
Step seven:
Decorate. We used acrylic paints and they needed a few coats, so after painting leave them to try before applying more paint.
This activity was super easy to make and due to the baking of 2 hours, cooling and drying off in between coats of paint, it stretched this activity out for a few days. Enjoy!
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