Salt Dough- Foot prints, hand prints and other creations- Children's Activities

Salt Dough Recipe!

2x Cups of Flour (Plain flour)
1x Cup of Salt (Table salt is best)
1x Cup of Water
1 table spoon of oil (sunflower, vegetable, olive)
Cinnamon (As much as you want for the nice smell)

Ok so the flour, salt and water are the essentials, but the oil helps for a smooth finish when making in prints and the Cinnamon makes it smell gorgeous! They are both optional but I use them every time!

This is really easy and cheap to make!

Instructions

1) Flour and salt in first so not to make the cup sticky
2) water in second
3) stir it all up, I usually use a fork to get rid of any lumps
4) add the oil, you can use more or less depending on your mix, makes it a lot easier to play with
5)add the Cinnamon, I use about 5 table spoons
6)Stir it up until it looks like dough, if it is really sticky add some more flour, if its not sticky enough add some water, but the above recipe is usually spot on. Knead for a few minutes.
7) get playing and creating, you can put flour on work surfaces so that it doesn't stick.
8) preheat the oven to 100c/ gas mark 1/4 if oven drying

Ideas

Try rolling some out until it is about an inch thick and push your child's hand or foot into it to make a beautiful mold, if its not perfect, squish it, roll into a ball and roll it out again. When you are finished, put your creations onto a baking tray.

Drying

Place in oven at 100C (Gas mark 1/4) until hard, this usually takes about 2 hours for a small mold but can take longer. Once it is hard throughout, turn the oven off and leave your creations in to cool down. You can also leave your creations to dry in open air, this takes a couple of days.

Once they have cooled completely, they can be painted! I use Acrylic paints.

A bit of varnish gives them a beautiful shiny finish!

Beautiful!

Let me know below how you get on so any tweaks can be made, and add your pictures too, I'd love to see!!!