Here is a quick and easy stay home activity: How to Make Salt Dough. And it’s inexpensive too! They last a long time (or until you drop one). This is part of a continuing Parent Club series on Gifts Kids Can Make. Here’s how to make salt dough…
You will need:
- 1/2 cup fine salt
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup of water
- Cookie sheet
- Non-stick liner
- Pre-heated oven 200C
(you can double recipe to make more)
Mix salt, flour and water in a bowl. I recommend, once it comes together, to use your hands and knead it until it becomes a dough.
Line a cookie sheet with a rubber liner (or any non-stick paper). Roll bits of salt dough into balls. We pressed the balls down to make snowmen.
Related: Parent Club’s Top 5 Gifts From A Jar
Bake the salt dough in the 200C pre-heated oven for 2 hours (actually, I baked them for an hour…then turned the oven off and forgot about them ’till the next day – worked fine). Should you want to hang them – poke a hole (use a straw) in the top of each decoration before you bake them.
Once cooked, use a permanent marker (on the back side of the salt dough) to mark the occasion and date.
You could use paint to decorate – we opted for markers and glitter glue. Then we covered them with podgy (a type of mod podge). From measuring to pouring to sculpting to decorating these were 100% kids-hands-on.
will try this with the kiddies! thanks for the recipie
OH WOW you totally just brought back memories of my childhood! I used to make creations with salt dough alllll the time! Thanks for the blast from the past!
Classic n’est pas?
Our kids and I are going to do this today!!!!
Great fun idea to do with my son!
Looks yummy!
What a great idea! Very easy to boot! Thanks for sharing
Great idea! I remember making these as a kid!
I have made clay ornaments with the kids but never salt dough. This one is going in my book.
I made these on the weekend with the kids and we made stars to hang on tree and around the house, and did hand and feet prints too with them!
You just made my day!
I remember doing this when I grew up. Great reminder to share the experience with the kids…. much fun!
I’m glad to have found this post today! I’m going to make this dough and make decorations with my grandkids for Christmas! Thanks for the recipe!