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A great way for your little ones to make their own decorations, especially for Christmas. They can give them as gifts.


Material

  • 4 cups plain flour
  • 1 cup salt
  • 1.5 cups warm water

Method

  1. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
  2. Knead for 10 minutes until the dough feels smooth.
  3. Cut out a range of shapes using cutters.
  4. Bake for 1.5-2hrs in the oven at 100 degrees or until they have dried out.
  5. Paint and add glitter (if you dare!)

Notes

A great way to make a personalised christmas gift for the grandparents.



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  • Shell24
    • 19 Dec 2017
      3:08 pm

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  • WE love to do this activity !

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  • We like to make dinosaur fossils with salt dough too!

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  • We’ve made salt dough Xmas decorations for the tree

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  • Love this idea. So easy and creative.

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  • Such a great activity idea.


    • I remember making something similar when I was young.

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  • Will do this definitely… looks so simple and cute.

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  • We love making Salt Dough creations.
    We did use a cheaper salt product once and the children didn’t like the course texture.

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  • This is good to have, thank you

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  • You can do so many things with salt dough

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  • thanks so much the kids are going to love doing easter craft

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  • Oh wow. So simple yet effective.

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  • These are great and you can make so much stuff out of them!


    • We made some keepsakes for Grandma out of the kid’s handprints

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  • What a great idea! I remember doing this as a child. Would be great to do with my son!

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  • I made my baby’s hand and foot print in salt dough and it is still great – did take a long time to fully dry out though

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  • We used to make this when we were kids. Also nice to make Christmas tree decorations from salt dough. It stays longer good when you cover it with a bit varnish after painting.

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  • great idea for a craft activity. Thanks for sharing.

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  • I made a batch and was surprised to find how long it lasted without drying out

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  • This is always a fun activity for the little ones and then you can bake and keep them for quite a long time, their own little treasures can even be hung on the xmas trees.

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  • If you use gluten free flour it won’t matter if anybody licks their skin at all if they have wheat allergy.

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  • Thats a great idea. Will get started on these for xmas!

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